baby shower, at last.

two weeks later...

i processed the photos from bristyl's sweet baby shower.

i started babysitting bristyl when i was twelve and she was five.

i couldn't believe she was old enough to run off to college.

let alone get married.

and i fell on the floor with the happy dance when i found out she made a baby!

{how bizarre, how bizarre: i knew joy - bristyl's mom - as a pregnant mom to her three youngest kids. fast foward 17 years and we've got a pregnant bristyl on our hands!  a pretty pregnant, may i say.}

there's no one more fit for the duty as baby shower host than the lifetime babysitter.

i started planning a summer time, outside, under the trees baby shower as soon as i heard the news.  in january.

and this is what i came up with:

red. orange. peachy pink. yellow

dessert bar included:

creamy lemon bars

tarty rhubarb squares

berry fruit cups with creamy lemon curd

sugar cookies with buttercream frosting

dipped marshmallows

clementine, grapefruit + blackberry izze drinks

and sweet jenna created the invites. seriously, i owe her my life.

paper lanterns, leftover from bestie jen's wedding hung from the trees above the dessert bar and all the cousins decorated the surrounding trees branches with mini tissue paper pom poms. 

cupcakes in a jar as take home favors.

marshmallows + dipping chocolate + extreme sprinkles + pixi stix = i can't imagine a more sugarier combination of sugariness.  disgusting.  but they were pretty.  and they matched.

joy laughed at me after i turned down so many of her offers of help... "because that doesn't match"

i made sure the game playing pencils matched the napkins, which matched the ice bin, which matched the dessert trays {and the desserts!}, which matched the tissue paper hanging from the trees.

i couldn't help myself.

good friends + family gathered around on blankets + chairs to eat and laugh and lo-o-o-o-ve.

joy's going to be a grandma.... does she look like a grandma to you?  no.  not possible............

baby london will be well dressed, there is no arguing that.

and bristyl is well loved.... especially by ME!

now, i'm ready for that pretty baby to make her appearance!