Katelyns Bridal Shower!

This last Saturday was my sister Katelyn's  bridal shower. She is such a wonderful person & we were so excited to help celebrate her and Travis! We were surrounded by friends, family and most importantly love! 

I really, REALLY lucked out with the group of ladies Katelyn picked to stand by her side as she says 'I do'! They were beyond helpful, easily relied on and fun!! We had such a blast planning the party & watching the details come together! 

Once we picked a date Katelyn had few requests, but mostly she didn't want to know anything about the shower. She left that allllllll up to us! We knew we didn't want to repeat her wedding colors, but we still wanted decor she would like. We tried to reflect both of their tastes (thankfully we did because this became more co-ed last minute, thanks to one too many delicious drinks around the fire Friday night!). We went with fun colors like pinks and teals, with white to keep it light and airy too. It was preppy and feminine, with a little rustic, country touches- just like Katelyn and Travis! The shower also had a very special theme, each guest was sent a recipe card and brought a recipe for Katelyn. Her future father in law is an amazing carpenter and builder, so he hand crafted this AMAZING recipe box for her! & went the extra mile and built Travis a wooden cooler holder as well! They are beautiful! We are ao lucky to have such talent in this family!

 I wish I would have taken photos during the games! Katelyn requested that the games not be typical games that people try to sit out of! So, we had two easy prize games: one was a jar of panties that people had to guess how many were in there! For the next, we handed out necklaces and guests could not say 'Katie, Travis or wedding' if they did other guests stole their necklaces, the one with the most necklaces won! We also played wedding charades! Katelyn acted out the words and the two teams shouted out guesses! It was so fun! Our last game did not go as smoothly, but we created a playlist of popular love songs and guests wrote down the name of the song, most correct guesses won! We also quizzed Katelyn and Travis about each other's families, for every wrong answer they had to put a piece of bubble gum in their mouth! That was funny!! Though Travis would argue not that fun! ;) 

Ok enough words, here's the pictures: 

Hand painted invitations and hand written cards that went inside the invites!

The aisle up to their house

We created an 'aisle' for guests to walk down

Homemade banners and babies breath on their fireplace

Don't worry, I cut that string before people arrived! 

Katelyn has a sweet tooth, only rivaled by her nephew Easton, so cotton candy was the perfect favor!

Prefood set up, hand made cards labeling each food. 

Panty guess game, an apron for guests to sign, punch, drinks and her handmade recipe box!

Unsigned and waiting for guests!

Beautifully crafted! Thank you Big Rob!

Katelyn looked beautiful, as usual!

Their gorgeous house was the perfect place for people to gather!

I don't care if she hates this picture, I think she looks great!

The bridesmaids-minus one who had a baby a week ago!! Katie G, me, Katelyn, Morgan, Heidi & Hailey. We missed you Rachel!

Sisters!

Bride to be and her sweet tooth twin!

The Princess Nika sums up how we felt at the end of the day: EXHAUSTED! 

Overall the whole thing was a hit! It was a lot of work, but well worth the look on their faces when they saw everything come together!  

Kidfree Suspicious vs With Kid Suspicious (&unrelated pictures)

Wet sticky things. Pretty gross and suspicious. But when you have kids, not really that weird. Because guess what, it's probably what you think it is. And it probably was old applesauce or juice or the dreaded P to the OOP. 

Silence. Not suspicious when you are kidless. Quite enjoyable really. But once you have kids silence is not golden. It's usually covered in mud, creeping across your freshly mopped floor trying to drag the plants indoors. 

Thumps in the morning/day/afternoon/night. Usually pretty suspicious regardless. But it seems that with out kids there is always something going thump. Currently at 9:14 I'm listening to the 1 year old thump-thump-thumpity his foot against the wall while he lays in his crib. There is always someone jumping or running or falling in our house. Even at night. 

Screaming. Highly suspicious when you are kid free, generally not a good sign when a kid free home houses kids screams, no bueño. Even in our house where I try to enforce a 'please don't scream unless you are on fire/bleeding/not gonna make it' clause. There is still A LOT of screaming that happens in our house. Screaming because they are too close to each other. Screaming because they are hungry. Screaming because they want to scream. 

Losing your phone. Suspicious always, the difference is no kids: crapcrapcrap I hope I didn't leave it at the bar. Is it in my purse, shhttt it's on silent of course!! Where are you phone!!! With kids: it's in the toilet. Guaran-fridgen-teed.