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Im 30 yrs old very happy married to a wonderful man (Nathan) i have a 7yr old son (Lochlan) and one on the way! We live in a town called Davistown. Im an aussie that use to live in the states! But have recently returned back to Australia! And im VERY passionate about cooking and my family!

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Friday, May 6, 2011

~My Beautiful Baby Shower~


Man you've no idea how busy we were leading up to this shower :) Loche turned 8 (i know! 8!!) on the friday b4 the shower! We allowed him to have a few mates over for cake and junk food lol he had 7 mates over they ate and played xbox and played with the 116 nerf bullets! They shot everything and anything lol... Boys will be boys! So his party started at noon and the kids were here till 4:30-5 once they had all left Nathan and i rushed around packed a bag and headed for the train station. We were headed down to Sydney for the night to stay with my best friend and her fiance as the next day i was to attend a big bridal show :) prior to that We headed to the awesome flemmington markets and picked up awesomely fresh fruit and flowers for the baby shower! Needless to say it was a very BUSY day :) i was dead tired but i pushed on! When we were done we headed back to Danielle's house and packed and i mean PACKED their lil car up with all sorts of things for the trip back up the coast...lol we all managed 2 grown men Danielle and a myself and my big ole pregger belly squished into the car and headed home! We got home unpacked the car and started working out the plan for sunday! Food set up and decorating! I am so grateful to Danielle, Alasdair and my mum. 
My colours as u can see were lime green and watermelon pink :)
The cup cakes were awesome Ally made and decorated them! He was amazing!
My mama covering over the food :)
Some of the gorgeous flowers we baught at the markets! It was amazing to find lime green flowers!
Some of the gifts :)
Greeting Aunty Jan :) 
Here is the spread of food :) We had a few different types of sandwiches that Ally made up, mum turned some of the vanilla cup cakes into butterfly cup cakes(cup tops out cut tops in hlf to form wings add jam to the middle of cup cake and a spoonful of whipped cream then wings reattached!) We had all sorts of fresh fruit (watermelon, strawberries, rock melon, red and green grapes fresh pineapple and mandarins!) My mum made a huge chocolate double layered cake with jam n cream threw the middle of it and then we had all kinds of teas and coffee!
We also had lollies :) jelly babies, and raspberries as well as eclairs!
Yep how delish do these look?!?! Made from scratch! Did i mention Ally is a chef :P  these cup cakes were AH MAY ZING! Ally is a super star!
We had lots of cup cakes...LOL 
Over the weeks mum and i had baught all kind of neat things to decorate these puppies with :) i think the lil candy penguins were one of the cutes additions!
Here is the wonderful Danielle whom made all the yummy cups of coffee for the girls :) 
Yup thats me we've already seen this pic tho ;) 
The diaper cake :) so cute!
These Lillie's were amazing..they lasted almost 3 weeks every single flower opened as well! 
All the wonderful baby stuff stored in Loches room :)
Yup LOTS of PINK!
I cant wait to get to use the bumbo seat! :) Its lilac in colour too!
So we had planned on using cloth diapers but for the time being we will be using up the heap of newborn huggies we received! We shall move onto cloth diapers when Aj gets a lil bigger :)
Aunty Danielle and Uncle Ally baught her her first pair of red tag levis 's lol this skirt is SO cute!
Here is the "Sleepy Wrap" I cant wait to try this baby out :) i have practiced putting this on a few times with a teddy bear n shown Nathan how to do it as well :)
Got one of these we will see how much it gets used though :)  its a great idea BUT i gotta remember to get it out and use it!

Here is one of my fav baby shower gifts :) when i seen it at babies r us it was one of the first things i placed on the registry! And i was so excited when i recieved it as i really didnt think anyone would want to spend that much on it :)

We received so many wonderful things Aj is pretty much set :) we got some beautiful flannel crib sheets which we hadnt even thought about purchasing and matching blankets as well :) Aj also go some very beautiful outfits as well! I didnt take photos of everything it would have taken days! LOL

Aj also got her first car! LOL :)