A "Little Man" Baby Shower

My bff, Christa is having a baby. She is due right around Christmas time and is having a BOY (along with everyone else in our ward). I have been planning her baby shower for months and we finally had it last Saturday. I'd say it was almost exactly what I had envisioned with everyone pulling through on their assignments (even Becky coordinating the bowl she brought stuff in - I died). The whole thing was great. Everyone is now slightly more aware of my bossy/controlling tendencies but hopefully they still like me. We decided to run with the theme, "Christa's Little Man" and put bowties on everything, we also wanted to emphasize the fact that it is Fall and harvest time so we did all harvest colors.

I went over the night before and we started mulling some cider in a crock pot which meant the apartment smelled like Christmas when I went back the next morning - I need to mull cider every night, I swear.

I had so much fun planning this whole thing! So many thanks go to all who helped out, Becky, Julie, Kaela, Anne Marie, Alli, and Yuhi, it would not have turned out without all of you!!

The invite

Worth the trek to Hell's Kitchen that morning.

Hot cider station, complete with whipped cream, caramel sauce, and cinnamon sticks.

For favors we took a page out of Mormon wedding receptions and had a candy bar. 

So I made the dipping sauces - Caramel, Raspberry, and Chocolate and there was a TON left over.

Not a good thing to have in my home... 

Yeah, we forced everyone to play the poopy diaper game, and it was FUN. 

This book got the best "AWWWW" response from everyone.

Oh New Yorkers... 

She was actually talking about how cute they were...that's not a "what is this?" face. 

Charity knitted that for the little man. 

Her talent makes me ill. 

Let's all guess who that gift is from? 

Christa and I bonded over our obsession love for HP. 

Ridiculous trying to find yellow striped straws. 

Luckily, Etsy always comes through.