Yikes! I am so behind with my blogging. Forgive me. I do have a good excuse though (CakeWalk...we'll get to that later!). So, I have to back up a few weeks and share a post about the fabulous time I had with my mom and sweet friends from college.
So, my dear friend Whitney is preggers, and we have been planning her baby shower since she shared the news she was expecting when we were all together for our Chicago girls weekend back in November.
Our fabulous custom stationer, Courtney, came up with the cutest theme celebrating Whit and the upcoming arrival of the apple of her eye.
As soon as we set the apple theme, I knew I wanted to do apple cake pop favors. My mom decided to fly into Nashville and spend some time with B and me before road tripping it to St. Louis for the shower. We had THE best time. I don't think I could have pulled off the cake pops without her. Of course I am my mother's daughter and we definitely waited to start the cake pops at 8:30pm Friday night before needing to be on the road to STL at 8am the next morning. Let's just say at 1am we were still decorating apples, had not packed and had not slept. Finally at 3am we decided to hit the hay before we were up at 7am loading the car. 5 hours of driving in the rain later, we made it to St. Louis.
We had the best time there! We stopped off at Court's sister's house where they were hosting a Marie Antoinette themed bridal shower for their soon to be sister-in-law. Court asked me to make the cupcake cake bites for their favors. Didn't they turn out so cute?
Check out Court's blog to see the rest of the details from that shower...
After catching up with the Callahan clan, Mom and I shopped 'til we dropped for all things CakeWalk. We finally checked into the hotel and rallied to get ready to meet the Ott/Manda crew. We had a fabulous mother-daughter dinner with Whit, Lynn and Shelby at the yummy restaurant Court recommended, Sugo's. Delicioso! After a fabulous meal and many, many laughs (I think the restaurant was ready for us to leave!) we headed back to the hotel to crash.
So, now check out how well the shower came together!
Court did a fabulous job with the invitations and all things paper. How cute are all the tags?
Auntie Ellen's apple butter was quite a hit!
Ellen's adorable banner!
The beautiful mom-to-be
With her hostesses
Could not have pulled it off without Court!
Whit gave us adorable Kate Spade bangles...
They were engraved 'Hot to Trot' on the inside. :)
My mom was such a big help!
A successful shower honoring our dear friend! Now we just cannot wait to meet the pea! :)
