a yankee affair

On Sunday Taylor and I went to Candice & Morgan's jack & jill shower in Marietta and enjoyed some pre-wedding time with the bridal party and family. Morgan's mom, Lin, planned the shower based on Morgan's beloved baseball team: the New York Yankees.

In honor of playoffs (and the wedding week of course :), I thought I would share a few photos from the evening. Enjoy!

One of my favorite parts about weddings is savoring all the fun conversation with friends as we get older (i.e., busier) and building memories that I know we will always cherish.

The boys also played some Yankee trivia and I am proud to say that I am married to a Yankee trivia all-star. More importantly, I'm proud to be married to someone with such great friends.

xoxo

the baby shower

As promised, I wanted to share some images from the baby shower! Amelia did a fantastic job with the food- we had (1) a crudites tray with carrots, celery and sweet potato chips paired with a tasty yogurt dill dip, (2) tasty meatballs from Trader Joe's with a homemade Aioli sauce, (3) pear, kiwi & watermelon fruit kabobs, and (4) brie & goat cheese with fig spread, grapes & crackers.

Instead of a game, we had guests create their own onesies for baby Lucy. I originally saw the idea on The Sweetest Occasion.

Shannen is such a cute mom-to-be. 

A few other details from the day...

And to round it all up, Amelia put on a little fashion shoot with her onesie!

We are so excited for the Malutinok family (who are also Normaltown-ers!) and can't wait for baby Lucy to get here!!

Thanks for being such a wonderful friend, Shannen!

over the weekend

Love the bunting! And I'm sure it's easy to make with a bee stencil & some black spray paint. Saw it on The Sweetest Occassion via Style Me Pretty. 

Yikes is it already Tuesday? This thing just got started and I'm behind on posts. Over the weekend I went to see my parents, watched UGA clinch a sweet victory over those "gatahs" and worked on a fun little project...baby shower invitations :) My good friend Shannen is having a little girl in a bout a month and I'm co-hosting a shower for her in a couple weeks. The theme is "honeybee" so I've been bouncing around the web trying to find some decor inspiration for the soiree...

Homemade honey favors. Again from here via here.

Simple flowers with a touch of fall. From Pinterest via you guessed it- here.

Pom poms are a must- perhaps as a garland over the fire place.
Photo from Martha Stewart.

We probably won't have a "game" but I love the idea of teaming up to design a one-zie with iron-ons like this (but girly of course):

Photo from here.

And maybe some bee quotes here and there like:

"If I was a flower growing wild & free

All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee"

-Barry Louis Polisar, All I Want Is You

I'll post a picture of the invitation later, but for an idea- the look came from here. Have a fancy Tuesday!