11.26.2011: Paisley's AZ Baby Shower

On Saturday, we had planned a big AZ baby shower for little Paisley. She is only a few months old now, and you usually have baby showers much closer to your due date, but this was the only opportunity for the AZ folks to have a gathering with Vince & Sarah.  So, it worked out perfect!!  Christina helped us "host" it and we had it in our clubhouse at our complex. We made a big dinner of Italian food, lots of apps, baby bundt cakes for dessert, and of course great drinks.  The Champagne punch was a hit and something I could seriously drink everyday!  (Probably a good thing I only know how to make it in bulk....ie, not conducive for anything but a party!

Vince Jr & Sarah got a ton of great gifts...mostly cute girlie clothes!!  They got a few things from their gift registry as well as had a lot of stuff delivered directly to their home.  We had suggested that guests bring a children's book for Paisley to start her book collection as well.  It was a pretty good turnout of books!  She will have fun reading them all someday!  We all played a few fun traditional baby shower games....Baby Food Tasting, Dirty Diaper Guessing, and the kids did a Bottle Drinking Contest...which they love (and spent the rest of the night drinking out of their bottles).

The whole day/night worked out well even though the getting ready part was super rushed! Felt like everything was very last minute!  Oh well, it all came together nicely!  Seemed like everyone had a good time.  Here is our group picture, even though quite a few people had left by the end of the night.