Mom did so great with every little detail! One thing I loved is we used some of the table decorations from our wedding. I loved it!!!
Those blocks say "Sweet Baby Girl". Mom and Joe made those - cut out the blocks, sanded every single one and then decorated them. These will go in baby girl's nursery!
The banner at the top was also made by mom - you can't see it well in this pic - it also says "Sweet Baby Girl" and is absolutely adorable!!
Gotta have the koozies!
We had so many family, neighbors, and family friends join us to celebrate. I wish I would have done a better job at getting pictures of everyone. We also had a couple of friends travel to see us, Izik & Matt, Cristie & Josh all traveled from Illinois and Carrie traveled from Waterloo. We really appreciate you all making the trip and celebrating with us!
Matt, Izik, Bart, Momma & baby, Cristie & Josh
Carrie and I
My friend of 24 years and my MOH, Crissy came to join the festivities.
Soon to be mommy and daddy - holy moly are we ready for this???
Maybe I should caption this "the calm before the storm"...
Mom also planned for a couple games to keep things interesting. The first was a dressing of the baby contest. Bart had a team of 5 guys and I had a team of 5 girls - we had 5 pieces of baby clothing (diaper, outfit, socks, hat and swaddle blanket) and had to see who could dress the baby the fastest. I was so impressed with the guys! The ladies barley won and to be honest, there was a little table cloth in our swaddle - the guys were fantastic. I was very proud of Bart for his quick diapering skills - however now that I know he can change a diaper...
The second game was a chugging beer out of a bottle contest. There were 3 heats and then the 3 finalists did one last chug to get one champion. This was HILARIOUS - my cheeks hurt soooo bad from laughing!! The first heat we left the nipples of the bottles very small and watched them struggle for a good 15ish minutes - mean? maybe! but soooooo funny!!!
Heat 1: the boys and Goober
Izik was the winner of Heat 1!
Heat 2: the ladies - Jenn (2nd from right won this heat)
Heat 3: now this was interesting! We have Jay, Rick and Joe (seasoned beer chuggers), Jess and Matt. I thought for sure poor Matt and Jess would get smoked... but NOPE Matt took this one!
And the finals: Izik, Matt and Jenn.
And the winner is.... Izik! He's kind of a celebrity around these parts, first he married us and then he won the beer out of a bottle chugging contest. He's kind of a big deal!
It was such a fun day and so wonderful to see everyone!! A huge thank you to Mom and Joe for throwing this awesome party and to everyone for coming to celebrate and spoil our little lady! She officially has more clothes than I do!!
