Celebrating baby Parker

Our family loves babies. I mean L.O.V.E.S. babies. My aunt Ann from Atlanta told her co-worker that she was going to a baby shower for one of her (bazillion) nieces, and he said, "Man, your family is like rabbits!" Not that far from the truth... but when your mom is one of 9 kids, and most of them had 2-3 kids, and now most of them are having babies... well, you see how these things happen! Sweet baby Parker is only the 3rd grandbaby in our immediate family (#1 and #2 belong to me), so you can imagine just how spoiled this baby already is, and he's not even here yet!

This is the diaper tricycle that I made, courtesy of a fantastic Pinterest find.  Thanks to Kamley Lane for a great tutorial!

I meant to take another picture of the table once we got all of the food out, but these were the basics.  We also had fruit salad, and a couple egg casseroles, thanks to my mom and mother-in-law!

Cupcakes!  I made the chocolate toppers and could not believe how EASY they were!  I used the molds and little chocolate wafers (already colored) from Michael's.  Seriously, so easy.  Don't be scared - try it!

When Erin & Jeff first told their parents about the baby, he was the size of a blueberry, so that's what they nicknamed him until he had a real name... hence the random bowl of blueberries ;)

The cookies were my mom's idea - I was just the implementer!  Simple round sugar cookies, pipe the blue water icing, flood it to make it nice and smooth, add a goldfish, and use white icing to stick the little "bubbles."  Ta da!

I had to "girl-ify" the new sunroom a little for the shower :)  Todd wanted to make sure the flowers weren't a permanent addition!

Katie and Erin (left and middle) are friends from middle school or high school?  And Meredith (on the right) is our baby sister.

Two of the aunts - Mary & Jane

Eninbaby (her nickname from forever ago)

Katie (middle & high school), Emily (middle school through college), and Angela (college... she introduced Erin & Jeff) - the girls are all due about 8 weeks apart, all with boys!

Aunt Erin and Kate, who was showing her true colors during the shower.  Hmph.

Almost wine-thirty!

Beautiful afghan by our parents' sweet friend, Donna

Paint it Purple!

I love this little mischevious look... what's even funnier is that Aunt Jane (holding Kate), is pretty feisty, and Megan (our cousin looking on), was pretty feisty at that age too.  How fitting that they're all together!

Erin's friend, Angela made this adorable diaper cake!

Who doesn't love baby clothes?!

A few of our aunts and uncles bought the entire travel system

My mother-in-law, Vivian, got her this awesome exersaucer!

Kate being Kate

One of our oldest friends, Kim (we've all been friends since before we could talk), and her newest baby boy, Harrison!