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Vera’s Fifth Birthday Party

August 6, 2015 by Aliesha

On Saturday we celebrated Vera’s birthday (early) with both sets of grandparents and a couple of uncles! I wanted to go ahead and have her birthday celebration early since my energy is waning each week. We’ll still have a special day on her actual birthday though!

It was so nice to have Tad’s parents, my parents, and my brothers here with us for the low-key party.

I know Vera felt very loved by everyone!

We had a taco salad bar which was AWESOME. We’ve been eating leftovers all week!

I found some really cute Daniel Tiger printables to help make her party special!

Of course I made our favorite chocolate cake recipe, per Vera’s request! She also requested a banner on the cake, sprinkles, and a “5” candle!

Smiles with MiMi

Too distracted for pictures!

Hugs for Grammy

Ready to blow out the candle!

We’re so thankful for our happy, spunky Vera and we can hardly believe she’s about to turn five!

Baby Apricot’s Surprise Shower!

July 22, 2015 by Aliesha

On Monday night, my friends threw me a surprise baby shower for Baby Apricot! The entire shower was so incredibly sweet and beautiful!

I loved the Baby Apricot bunting banner!

Everyone got a chance to predict our baby’s birthday and gender, as well as write notes of encouragement for me to read during labor (how sweet!!).

The girls each picked a color of ink and stamped footprints on the calendar day when they think Apricot will arrive! We pretty much have the first two weeks of September blocked off, so someone will be right!

The food table was gorgeous! (And, of course, the food was delicious!)

There were so many adorable touches, like this cutlery holder and the baskets of apricots!

One of my friends has a cookie business and she made these precious apricot sugar cookies!

They even made Apricot Lemonade for us to drink, as well as coffee and sweet tea.

I felt so incredibly blessed to be surrounded by friends who wanted to help me celebrate the birth of my fourth baby! Their kindness was so overwhelming. I don’t have a picture of it (I think Whitney got one!), but they all surprised me with the gift of a double stroller! We can’t wait to use it! Tad helped me assemble it last night.

Oh, and did I mention that Whitney (hostess), on the left below, is having her baby in about two weeks? Our babies will be such good friends!

God has been so faithful in providing friendship and community at our church, and I’m incredibly grateful.

Thank you, sweet friends (including those who weren’t able to make it to the shower!), for helping me celebrate Baby Apricot’s (hopefully) soon arrival!

April’s Gold and Floral Bridal Shower

July 14, 2015 by Aliesha

This past weekend I had the privilege of celebrating with my friend April as she prepares to get married in a little over a month!

Our life group threw her a shower and I had so much fun putting together the gold and floral details for the celebration!

April is beautiful inside and out, and we all are SO excited for her and Adam to get married at the end of August. She looked so lovely at the shower (as always!).

Gold vases were spray painted and filled with silk flowers. I sprinkled gold sequins and gold sea shells on the table. The pink ruffle is crepe paper sewn and gathered.

We had lots of sweet and girly food! Macarons are a craze for a reason, and we loved sampling several different flavors. These are from Trader Joe’s (you have to try the fig ones).

We had rice krispie treats.

And chocolate-dipped pretzel rods.

Vera helped me make this cheese platter (Colby cheese cubes and Monterey Jack cheese cubes with blackberries).

We also had spinach artichoke dip and crackers.

My favorite part was the chicken salad on rolls! I could eat that every day.

I didn’t get a picture of the drinks, but we had an assortment of sparkling juices (lemonade, pomegranate blueberry, peach, and blood orange) in champagne glasses (bottoms painted gold).

I had a few “activities” for everyone to participate in. I asked everyone to bring a recipe for April, so we gave her a little stack of some of our most-loved recipes.

We also wrote on little cards “Advice and Well Wishes for the Soon-to-Be Mrs.!”

Finally, we all wrote down a couple of clever date night ideas for April and Adam.

I decorated the mantle in the living room with more gold and floral! Along the bottom you can see photos of Adam & April, which I stole from her Instagram account and clipped to paper doilies.

Of course it wouldn’t be a shower without a showering of gifts! We all wanted the super-cool double-decker casserole dish carrier that one sweet friend gave April!