Baby Oliver's Fantabulous Shower

We threw a baby shower for one of my best friends, Natalie, a few weeks ago. I was in charge of food and games and our friend Jordan did the decorations. The result was amazing! I think Jordan and I need to go into business together! haha. Natalie's theme was a nautical/under the sea theme with coral and turquoise.

Jordan did the drinks, and used mason jars and vintage straws. So cute!

On the bottom right are the DELICIOUS creamy chicken taquitos, which can be found here.

There is actually a funny story behind these... I was up late finishing all my baking the night before and asked Jared to help make the filling for the taquitos. We all know men aren't the most attentive to detail, and this case wasn't an exception. Instead of cumin, Jared used CURRY POWER, and ALSO accidentally doubled it. Luckily he was able to scoop some back out. (I didn't find out he had used curry powder til I was at Natalie's the next day!) BUT everyone was oohing and aahing over these taquitos and asking for the recipe!! haha. So all was well! And we now have a secret ingredient...mwahaha.

Okay so this picture doesn't do my sugar cookies justice, plus they had been transported in the car in the hot sun for over an hour by this point. But these were my biggest feat. I think I made 50-something of them and piped and flooded them all with royal icing. They were sooo good. I'm definitely keeping this recipe on hand for the future! 

              These were my "clams" . Cookies with pink icing and a yogurt covered raisin in the center.

And here's a zoomed out shot of the whole table. Jordan also did the cake with the cute banner, and notice all the cute decorations she did with her silhouette

Here's the 3 of us at the end of the shower. I didn't take any pictures of the rest of the decorations because I was so busy running around, but you can see some of them hanging behind us!
PS Don't judge my pictures...I don't exactly have the nicest camera, and Nat's mom's house has a big skylight at the top which made for some difficult lighting! haha

The games were a hoot, in particular the one where we made big 8x11 headshots of Josh and Natalie, and had people cut and paste them to make their "baby". The results were HILARIOUS! Let's just hope baby Oliver doesn't actually end up looking like any of them...

Thanks Natalie, for letting us help out! We can't wait to meet baby Oliver (who may be born at any minute now!)