Showered with Love

Nathan is already one lucky boy to have so many people celebrating him! Our great friends, the Ayers and the Bridges, threw a dinner party shower for us this past weekend and they did an a-m-a-z-i-n-g job with all the details! I know Lauren and Lindsay spent many evenings together planning the festivities and I was so excited to see what they put together. They did not disappoint!
The Bridges' house was decked out with our nursery colors (gray, yellow and navy) and had Nathan's monogram all over - even in their picture frames. They had adorable clothes hanging over the gift table...They made a candy bar and dessert table with "Nathan" hanging on the wall above it. People got to fill goody bags with blue and yellow candy to take home with them and Lindsay had tiny cakes made with "N"s on them. So cute!

We played a couple games. The first was not being able to say certain words or you would have your rattle taken away. I got one extra, but ended up giving mine away by the end of the night so give someone else a chance to win.

Party goers also had to answer a short survey on questions that Ryan and I had answered. The winner got a bottle of wine - nice prize!
Finally, they set up a baby pool to guess when Nathan would arrive. A lot of folks picked dates after his due date - let's hope they are wrong!

After some folks left, we ended up breaking out the dice and playing a few rounds of LCR. I won one, which was very exciting! When we finally got home and to bed, it was after 1 am. I would say that's a successful party!

Me and the lovely hostesses

The parents-to-be

Some of the girls (by then, a few had left)

And some of the boys

It was such a great night and we had so much fun. Thanks so much to all of our friends who came and helped celebrate our little munchkin's upcoming arrival!