Baby Shower

The Bean’s Baby Shower

October 23, 2013

My baby shower was 2 weekends ago. It was so lovely and we had such a fun time celebrating with family and friends.

My mom came up from Florida on Friday night to surprise me for the shower so it was great to be able to celebrate with her there as well.

Sooo freaking cute!!

The general idea for the shower was to focus on fun fall things from pies, crisp apples, and bright changing leaves. We enjoyed goodies like a caramel dip with apples, fresh baked banana bread, and homemade caramel popcorn balls.

We all enjoyed goodies and wine (well, I had apple cider) while we caught up and did baby shower things. Just kidding… baby shower games are THE WORST and I would have climbed out the 4th story window instead of playing a game.

But I couldn’t get out of opening the presents, but I could drag Price into the festivities and that is exactly what I did. 😛

Price and I had registered online using Baby List. It’s an online registry that allows you to ‘pin’ things, basically just like pinterest, to your registry from any website. We decided to use this for our registry that it would make things easy for people to shop, esp when living in a city with limited access to the big box stores like Babies R Us.

There were lots of very cute outfits to show off. Like, one of our friends is a diehard Batman fan so he obviously gifted us some adorable Batman themed onesies. Cute!

Pricer is kinda super excited about diaper bag. He likes that it has a list inside to remind you of what to pack. (I think this just gives me backup for when he forgets something)

My sister gave us a great bouncy seat as well as this adorable onesie for The Bean.

A big THANK YOU to Kellie and Cheri for planning this wonderful party and another big THANK YOU for everyone who came or gave us a gift for The Bean.

xoxo

10.11-13: Weekend Recap

October 14, 2013

{Friday Night} work a bit late | home | mom at the house to surprise me for the baby shower | dinner at Red Lantern | bed

{Saturday} up early with Kemper | go to Haymarket | Bread and Butter for Breakfast sandwiches | clean up the fridge and kitchen | lounge around watching Food Network and nap | get ready | baby shower | Kris came to the house for about an hr | relax and organize gifts | bed

{Sunday} up early with Kemper | lounge around and sort baby shower stuff | long brunch at local 149 with mom | naps | assemble the bouncy seat and sort clothing by size | pizza dinner at Prince’s Pizzeria | blogging & mom knitting while we watch TV | bed

3.25-27: How Martha Were You?

March 28, 2011

How Martha Was I This Weekend?

Friday Night-

on our way home from work Price and I stopped for Lottery Tickets

Our friends Natalie and Jason came over for dinner- together we made sangria, grilled veggies, sauteed mushrooms, grilled chicken, rice pasta with fresh pesto and sun-dried tomatoes, and enjoyed the chic pea salad they brought over

made a double batch of cookies

watched Who Do You Think You Are?, which prompted us to start to look up our families on Ancestry.com

Saturday-

Headed down to Haymarket by 7am to get fresh fruits and veggies for the baby shower and the week ahead

Back home to prep for the baby shower- made fruit salad, cupcakes, unload/reload dishwasher, set up a mocktails table, etc

Baby shower from 1-4ish

Laundry, unload/reload dishwasher, and overall clean up from Baby shower while Price was with his friend Cooper who came to stay the night,

scrapbooked while watching SATC marathon

Briefly caught up with Cooper when they got back before going to bed

Sunday-

slept in (!) until 9.30 🙂

called my mom and talked for 1+hour, I’m now going to go down to CT next weekend

brunch

went through the paper and cut coupons

removed fake nails, repainted with a light shimmer

Met Emily at the Prudential Mall/Copley Place for some shopping at William Sonoma, Game Stop, Banana Republic, and Jcrew and dinner at 5 Napkin Burger (Price gave me a ride there :-))

Back home to prep for the week, meal plan and organize coupons

Trip to the food store- some guy had a seizure while we were there and we helped him until the paramedics arrived, scary since he was turning blue at first but he ended up being okay

Unload dishwasher, reload dishwasher while unpacking groceries

Time to veg until 12am Studio Calico shops open for some midnight shopping 🙂

During Morning Living on Martha Radio, the hosts hold a segment called How Martha Were You? every Monday morning where you recap your weekend’s activities.

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11.19-21: How Martha Were You?

November 22, 2010

How Martha Was I This Weekend?

The majority of the weekend was focused on a baby shower that I co-hosted with a coworker at my apartment. The baby shower went well so that is all that mattered. Sunday was spent relaxing in the morning and then doing work around the apartment, like move furniture around to switch our bedroom with our office.

Friday night

made blue paper-chain decorations and hung them up (with help 🙂 )

started cleaning apartment- moving furniture and plants, sweeping, dusting, etc

unload, reload dishwasher

prep cupcakes… gotta love mis en place

Saturday

drove into work and picked up the gifts that people left because they could not make it to the party

stop at iparty for blue balloons and papergoods

go to food store for snacks and drinks

made 36 vanilla bean cupcakes (using homemade vanilla sugar) and chocolate frosting

Baby Shower!!

Post shower clean up and relaxation

Sunday

slept in to 9.30… woohoo!!!

Some more dishes

Review session with Current Boston Architectural College student regarding portfolios and job interviews

Did some work on baby shower mini scrapbook

Started the process of switching the bedroom with the office.

Watched American Music Awards and started a new crocheting project during the show

During Morning Living on Martha Radio, the hosts hold a segment called How Martha Were You? every Monday morning where you recap your weekend’s activities.