My little darling is two months old and I’m pretty sure everyone I know is aware of her arrival, but I still wanted to send out birth announcements. These ones were difficult to finalize {perhaps because this is my job and I wanted them to be just right or perhaps because she is the last one I’ll be sending out announcements for}, but I do love how they turned out.
My big sister and I hosted a shower for our little sister last night. She is due with her second little girl in just a few weeks, so it was fun to celebrate with a few of her dearest friends.
While laying in bed fighting off a breast infection a few weeks ago, the theme for the shower came to me:
A P R I L S H O W E R S B R I N G M A Y F L O W E R S
We wanted everything to be really flowery and springy with a yummy salad, crusty bread, special sweets and time to honor the mommy-to-be.
{invitations}
{flower pin favors}
{garland}
{gifts}
{fresh flowers}
{the food}
{me, my sis, mom, and little girl}
And just because I think they are some of the cutest maternity photos, here are a few that were taken last week of my sissy, her husband and the most darling soon-to-be big sister {hope you don’t mind, sis!}
My mom taught a song to the boys:
“It’s a sunny day, it’s a sunny day, it’s sunny outside so we can go out a play. All the little children say ‘hip-hip-hooray!’ It’s a sunny, sunny day {boom boom}”
Most days when it is unexpectedly sunny {quite frequently, I’m afraid}, we all break out in song. Today was one of those day.
GORGEOUS.
So we headed outdoors.
I realized that since having our little girl, I really haven’t photographed my first three loves. So I grabbed the camera and snapped a few shots of our beautiful day.
We met up with my mom and her wonderful husband for a lakeside lunch.
Then ventured to another park to meet up with cousins. {Note: it was only 68, which is really a nice spring day, but certainly not warm enough to be shirtless – unless you are 5 and you really don’t care}.
My silly six year old found posing for the camera quite entertaining. He had some awesome poses.
Hope you are all enjoying your weekend. We loved today.
Unfortunately, I think we’ll be singing the “It’s a rainy day” version of the song tomorrow.
Posted by emily | 0 commentsi’ve kind of been into glitter lately, and it was the perfect touch for these fancy dinner party invitations. 
book bag name tags:
as you can see, these are printed on white cardstock, then laminated. a coordinating ribbon is attached {please let me know if you have a ribbon preference}
stickers :
so cute for sealing up a brown bag lunch!
and lunch box note cards:
little love notes to your darlings made easy {only 5 fill in the blanks … with two of them being your child’s name and yours!}
stickers are great for notebooks too.
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