Both Michael’s beach party and the baby shower were fantastic this weekend! No sunburns (on me and Gabriel, at least :-), no food poisoning, no food shortages. (Well, there was one incident with an exploding blender of tomato-basil soup…see below).
Michael and I worked like crazy people getting things hung up on the walls, furniture arranged, and everything clean for the parties. Not to mention I did some serious planning to get everything purchased, cooked, cooled and arranged on time. Even with all of our hard work, I am positive that I had some Heavenly help last weekend for everything to have come out so beautifully.
Some pictures from the weekend:
I should have shown Shannon how to use the blender before I asked her to puree the tomato-basil soup for me. Sorry Shannon!
I made fruit pizza (the three-tired plates), bacon and spinach mini quiches, curry chicken salad with toasted pecans, served on fresh croissants, and a to-die-for-spot-on-La-Madeleine-tomato-basil-soup. Everything was DELICIOUS!
I made homemade strawberry lemonade for the shower, but I can’t say it turned out to be a winner. I found the recipe on Emeril Lagasse’s Website, and it had tons of good reviews. I must have done something really wrong, though….it had nice flavor, but you know it won’t be a crowd-pleaser when you realize you have to chew it because there’s so much lemon and strawberry pulp.
I threw the shower with the momma-to-be’s sister, Nicole. Nicole arrived that morning with an ENORMOUS diaper cake, which is basically a clever “cake” made out of rolled up diapers and ribbons. You pin all kinds of little baby items around the cake: pacifiers, bibs, onesies, toys, rattles, etc.
On this table, I had a fruit tray with a yummy yogurt dip, toasted pecans, and pasta salad.
Gabriel is going through some kind of Extra-Cuddles-Required phase, which Gabriel’s daddy is more than happy to indulge in our ancient old brown armchair. (Seriously, that wonderful old chair is so old that I think there must be a picture of my dad holding me like that somewhere).
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