Monday, April 30, 2012

Winnie the Pooh Shower

My childhood friend, Jessica is having a baby and is due June 27th. We hosted a shower for her today at my mom's house. We couldn't decide on a theme because Jessica is not finding out the gender of her baby. My mom wanted to do a garden theme and I thought a green and yellow jungle theme would be cute. Finally, my mom asked Jessica how she was decorated the nursery and when she responded with "Winnie the Pooh" we knew we had a theme!

We played two games, baby trivia (found here) and a baby scramble (kinda like this). I also created a Wishes for Baby sheet. I used this template but I made it Pooh themed. After all the guests filled out their wishes for baby, I collected them and we are going to laminate all of them and put them into a book. Jessica and Baby will have this book to look back on and read later! Take a look at our food spread!

Our spread
We served veggies and dip

Chicken salad with crackers and cheese

Red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting

Fruit dip with cream cheese dip, chocolate dip and caramel dip and mushrooms

and Spinac Artichoke dip with pita chips
In the dining room, we had the cake and punch and used the diaper cake as the focal point of the display.

My mom made the diaper cake using a YouTube tutorial! I don't think she will ever do it again but it is really cute!

My mom also made the lime sherbert punch which I didn't think was going to be very good but it turned out to be amazing!
The adorable and delicious cake was from a bakery in Suwanee
This was what we gave as the prize for winning the games...its a citronella candle, flower seeds, a spade and a flower notepad.
The parents to be! Congratulations

The girls! Dorena, P, Jessica, me and Shanna after the shower
Overall, it was a great shower! We had so much fun! It was great to hang out with friends. Jessica and Ryan are going to be great parents! Jessica is so sweet and patient and I know she is going to be a great mom! And I know Nana Cherry is going to be a great grandma...she saved all of Jessica's baby stuff to pass down. I know Baby Cherry Mills is going to be greatly loved and spoiled :)

Love,
K

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Plunge Fest

The first weekend in February, I participated in Plunge Fest 2012. As most of you know, I participated in Polar Bear Club in 2004. It was a blistery 40 degrees in February that I first jumped into the water.

I did it again  at a seasonable warm 50 degrees and I think my internal heater is failing me! I have never been so cold!

Overall, we raised the most money as a group and we had the most participants and volunteers of any organization. It makes me proud to be a Staff Advisor for the Athens Tech Rotaract Club.

Here are some pictures...

They had EMS there for those who couldn't handle the cold

Someone ran out of room to write registration

Our ATC group! Check out Judge Barron squeezing in there!

Check me out flexing my muscles in the water

The lake is so peaceful

The temperature after the jump

I won an award for the youngest plunger who raised the most money!
It was an awesome event and ATC was well represented. I can't wait to do it again next year!

Thanks to everyone who donated! I appreciate the support :)

Love,
K