My dear, sweet friend Lindsay is expecting. She has incredible self-control! She and her husband have known the gender of the baby for months but have kept it a secret from everyone. This past weekend was the baby shower, in which they finally revealed the gender of the baby and the baby's name. It was sooooo much fun...and had PINTEREST all over it! What fun to see how people take the ideas found through Pinterest and put them into action. It was so fun! Here's a little peak...
Each attendee was asked to vote by either wearing pink or blue. When we arrived, we either got a 'stache' for a boy or 'lips' for a girl!
All of the food and goodies had such cute little sayings with them!
What a NEAT idea! This was a fruit pizza bar...sugar cookies, cream cheese icing, and then your fruit(s) of choice! So cute!
This was "Chips & Lip Dip!"
aka Pigs in a Blanket....but how cute!
Team Blue!
There was even pink and blue water bottles and yes...fun polka dotted paper straws!
Guest of honor!
Before Lindsay opened her gifts she handed out stacks of envelopes to all the tables. Everyone was to get an envelope. Some of them were blue and some of them were pink. It didn't matter though because they were all the same on the inside. Her mom and Brandon's mom were given gift bags with their cards attached. When Lindsay counted to 3 everyone was to open their cards which announced they are having a boy. The two grandmas' cards had the name of the baby also listed, Eli Xavier! It was so funny because her mother kept insisting she was having a girl, as she proudly wore her very pink shirt! It was truly one of the cutest showers I have ever attended, with every minute detail attended to with precision and finesse!
God is so good! We met Lindsay and Brandon through our friends Kristin and Ryan. We were all attending the same church but shortly after we met, Brandon and Lindsay had decided to leave that church and we followed suit soon after. We found Living Hope and invited them to come try it out with us. When Living Hope set up a small group ministry on Sunday evenings, Scott and I became facilitators and invited them to join our group. They did and God grew a deep bond between us. Many times it would just be the four of us and once the girls would get home from Awana we would settle in around the table for pizza or whatever I mustered up to feed all of us. Towards the end our favorite was Trader Joe's Orange Chicken. I am so thankful for the season of having Brandon and Lindsay in our lives on a weekly basis and miss them terribly. However, I know God is working His purposes in each of our journeys. They really wanted to get back closer to family and friends so they can live out the gospel and share the love of Christ with the people that mean so much to them. I pray their families will one day "get it!"
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