My Mother in Law made this SUPER gorgeous tree with Baby Max hanging from the branches! I thought it was SUPER CUTE!
My mother in law made individual cheesecakes (plus a WHOLE lot of other yummy things) and put little toys on the serving platters.
This wasn't even ALL the food! They did such a great job!
There were AMAZING banana yummy cupcakes. Rebekah is super creative and loves to make things that taste yummy and look cute. She made banana muffins cut them in thirds, layered carmel and bananas then the top was whip cream and carmel mixed with chocolate shavings on top!! YUMM-EE!
Standard Kiwi treat...fruit kabobs with marshmallows :) These are my favorites and my Mother in Law knows that :)
Yummy truffles...bought because they are brown (the baby's theme colors--Brown & Blue--and because they are my Mother in Law's favorites!)
My friend Rebekah that threw the shower!
My cutie Sister in Law and Max's Auntie Rosie
My good friend Sally
My little friend Georgia
My cute Mother in Law
I lived with Ali when I lived her 2 years ago, so it is so fun to have her at things like this.
My friend Rebekah made a boquet out of cupcakes! So creative and fun!!
We got lots of little outfits and some cute little blankets too! It was so sweet of them to do the shower and so wonderful to have people come. It was different not having friends and family from home for me but they made it special. I did have to LAUGH very hard at one VERY American moment that left most of the room appalled. Some mentioned that it was a sunny day and I will have to wash all the baby things and hang them out to dry since it was sunny. I quickly responded, knowing I was being a bit cheeky, with, "Don't forget I am American so I will dry all those clothes." At this point you would have thought I said I was going to feed Max poison on a regular basis. This awkward moment just spurred me on to make sure they knew it wasn't a crime in my head to run the dryer. My poor mother in law....she wasn't quite sure what to say with the fact that her first grandson would have dried clothes. I was quickly told that I couldn't dry the clothes with a few disapproving nods, even one friend that was towards the back of the room shook her head and said, "No you can't do that everything will shrink." To which I again cheekly replied, "Nope American babies survive just fine with dried clothes." Again, you might have thought I was going to allow Max to play with a loaded gun, but no just was going to use the dryer... :) AHHHH the differences of culture!
Other than my slight rebellion of having my baby shower with non American friends :) It was a wonderful day! My mother in law also did something else that was quite cute I thought. She wrapped a present from everyone in the family (even Sam's brothers and dad). So Maximillian had tons of things from his Aunties and Uncles and GG and Pops. Here are just a few of the things Max got:
A few onesies :)
His Auntie Rosie and Gracie got him my MOST Favorite things! Auntie Rosie bought him this cute Scooby Doo shirt and a pair of black skinny jeans like Sam wears.
And Auntie Gracie got him this cute skater shirt. It will be for when he is a little older but I LOVED IT!
Sally bought him these cute little blocks with old fashioned toys on them (His room is in old toys)
Another friend knew I was doing the room in old fashioned toys so she found this cute little truck for him.
I definitely MISSED having my mom and aunties and grandmothers there and the rest of my family, but felt like they were there in spirit :) And my friends and Mother in Law made it special for me and worked so hard making it not only fun, but cute!
I leave you with Maximillian's room. We still have a few other things to finish and I will post more pictures when it's all done, but here is the gist of his little boy room.
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