Arielle's Eric Carle Baby Shower

Wow!! This baby shower turned out better than I could imagine! Leigh and I worked so hard on it and let me just say it paid off. We both have a creative side and when we work together miracles can happen.

I hope this blog can help anyone who is attempting an Eric Carle theme for any party.

We purchased most of our decorations from this website: http://www.eric-carle.com/world.html

 We found the idea for the invites here

The game was great!! It is now my go to game for Baby showers!! You make the matching board with poster board and wrapping paper that matches your theme. Then you come up with 12 words that go with your party (baby shower words: OBGYN, Baby giggles, Epidural etc.) When someone makes a match (two of the same words) They get a candy bar that goes with it ( Epidural=Lifesavers candy) It was such a great game.. we found the idea here.

I purchased the candy here

Food: Pretzels dipped in red colored chocolate with brown chocolate dotted on each one. Strawberries cut in half with chocolate dots. Cherries and Grapes for caterpillars, used toothpick.We also had sandwiches, Veggies, Chips and salsa

We had our cake made by a very talented girl! You can find her FB page here

Beautiful wall decals from the Eric Carle website!

Outside going up and down the sidewalk were balloons. They were suppose to look like the caterpillar.

Decor by the entrance. We made a cute sign-in, the guests wrote on a note card with advice for the future mom. We also had Eric Carle book marks for them when they left.

Our floral arrangement was done by Debbie Hoover. She is such a talented friend! She let us borrow things that really brought the decorations together!

Our guest also got into the theme. 

This Grouchy ladybug diaper bag was handmade and given to Arielle along with the book!

A cute little outfit!!

Handmade boxes for the nursery!

This shower was so much fun to prepare, almost as much fun as the shower itself. It seemed that everyone loved the theme and loved the shower, I know I did! Everything my sister and I purchased for the party decorations was given to Arielle to decorate her nursery.  She will also have a very nice child library for her sweet little one that is due in January! I hope the Munchkin is an Eric Carle lover like we are!

New Teachers and Halloween

Wow, The last few weeks have gone by so quickly. I'm sorry that we haven't blogged in a while. I have been really busy with new callings and what not. At the end of this summer I was called as the Primary President. The calling has been fun so far... I think our primary program went really well. While doing all of that I became the lead teacher at CEV right before 4 new teachers came on board. Everything has been going good so far, but it is just a lot on my plate. To top everything off I have planned a secret vacation for Nick for this coming weekend. He doesn't know where we are going, I can't wait till he figures it out and we are on our way! After vacation we will arrive in BAMA!!!

The newbies! Both couples are AMAZING!! Amanda and Nick(bottom) just finished up a two year adventure with the peace corp in China. Lauren and Josh( top right)  got married this past summer and are from the south, it doesn't matter that they are from Louisiana and are LSU fans!

Halloween was a big hit this year. Each teacher picked a game to play in their classroom and we had the classes rotating so they could play all of the games. The students loved the candy! I did a cake walk where the students got chocolate pies instead of cake! All of the rooms were a huge hit.

We had a huge box of costumes/decorations. I decided to do my own thing so I changed/ added or took off layers of clothing/ and had a sign that said What season am I, 1 sentence=1 candy. The kids attacked me going down the hall at the end of every period. I just started throwing the candy so they would leave me alone.

 

This week was our 1 year Korean anniversary and My 28th Birthday! This year has gone by so fast and it was one of the best years of my life!

We love you all and we can't wait to be home for a few days before we come back to our Korean family..


Any guesses as to where we are going this weekend on Secret Vacation? (if you already know, don't give it away)