Sunday, November 15, 2009

A Baby Shower

This weekend we helped our very good friend Monica celebrate the upcoming arrival of her baby girl! We had been planning this shower for quite some time and none of can believe that it was finally here...that means the baby is fast approaching!

The shower was held on Saturday from 2:00 - 4:00 at Daniel Arthur's. They have a penthouse that worked perfect for the group. We used Baby Hahn's bedding as the theme of the shower. We used it on the invitations, the favors, the banner, we designed the flowers and even the cookies around it as well, all of it turned out cute!

We had a big surprise in store for Monica, we got her the rocking chair for the baby's nursery. This chair color had been kind of a toss-up down to the last minute, so we had to wing it and hope that what we picked was going to be okay. Needless to say, about a week ago she had decided that she did indeed want a pink chair, thank goodness because we already had the pink chair for the shower! She was SO shocked and we were SO happy we were able to pull off the surprise!

No peeking!


Okay, you can look!

The PINK chair!

Lila's special gift for her friend...baby girl Hahn!

It was a beautiful shower and we were so happy to plan it for such a wonderful friend. We are all (im)patiently waiting for the arrival of this special little girl, especially Lila...she hears all the time how they are going to be bestest buds! We are so thrilled that Monica and Brandon will be going through parenthood with us, it will be truly awesome to watch the girls grow up together!

Speaking of little girls...Lila spent Saturday afternoon at home with Mike. She was all decked out in her Hawkeye gear, ready to cheer on the Hawks against Ohio State. Our quarterback still isn't 100% yet, so this was going to be the first time the 2nd string, freshman quarterback would start, needless to say there was a lot of negative opinions on how the game would end up. But wouldn't you know?! The Hawkeyes had it tied up in the 4th quarter and took the game into overtime. Unfortunately it wasn't a victory, but at least we can be proud that they showed up and gave it their all, inspite of all of the negative press and the odds against them. They truly are a good football team. It has been a great season to watch and one we can't wait to relive with Lila when she sees all the pictures from when she was a baby!

Happy Hawkeye!

Lila was also able to show her Hawkeye pride on Thursday when we had pictures taken with her, Celia and Ruby in their Iowa Hawkeye cheerleading uniforms! The pictures turned out great and they will definitely be ones that the guys in our lives cherish! When the girls were all smiling for the camera, Jen looked over and said "I just think about all of the fun things they are going to do together, girls trips, etc. and it makes me smile!" It makes us smile too...and wince a bit because with fun I am sure there will be trouble! We'll take it!

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