Surprise Alicia! We Love You!

Welcome to your bloggy baby shower my sweet friend!
I know us gals would have LOVED to all be together with you
(oh what a hoot that would be!)
but this is the next best thing!

Thank you Becky for getting this all organized!

There are a few bonuses to an online baby shower:

1. No one will make you down juice from a baby bottle or guess what kind of candy bar is melted in a diaper.
2. There isn't any pressure of being the center of attention while everyone is looking at you open gifts .
3. You can be in your jammies while you party.
4. And for me, after a week of a very sick household, I didn't have to cancel!   I wanted to do so much more for your special surprise, but due to the sickies, Pinterest helped me out.

Oh how I would love to reeeeeally throw you a baby shower 
 but with an online shin dig, we can really dream big.

So sweet friend, come dream with me . . . .

Since we are both big fans of Downton Abby, I thought we'd have a tea party.

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In our dream world, the weather would be sunny, warm, and perfect, so we would be able to wear our sundresses and white gloves.
I think I'll wear something like this

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And I thought we could go get our hair done

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Or maybe not.

Ok, now that we're wearing the proper attire, let's head out to the garden.

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Of course we would need an area for our girls, so I would just whip up this little space for them.

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I did actually make one of the decorations.
I know if 'Granny' was at our lil' tea party she would have brought some of her prize winning flowers.

It's still frozen in our  neck of the woods, so I made a few peony's out of coffee filters.

We would have delicious dainty food of course, just like ladies.

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But since I know you and I both like to eat real food and not just cucumber sandwiches, we would also have something like fried chicken or these yummy sandwiches you pinned the other day.

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I was really hoping to bake a real cake, I was thinking carrot with cream cheese frosting.  And I'm sure it would have turned out something like this

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Now that we're well fed, let's move on to gifts!

Since I've proved to myself that I can sew in a straight line,
I thought Spring Chick might need a soft banner to hang over the bassinet.

( I would only dare give YOU something I've sewed- yikes!)

When you said you were thinking soft cozy lambs for Spring Chick, 

this yarn seemed perfect.  

Spring Chick's blanket is just about done.

The thing about knitting a gift, is I'm constantly thinking about the person while I'm knitting.
So know sweet friend that I said many prayers for you, Spring Chick and your family as I knitted along. 

I'll be getting these in the mail
as soon as I cast off those last stitches.
I have 8 weeks right?

I love you Alicia!
I hope you are blessed like crazy today and feel just how incredibly loved you are.
I CANNOT wait to meet Spring Chick in person.
That baby is so blessed to have you as a momma and to come home to such a loving family.
Words cannot express how happy I am for you SIX!!!