Anna Kate's Baby Shower

This weekend I went to Birmingham to help throw Anna Kate one of the cutest baby shower's ever ;) Everyone met in town on Friday afternoon to prepare while Anna Kate went and shopped for some last minute maternity items. Mandy was nice enough host the shower at her home, and we all blew in there like tornadoes with all our shower gear! I don't think little Ellie will ever be the same! All the hostesses scurried around decorating, grocery shopping, and preparing food while our guest of honor tried her hardest to be patient. We finished up just in time to meet Anna Kate afterwards for a wonderful Mexican dinner courtesy of the new grandmother, Diana. After a good night's sleep on Friday night, the big event was planned for Saturday morning. If anyone needs to hire a team to throw a shower, let me tell you, call this bunch. I'm convinced we could start our own show called "Project Baby Shower". Even if we are random, we will still work for a small fee :) This team worked like no other getting everything ready for our guest of honor to arrive just before 11:00 am.

The Hostesses and Anna Kate

The details of the shower were amazing. Everyone pitched in with their own ideas to make the shower very personable for Anna Kate and Katherine. Anna Kate was so pleased to see so many of her close friends and family come to the shower. Ginny even brought baby William so he could meet all of his OOC aunts :) And the presents, gosh, I didn't even mention the presents. If this child doesn't like monogrammed items, then we are in trouble. Everyone seemed to know just what the Mom-to-be's favorite thing is! HA!

Pledge Sisters in the making!

After the shower, all the OOC ladies were nice enough to come over to Anna Kate's for a short little visit. We headed back to get into our comfies and go through all of Anna Kate and baby Katherine's loot. We didn't make it to the bottom of the pile, I think that may take some time :)

The Auburn aunts

After enjoying a nice, relaxing happy hour on Anna Kate's veranda, it was time to head to dinner. With exception to throwing really good parties, this crew also likes to eat. Anna Kate arranged for us to have a late dinner at Ocean to top off the day's events and for our farewell to Stacey as she headed back to Miami to greet Hurricane Fay. As always, the meal was outstanding, and I highly recommend the lobster tails or the chocolate lava cake. Either will suit me and baby girl Verdigets' just fine :)

Heading to dinner at Ocean

As always, I had the time of my life with these girls. They are wonderful friends, and not to mention some of the most fun people I've ever been around. I am sad that the shower is over just because we had so much fun planning it! However, it won't be long until we all get to hang out again. Did I hear someone say Spa Weekend 2009?!?!?!? Get your planners out ladies!