pink & gold baby shower

This weekend I had the opportunity to go down to St. George all by myself. All.by.myself. Of course, the laws of nature decided that they wanted me to stay home. Even St. George was hit with snow, and the entire state's temperatures were below freezing. I made up my mind that I wouldn't chance it on icy roads and stay home.

Early Friday afternoon, a neighbor of mine mentioned on Facebook that they were on their way to St. George. After some conversation back and forth, I decided the roads were safe enough to be traveled. I'm so glad I went because the roads were just fine, and I had a blast hanging out with my sisters and mom.

My youngest sister, Rylee, is due with her first little baby at the beginning of February, so we wanted to shower her with some love and gifts. When planning her shower we decided to forgo a theme, and just go with the colors gold, pink, and peach. It turned out perfectly!

When the guests walked in they were asked to write their address on an envelope for Rylee to use for "thank you" cards. They also had the chance to name the baby. Rylee got a lot of really cute name suggestions. I might even steal a few...

The food table was the best! We made Caesar salad, artichoke dip, cream cheese raspberry chipotle dip, and ham & cheese sliders. The desserts were just as yummy. We had knock-off Swig sugar cookies, white chocolate dipped rice crispy treats, and popcorn. Many guests commented on how they liked Whitnee's sugar cookies better than Swig's. Sorry Swig!

The biggest hit of the party was the drink bar. We had vanilla, raspberry, peach, coconut, and pomegranate syrups; vanilla Coffee Mate cream; and Dr. Pepper, Diet Coke, and Sprite sodas. I made a drink menu with some mix ideas, and we made sure to have an ice bucket full of pellet ice.

For the drink menu, I added the baby mama and dad's favorite drinks, and other family favorites. I assigned each drink a baby shower appropriate name, and categorized them according the the base soda in the drink. It was a fun to talk about the different drinks everyone chose to mix. (Free download at the bottom of the post.)

My mom and my sister Jessica were the brains behind the decor. This banner was made out of treat bags. It was such a cheap and easy way to decorate. Don't you worry, I won't leave you high a dry without a tutorial.

Materials you will need are enough treat bags for the size of banner you want to make, scissors, ruler, pencil, double sided tape or glue stick, and ribbon or string.

On the opening side of the treat bag, make a mark with a pencil in the middle of the bag.

Draw a straight line connecting the corner of the bottom of the bag to the pencil mark you made in the middle of the bag. Repeat for the other bottom corner.

Cut along you lines and you will be left with a triangle. The top of the triangle should be the sealed bottom part of the bag - perfect for draping over a ribbon or string.

Open your bag triangle, and insert the ribbon or string.

Glue or tape the top and bottom triangles together so they won't separate and fall off the ribbon. Repeat steps until you have the desired length of banner. You can add letters to spell something, or just leave the triangles.

Click the picture to download the drink menu.