My friend Kimberly and I have been through a lot together. What started out as a friendship of convenience ~ our husbands played softball and coached wrestling together ~ ended up being a relationship of lasting endurance. Almost 10 years later, we’ve been in each other’s weddings, through pregnancies and births, hardships and good times. When I was in the ICU, determined to continue breast feeding a 2 week old Blythe but unable to use my own tainted milk, Kim stepped up and donated her own. While some people might go, “Ew?”, I can say with conviction, it was the absolute best thing for Blythe. I’ll forever be grateful for that amazing gift – and what have you done for your friends lately? Kim managed to not only get ready for the shower with an 18 month old in tow, she also managed to make this beautiful strawberry creation. One of the guests liked it so much, she asked Kim to make another one for a bridal shower the following day. Since it’s made of diapers (you can get your own at www.hippeebaby.com) the standard answer was never.
I was particularly impressed, given my own attempt at a beautiful strawberry creation just a few weeks prior. Good thing one of us knows what we’re doing, because mine would have taken the whole affair down a few notches on the class rung.
And how freaking cute is this cake? 
The girl-child in the picture is about to be a big sister, and how freaking cute is she? There’s a funny story that goes along with this cake, and it involves a one-armed woman absconding with it mere minutes before the shower was to start. Kim had me in stitches trying to imagine said woman attempting to both carry the cake and get the car door open, but I digress.
No one tried to steal the other cake featured at the shower, although a couple of children asked when we were going to eat it.
I’m sorry, but I forgot to take a photo of the invitations I made, which were also adorned with buttons. I started out sewing them on but 5 buttons per invitation times 40 invitations divided by small children running around my house = I don’t even know, but after about 5 of them I switched to applying ZOTS and got them done, thank JESUS.
Everything was beautiful and the food was delicious – or so I hear… I was on the no-corn, no-egg diet by then and just had to smell everyone’s food and cake. Only one small thing marred the day, and that was my beloved TARGET, failing to update the registry. Nothing’s worse, I think, than watching someone open four of the exact same gift, especially when they are large, pink bathtubs. Oh, Target, you hurt me so.
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