surprise baby shower:

ok, this is SO very long overdue but i just had to post this fun little story :) a couple weeks ago, we had a surprise baby shower for our dear friend, ruby from cakies! it was planned out perfectly. linda, helen, & ellen and i met and immediately had all sorts of ideas for how we would plan a surprise shower for ruby's #3 on the way. here's how it went:

classic face. she was totally surprised. and a little confused ;)


video capturing the moment. love it!


some of our decor!



so our 'theme' was school books - linda being a school teacher naturally came up with this brilliant idea. we had kids books that themed the food we got.


a beautiful hand sewn pendant banner made by helen like, 40 minutes before the shower. she is legit!


i love these action shots. linda is explaining to ruby
how we planned everything. helen's huge smile is
awesome as all the plans are coming out ;)


so cute.


linda, ruby, me, helen
(linda has the most cute engagement story: read here!)


ok, totally love this shot - i think rj took it.
it is such a blogger thing. all of us bloggers know.
we all had our cameras out.
between the 4 of us taking pictures, we probably have
10 pictures of each different food.
but i love the different takes on everything.


jenny took this image.. i love the foreground but
also nick and i are in the background on the phont
with his sister ;)

so that was our surprise party!
so fun.
and so lovely to plan something for
someone who is so amazing.
and i just met ruby through blogging!
i love blogging too.

i cannot take credit for all these lovely photos.
many are by: helen, rj, and jenny!