baby shower.

after almost two months of planning, our shower took place on november 13th. i spent all of saturday preparing food and most of sunday morning organize; i was super exhausted by the time it was even time for the shower, but it was definitely something that we really enjoyed.

everything came together beautifully in the end and the things that didn't, nobody knew about. as k noted, it really was like planning for a mini wedding!

my inspiration/theme for the shower was the favor i chose; when i first saw this, i knew immediately it was what i wanted to give our guests. it's a cute little caterpillar salt and pepper shaker. i looked all over the web for a few days and did a lot of comparison shopping to get the best price available since these little babies were around $4 each.

we decided to stick with green and blue colors in addition to the caterpillar theme. the food came out great; we had so much leftover that we didn't know what to do with it. the menu consisted of pigs in a blanket, pepperoni pinwheels, fried noodles, fried rice, potstickers (fried dumplings) and pork belly buns (gua bao). for dessert there was a green tea cheesecake, green tea cupcakes as well as homemade bottle and carriage shaped sugar cookies made by kenndy, which came out even better than i originally envisioned.

we played a few games and awarded some prizes. towards the end, we opened presents and all in all it was an absolutely exhausting but still extremely satisfying day.

the one big thing? WE FORGOT TO PASS OUT THE FAVORS BEFORE EVERYONE LEFT!!!! ugh. i spent a couple of days writing out my thank you cards and sending out the favors via fedex. i hope everyone got their favors in the mail!

currently: 33 weeks and 5 days
weight gained: approximately 20lbs