A Mother's Day Celebration: Baby C is on the Way!

In late July, our preciousperfectgiftfromGod nephew arrived! 

Master Harris Everton Coody came into the world on July 28th, and I am so thankful for the gift of him. To see my brother and his wife become parents made my heart feel like it was going to explode, and I simply can't get enough of that baby! 

Waaayyy earlier this summer, we had them a baby celebration over Mother's Day weekend, and I wanted to share the pretty images from the luncheon at my parents' beautiful house. 

Baby Harris, we love you so much more than we can say! And are SO happy you are here! 

A Mother's Day Celebration: Baby C is on the Way!

In late July, our preciousperfectgiftfromGod nephew arrived! 

Master Harris Everton Coody came into the world on July 28th, and I am so thankful for the gift of him. To see my brother and his wife become parents made my heart feel like it was going to explode, and I simply can't get enough of that baby! 

Waaayyy earlier this summer, we had them a baby celebration over Mother's Day weekend, and I wanted to share the pretty images from the luncheon at my parents' beautiful house. 

Baby Harris, we love you so much more than we can say! And are SO happy you are here! 

A Black and White Baby Shower

On Friday I shared a few peeks into our recent "sprinkle", held for 3 of my college best friends who are all expecting their second baby. 

Today, I am sharing the super chic baby shower we planned for our friend Lauren, a first-time mommy-to-be. She and her husband are not finding out the gender, so it's twice as exciting to wait for the big day when the baby arrives! 

When planning this shower, we immediately decided to center the party around a color scheme of black and white, Lauren's favorite. With animal accents in gold and crisp flowers in green and white, well, I think it looked just like our beautiful mommy-to-be. :) 

Held at 10th & Piedmont in Midtown, we reserved two long banquet style tables and decorated them ourselves (it was like we were on an HGTV show, we did it so fast!). 

Hollie's black and white striped table clothes made the whole table. Jill had coordinated small paper goods with the black and white invitation she designed, so the place settings looked fabulous. A combination of everyone's gold chargers paired with the restaurant's white plates and linens worked perfectly. 

I used the gold animals from Henry's 1st birthday party to line the center of the table, along with my arrangements of white roses, green mums, yellow roses, and white daisies. 

A presh cookie from Two Crazy Cookies sat at each place setting as well. 

All of the hostesses for Lauren's baby shower:

Jill, Glenn, Meredith, Meghan, Me, Hollie, Kim, and Renee

Me and My Mom! 

And here's our whole group, all the mamas with the daughters, and our little princess Miss Elly too

A Black and White Baby Shower

On Friday I shared a few peeks into our recent "sprinkle", held for 3 of my college best friends who are all expecting their second baby. 

Today, I am sharing the super chic baby shower we planned for our friend Lauren, a first-time mommy-to-be. She and her husband are not finding out the gender, so it's twice as exciting to wait for the big day when the baby arrives! 

When planning this shower, we immediately decided to center the party around a color scheme of black and white, Lauren's favorite. With animal accents in gold and crisp flowers in green and white, well, I think it looked just like our beautiful mommy-to-be. :) 

Held at 10th & Piedmont in Midtown, we reserved two long banquet style tables and decorated them ourselves (it was like we were on an HGTV show, we did it so fast!). 

Hollie's black and white striped table clothes made the whole table. Jill had coordinated small paper goods with the black and white invitation she designed, so the place settings looked fabulous. A combination of everyone's gold chargers paired with the restaurant's white plates and linens worked perfectly. 

I used the gold animals from Henry's 1st birthday party to line the center of the table, along with my arrangements of white roses, green mums, yellow roses, and white daisies. 

A presh cookie from Two Crazy Cookies sat at each place setting as well. 

All of the hostesses for Lauren's baby shower:

Jill, Glenn, Meredith, Meghan, Me, Hollie, Kim, and Renee

Me and My Mom! 

And here's our whole group, all the mamas with the daughters, and our little princess Miss Elly too

Sprinkles Sprinkles Sprinkles

I love my friends.

No, seriously. Like LOVE them. 

I'm so incredibly blessed to call them mine, and have experienced so so so many of life's biggest triumphs and tragedies and beautiful moments and wonderful surprises with them.

We've all been friends since freshman year at UGA (13 years ago!!!!) so they're no stranger to my blog or my Instagram account. 

Honestly, if you know me, then chances are, you know all of them too. 

There are 8 mommies in our big group, 4 of which are preggie right now. Three of them are on baby numero dos, so we decided to have a lil sprinkle for them, and a full on shower for the new mommy-to-be. 

Here, I am sharing a few {grainy} iPhone pics of the precious, colorful sprinkle we did for them a few weeks ago at La Madeline (Hello, tomato soup). Its so fun that our moms have all gotten to be good friends too, and having the whole group there was just a ball.

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We set the tables in a private room with favors, fun straws, and lively flowers. 

I made some pretty cute flower arrangements for the occasion using pink carnations, lavender daisies, yellow roses, and gorgeous coral parrot tulips. 

Polka dots were everywhere, lining the tables and draped from the chandelier. Our friend Jill and her mama sewed them all together - too pumped to have all these fun colors in the party stash! 

My friend Linsey of Two Crazy Cookies made the adorable and delicious thumbprint cookies with colorful sprinkles on top. 

There are two girls and a boy on the way, and it was so fun to watch them open all the adorable baby goodies! 

Our friend Kim, the super-chef, made this delicious and adorable sprinkle cake for dessert. Tissue dots were across the table for color! 

And here's our group - the best friends ever! 

Kim, Renee, Lauren, Me, Hollie, and Jill are in back. 

And our "sprinkled" mamas on front: Meredith, Glenn, and Meghan 

Sprinkles Sprinkles Sprinkles

I love my friends.

No, seriously. Like LOVE them. 

I'm so incredibly blessed to call them mine, and have experienced so so so many of life's biggest triumphs and tragedies and beautiful moments and wonderful surprises with them.

We've all been friends since freshman year at UGA (13 years ago!!!!) so they're no stranger to my blog or my Instagram account. 

Honestly, if you know me, then chances are, you know all of them too. 

There are 8 mommies in our big group, 4 of which are preggie right now. Three of them are on baby numero dos, so we decided to have a lil sprinkle for them, and a full on shower for the new mommy-to-be. 

Here, I am sharing a few {grainy} iPhone pics of the precious, colorful sprinkle we did for them a few weeks ago at La Madeline (Hello, tomato soup). Its so fun that our moms have all gotten to be good friends too, and having the whole group there was just a ball.

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We set the tables in a private room with favors, fun straws, and lively flowers. 

I made some pretty cute flower arrangements for the occasion using pink carnations, lavender daisies, yellow roses, and gorgeous coral parrot tulips. 

Polka dots were everywhere, lining the tables and draped from the chandelier. Our friend Jill and her mama sewed them all together - too pumped to have all these fun colors in the party stash! 

My friend Linsey of Two Crazy Cookies made the adorable and delicious thumbprint cookies with colorful sprinkles on top. 

There are two girls and a boy on the way, and it was so fun to watch them open all the adorable baby goodies! 

Our friend Kim, the super-chef, made this delicious and adorable sprinkle cake for dessert. Tissue dots were across the table for color! 

And here's our group - the best friends ever! 

Kim, Renee, Lauren, Me, Hollie, and Jill are in back. 

And our "sprinkled" mamas on front: Meredith, Glenn, and Meghan