Surprise Shower!!

Last night, Wicks and I pulled off a successful surprise shower for Leslie, who is due in mid-April with a sweet baby boy (whose name she will not reveal to us, thus the shower we did not reveal to her :)).  We had lots of fun planning/preparing for the shower and even more fun once everyone was there! 

For the menu, we made bellinis, sliders (aka "baby hamburgers"), buffalo chicken dip, white chocolate dipped pretzels, cream cheese & pepper jelly, cupcakes and brownies.  My favorite things were the pretzels and buffalo dip!  And of course the bellinis!  Yum!

For the decor, we used a diaper cake (also our gift) centerpiece along with some simple baby shower decorations courtesy of Party City.  In the rush to get everything finished in time for our guest of honor to arrive, we missed getting too many pictures of the decor and food table, but everything looked really cute!!

Here are some pictures to recap the evening...

Our first diaper-cake-making experience - a success!!

One of the many yummy foods - pretzels dipped in white chocolate dyed blue and rolled in chocolate sprinkles!

Successful surprise!

Cute baby boy clothes

Barkema (& Hawkins) ladies

Bible study girls

PS - thanks to my sweet husband for letting me take over the house two nights in a row (tonight, Jefferson has a "play date" with Breezy, a 100-lb lab, while my friend Ruth and I will have a chance for a long-overdue hangout time :))