Party Hopping

This past weekend was full of showers! Ok, just two, but still- it was a lot for one day. My mother and Aunt Ronda hosted a family shower for my cousin Heath's bride-to-be, Elisabeth. Out of respect for my mother, I won't go into any other details other than it was beautiful. I won't divulge the madness/craziness behind the scenes. Wink, wink!

Here is the hostess with the mostest cooking her little heart out before all the guests arrived.

The table all set and ready to go. Everything was super delicious! My mom made a breakfast casserole that was the bomb.com.

 All the Robbins ladies (and future) gathered together. Now that I look at this, I wonder where my grandmother was for this. Ha!

The future sister-in-laws. I have to say, Heath did good picking out Elisabeth. She is an absolute delight and such a sweetheart.

One of the highlights of the party was that my {great} Aunt Essie was able to come to the shower. She is a trooper, I tell ya!

This is where my grandmother was- playing with the baby! He is 6 weeks old and oh-so precious!

Here is everyone all gathered together. It was wonderful to see everyone. Sadly, showers like this is the only time that we all get together!

Heath even made an appearance at this shower. He had to come open his gift!

So, that was our brunch shower that morning. Later that night, we had a couples shower.

All smiles before the party! The happy couple and my Aunt Susan {or Birdie} and my Uncle Brett.

I had to include this picture because I thought it was just so darn cute! <3>

The hostess had a really cute idea for dinner. Those boxes on the table all contained our meal. We had bbq sandwiches, marinated green been salad, potato salad and chips. It was too cute!

I think Heath really enjoyed his shower! If you look at the picture above you may see something quite shiny and big. That beautiful silver present caused quite the ruckus. My mother bought what she thought was silver paper. It turned out to be nothing more than clear cellophane. So, here comes the melt down and panic. Because where my family lives, there is no Wal-Mart you can just run to and grab some wrapping paper. So she improvised....with tin foil.

She then wrapped the cellophane around it. I thought it looked fine. But she was still mortified.

So do my mother a favor, and pin this idea. Tin Foil/cellophane wrapping. It's the next big thing! Heath and Elisabeth didn't seem to mind the homemade approach.

Plus, like someone pointed out, after you unwrap your present you can sure bake a whole lotta potatoes!

Ha! Love you, mother!

So that was the epic day of showers. It was an interesting day- but a good one!