At the entrance they had a surfboard welcome sign with beach balls and lanterns to set the scene. At the bar they had another surfboard sign that said Our Beach Boy, adorable orange and blue drink straws, and an adorable diaper cake! Everyone enjoyed delicious tropical mimosas (I just had some passion orange guava juice) bloody marys and anything else they desired.
Melinda from CakeGoodness (the one who did my amazing dessert bar at the Gender Reveal Party) created the most amazing dessert bar with Lindsay's help. Lindsay made the most adorable Hudson sign, the cutest buckets for everyone to fill with candy, and they surrounded the area with blow up surfboards, beach balls, and lanterns.They had tons of themed candy including sour patch starfish, gummy turtles, gumballs, m&ms, beach ball hard candy, taffy and whirly pops. Melinda made adorable cupcakes, cake pops in sand buckets with pails, cake shooters, cookies, and the most amazing cake!! I thought she had made the sand castle cake in a pail, but it was all cake! It was truly a work of art and it tasted delicious too!! I had made a scrapbook page for everyone to write messages to Hudson on too that we placed near the dessert table.
The tables had gorgeous sand buckets filled with colorful flowers, netting, lanterns and pinwheels for the centerpieces. Plus we had the gorgeous ocean as the backdrop! Everyone admired all the little details then we all ate a delicious brunch spread that included french toast, eggs, potatoes, eggs benedict, waffles, salmon, shrimp cocktail, poke, chicken, carved ham and salads. I didn't eat much because I was running around talking to everyone (it was so much easier to see everyone since I was no longer on bed rest), but everyone said the food was really good.
After we ate, we played a game to see how much we all new about babies. Even if I got the answer right and the person I went up against got it wrong, they won a prize, so I think the point of the game was to embarrass me and prove that I don't know anything about babies. I did pretty well though and only got one or two questions wrong (I got more right than the competitors from each table).
After that everyone played Bingo while I opened presents. I could not believe how many gifts Hudson got! He is one loved and spoiled little boy.
Halfway through the presents we took a break so people could get some desserts and we played another game. Six people had to drink apple juice out of bottles and whoever finished first won. The funny thing was that my mom bought slow flow newborn nipples so it took forever and was apparently a lot of work! It was pretty entertaining to watch and everyone got a good laugh.
After the game I finished opening all the incredible gifts. Then we all enjoyed some more desserts before the shower wound down. It was such a fun day and the hosts really did the most amazing job! Thank you so much to everyone who came and showered Hudson and I with gifts and made us feel so loved! Thanks to Nic who drove me down there and packed up all the gifts after the shower. Thanks to Melinda for creating the impressive dessert bar. Thanks especially to the hosts who threw such a memorable event!
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