"Sprinkle" Us!

Recently, my dear friends Ashley and Lindy hostessed a baby "sprinkle" for Baby Charlotte and myself. The term "sprinkle" is a clever play on words. Since this is our second child, Ryan and I received many generous essentials before Cade was born at our "showers." This time around we received many wonderful girly items for little Charli Kate at the sprinkle.

Ashley made this cute wreath for our hospital door out of pretty pink fabrics! Lindy created this adorable name banner! She came up with a great idea to place the letters as the background on Charlotte's memory book pages.

The table was beautifuly decorated with flowers and yummy treats. I thought that the fruit baby carriage was super creative!

The diaper cake the girls put together, had super cute accessories... bunny slippers, cupcake hair clips, a rattle and a teether! They also chose a cross for the nursery that had pink, blue and green decor with a the Bible verse, 'The Lord your God will be with you wherever you go,' Joshua 1:9.

Lindy also had a yellow floral travel bag personalized with Charlotte's name, which we will be taking to the hospital in October. It isn't pictured, yet, but it is absolutely beautiful!!!

Our lovely hostesses, Ashley on the left and Lindy on the right :)

We had many loving friends and family attend the sprinkle. Thank you to everyone who was able to join us in person and also those who sent warm wishes! We love you and cannot wait for you to meet our Charlotte... She is already such a blessing!

Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

We received confirmation a couple of weeks ago that we are having a little girl :) We are over the moon about her! Ryan and I have deliberated many names over the past few months. For the time being we have settled on Charlotte. We even like Charli (many thanks to Cousin Cara for spelling suggestions!)as a nick-name. I was shopping for fabrics for little Charlotte's half of the nursery a couple of weeks ago. My whole life I have dreamed of decorating a nursery for a little girl in lavender or purples, possibly even a dark pink. But, alas. When I was looking at the fabrics, the only colors that I (the baby) wanted were sage greens, powder pinks and rose buds. Everything will turn out cute but I was so surprised at these choices! However, the colors did remind me of one of my favorite books from childhood... Geraldine's Blanket. Pregnancy is so strange.