Stevie's Baby Shower

NOVEMBER 2011

My brother Mike McDonald and his wife Stevie were expecting their first baby due in January 2012.  She was pregnant with a baby boy!  I was so excited to throw her a baby shower, since I have only girls.  I did a nautical theme, because both Mike and Stevie love sailing and even worked at West Marine.  The theme was "Ahoy!  It's a boy!"  We did a breakfast brunch at my house in on Carnegie Ct in Riverside.  Complete with a egg soufflé, yogurt parfaits, fresh fruit and assorted pastries.  Of course, no baby shower is complete without baby shower games!  So we played a memory game with assorted baby items, and guess what's in the diaper!  For the diaper game I melted different chocolate candy bars and melted them into diapers.  Each person then had to guess by sight and smell what the chocolate was.  So funny!  We all had a wonderful time showering Stevie with presents. 

 





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Gwen (9 months) Melissa and Lorelai (2 1/2) Lane

I used sailing flags to decorate the banister and the antique family bassinet to hold presents

Guests waiting for Stevie to arrive

Lorelai kissing her baby nephew!

3 generations!  Samantha, Joni and Stevie Jo

Mother, daughter and grandma

Game time!

Mommy to be



 

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Leisa Plocher is a little unsure of this!

Don't worry, its chocolate!

Great aunt Carol Horn and cousin Stacy Loveridge

Katey Carlson.  In it to win it! pictured with Leilani Swann and her niece Lorelai Lane

Leisa Plocher and Susie Sewell holding baby Gwen

Arianna Mouradjian holding baby Gwen

Carol Ludloff Horn, Stacey Loveridge and Suzette Ludloff



Ready to pick a prize

Fun with auntie

Sister fun!  Leilani Swann and Katey Carlson

Great Aunts Patti Morrison and Linda Castle (our late grandma joanne's sister and sister in law)

Ashley and Brielle Parker

 

Arianna, Leilani and Katey.  Arianna flew out from Rhode Island to come to the shower!

Baby Gwennie

Leisa Plocher, Susie Sewell, Andrea Grout, and Lorry Chamlee

Stevie and Andrea

Stevie and her grandmother Joni

Early Pregnancy and Friends

2008

At Deanna's baby shower for baby Caitlin.
Katie Breyer, Deanna Cohen (pregnant with Caitlin), Melissa (pregnant with Lorelai)

Christi Postoian and I took the girls, Delani, MaKayla and KaiLee, to the Mission Inn to look at lights.
I was 4 months pregnant with Lorelai 

Baby Shower: Family & Friends

BABY SHOWER 2009

Baby Showers!  I was so lucky to have 3 baby showers!  My sweet cousin Katie Larson threw me a baby shower for all my friends and family at her home in Newport Beach, California.  We made babys out of playdoh, opened presents and ate cake!  What a fun day it was and how blessed I felt for everyone coming to celebrate me and the baby!  

Katie Larson and Melissa Lane



Katie Larson and Bailey Ludloff



Melissa Lane, Audrey Reisenhofer, Ashley Tenerelli

Katie Brassieur, Melissa Eckhart, Melissa Lane

Grandma Susie Sewell and Melissa Lane, Patti Morrison (background)

Grandma Janette (and her playdoh baby) and Melissa

Melissa Lane and Great Grandma Beth McDonald

Christi Postoian and Melissa Lane

Linda Castle, Carol Horn, Patti Morrison, Melissa, Beth McDonld