Amanda's Baby Shower

Once in a while you are blessed beyond measure, completely unexpected and undeservedly. One February day my cup ran over when I happened upon the three of the most wonderful women. I say blessed because I was, I had started, begrudgingly, a Bible Study and these three women were assigned by my church. It is hard to believe that we were placed together, harder to believe that has been so many years since we met. But over time, we have met, become close friends, some of us got married, some of have babies, and through it all we have stayed close friends. There are four of us,Leslie, Caitlin, and Amanda.Through tears of joy and tears of pain they have stood by me, and I by them.

Amanda is having a baby, a little girl due Nov 12. We are overjoyed by the new addition to our ridiculous guacamole obsessed group. But we are also completely devastated as Amanda and her husband are moving away. Despite the overwhelming sadness, we had to celebrate this new little miracle and we did so at Tea Time. We used Eric Carle "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" as our inspiration.

12 teas were brewed and labeled with butterfly cut-out notes.

We choose a Saturday at 3 pm to start the Tea. We used my mother's lavish living room and gorgeous deck as a back drop. Together the girls and I celebrated with a menu of various teas both hot and cold, canapes and sweets. We placed everything on a large dinning room table except for teas. We used an antique Italian tea cart to hold the various brewed teas as well as honey, lemon, sugar and cream. The iced teas and the watermelon limeade were placed on the table with the rest of the menu items. The Watermelon Limeade was our signature drink and that in a gorgeous Carnival Glass punch bowl.

Amanda's Butterfly Tea Menu

Home-made iced Butterfly cookies.

Smoked Salmon, herbed goat cheese spread on Cucumbers

Caprise Salad Skewers

Fig, honey, goat cheese canapes

Herbed goat cheese balls

Fruit Skewers with cream cheese dressing

strawberry baby bunt cakes

Various Tarts

Butterfly Cookies

Raspberry White Chocolate Scones

We planned the party for the afternoon. We had our meal on the porch and then came inside to open presents and do our planned Baby Shower Activities. We had a Baby Trivia game, a design your own Baby Bib, and we all signed a copy of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Favors were homemade royal-iced butterfly cookies with Thank you notes.