Stone's Stories: You're Never Too Old For a Tea Party!

My cousin, Dustin, and his wife, Amber, are having a little girl towards the end of March and we are really excited to meet little Adeline! Amber's cousin, aunt, and friends threw her a shower on Saturday and it was one of the BEST showers I have ever been too!! It was so creative and so, so, so much fun. Those girls (and a few guys) know how to throw a party!!

This was the invitation each of us received in the mail......

I don't know if you are can read it or not but it says, "You are cordially invited to a Mad Hatter's tea party to celebrate Amber Autery's very merry baby shower." A little further down the invitation it says, "Please wear a hat & follow the White Rabbit to....". At the bottom it asks us to RSVP or "Off with your head!"

Once I walked into Amber's cousin, Jessica's, house I was in complete awe of the decorations. First of all her house is A-mazing! It looks like it belongs in a magazine, it is decorated perfectly. They put it on the market and it had 3 offers two days later!

But anyway, back to the decorations! Look at the table where we had our tea party...

Everyone had china place settings with their own tea pot sitting on their main plate...

One of Amber's friends looked up "Vintage Tea Pots" on Ebay, which is why all the teapots are so unique!

We had cucumber sandwiches, chicken salad on endive lettuce leaves, ham/turkey sandwiches (I think, I didn't eat one of these), cookies, and some other pastries - ALL home made. Then we had hot tea straight from London with cream, sugar cubes, and lemon slices. Yummmmmmmmmm!!

Here's the desert table...

The drink station...

This is where I sat and the tea pot I began the tea party with (I'll explain more later)...

The guest(s) of honor!!! Look at that feather on her hat :)

My Mom and My Grandmother

My Grandmother and I

Cassie (my sister), Penny (my mom), Mawmaw, Amber, Piper (my aunt), and Me (I look HORRIBLE in hats, don't judge!!)

Jessica painted the sign behind us and it is now hanging over Adeline's crib...so cute!!

A look at the table as everyone sat down for tea. Aren't their hats awesome?!?! We even had 2 guys join us - one dressed as the White Rabbit and the other was the Mad Hatter!!

As we drank our tea and ate our pastries we played a really fun game. We were asked 10 questions about Amber and her pregnancy. Whoever knew the answer just yelled it out, which was frustrating for the few teachers in the room....Aunt Piper ;) Once someone said the correct answer they were allowed to "steal" someones tea pot and give them theirs. Then the person who had their tea pot stolen could either keep the one they just got and pass their turn to someone else or they could steal another persons. This happened 3 different times in between questions. The frog, ladybug, monkey, and duck were a few favorites. Then after we answered 5 questions everyone was instructed to look under their chairs and find a playing card. Whoever had the queen of hearts was allowed to pick from a set of gifts. Amber's aunt ended up getting the queen card and chose Bath and Body Works lotions. After this we finished the question game. I started off with the green tea pot with a frog and flowers on it. During the course of the game I had the duck, the monkey, and humpty dumpty - which is the tea pot I came home with. After the tea pot game several people were handed little wrapped presents based on certain questions (i.e., the oldest person, the one who traveled the furthest/least) then Sara (Amber's friend) read a story containing the words "Left" and "Right". Whenever she said "left" or "right" you had to pass the gift that direction and when the story was over whoever had the gifts were allowed to keep them!

After the games we moved into another room and Amber opened all her gifts then the shower was over.

Here's my Humpty Dumpty tea pot next to the roses Bryan got me for Valentine's Day ;)