A Merrymaking Fete

There’s always quite a conversation to be had between Janey & I whenever the subject of throwing some kind of party comes up.  It’s been this way since the beginning.  We both quite like to entertain, and we’ve had more excuses to do it this year than any before in our history.  Engagement, wedding, buying a house, moving, we’re having a baby, it’s a boy, and finally… the real live baby shower!! Yeah! Awesome!  

We have a few wonderful friends, and a fantastic family that want to have a shower to celebrate the upcoming baby.  They’ve said they want to buy gifts and do fun things.  Socialize and share stories, all at a shower thrown for baby Jessen …except showers suck and everyone knows it.

The shower scene is dominated by women. However, for a male man of the age that I am I can speak on the topic of showers fairly intelligently since I grew up in a house dominated by women, and also I have married one.  While I personally have only attended one shower which actually wasn’t bad at all (though I attribute this to my wife and family being involved), every story of every other shower that I’ve ever heard sounds like the kind of event that would make me bored to tears or say something like “really?” loud enough to offend the hostess. So what are we to do?

I’ll tell you what we’re going to do.  We’re going to throw an awesome party, outside, with meat on the grill.  Seasons be damned, temperature won’t stop us.  We’re going to squeeze one more awesome yard party out of this year if it kills us.

So friends, you guessed it.  We’re having a party in honor of the baby that’s currently taking up a bunch of my wife’s personal space.  Invitations will be going out this week and we’re looking forward to an awesome time.

The Invitations

I, not wanting to miss a chance to get all designery, put together an invitation with inspiration from this and this. 

the front of the invitation

the back of the invitation

Gifts

Gifts are always a strange topic with me. I hate registries. I don’t like telling people that I expect them to bring a gift. I want people to come and enjoy themselves and not worry if they’ll get looked at funny if they don’t give us something.

That being said… we are in need of many things little baby Jessen will use and enjoy when he comes into this world. So if someone does want to bring a little something, first I must say that we would appreciate it to a degree I can’t even express. We did go and play with the scanner while shopping at Baby’s R Us and we put together a wish list. It is pretty intimidating to see all the things that we’re supposed to have ready in list form.  So yes, I did break down & contribute to a baby registry to help anyone who does want to give a gift.

I’ll just sign off with this… if you want to come to the party, you don’t need to worry about a gift.  If you do want to bring a gift, bless you.  Please everyone just come and have some good grub and enjoy yourself.

Update

The printing is done, and delivery begins tomorrow!

the printing is all done