Megan Shares Photos of the Baby Shower She Hosted

This is a guest post from One Hundred Dollars a Month reader Megan from Michigan. 

Hi Mavis!!

First let me say a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone for their suggestions on the baby shower I hosted last month.  It was a great help to me, and I settled on 2 amazingly tasty and easy soups. If fact they went over so well that I was asked for the recipes!  I chose to make the Copycat Panera Tomato soup because I could easily adjust it to be vegetarian. And the Chicken Taco soup (clearly not vegetarian!!) ha. 

The mom to be knew my plan to freeze any extras for her, but… it all got eaten. Good problem to have!!!  No worries though, I made another batch for her and froze them in small single serving Ziplock bags. 

Also a tip for everyone – I found all my printed material templates such as invites, thank you cards, games and posters on Esty!! Way easier for me to just print out the amount I needed.

The day began calm as planned!

Then quickly turned into a mad rush to decorate as a lot of people arrived super early! Which worked out fine, I just had to tell myself to roll with it!

As you can see the food was hit!  Homemade soup and bread… with a big salad with all kinds of toppings to make it your own!!! Sadly I couldn’t get a picture of the food table until after the crowd went through it!

I did however get a picture of the cupcakes……..which were so cute!

In the end it was a wonderful shower, the mom to be got some great gifts for the baby (mostly hand made gifts – how great are these folks!!), and the wonderful ladies who attended all won some prizes, and left with a thank you cookie!

My sister and I, (with my future nephew!)

~Megan in Michigan

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