Baby Shower from the Church Family

I had the wonderful honor of being thrown a beautiful baby shower by my church family recently. It was such a great way to share in the love and excitement of this little girl and I am eternally grateful to all of the girls that helped put it all together. There were some great decorations, food and lots of fun games! I had a wonderful time fellow shipping and got lots of cute gifts for baby Ohrvall. Here are a few pictures from the shower.

Some of the girls having fun playing a game where you had to draw a baby on a paper plate while it was on your head! It was a little difficult and we had quite a few funny pictures!

My homemade guestbook with advice from each guest on little onesies. I absolutely loved this idea and the frame and advice is now hanging in baby girl's nursery.

Cutting the cake.

Another game where you had to try and get as many cotton balls into the small bowl as possible in just 3 scoops while blind folded. Funny stuff!

Sorry the pictures got really out of order but this is from the drawing game and me choosing the winner.

I appreciated all the great gifts that baby Ohrvall got at this shower! They will all come in great use!

The cake was really beautiful and even better tasting! :)

We also had some awesome cupcakes from Infusion. (Infusion is like Guam's version of Starbucks.)

Lots of food that everyone brought!

All my gifts! :)

Great bath salt party favors! All homemade too!

Once again I want to thank all the girls that made this possible and for making me feel like I have a family here on Guam!

Thanks for reading!

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