Baby shower gifts

My daughter has two childhood friends who are both expecting their first child.

I had so much fun shopping for a gift for their showers.

I started with those dollar canvas totes

from Dollar Tree.

I needed both a pink one and a blue one.

Then I wanted to find as many of the same things

for each baby as I could.

Sara went to UVA undergrad and WVU for law school, 

two schools that are rivals of Va Tech.

I knew she would really be surprised if I bought baby items that represented those schools.

The outfit on the left is blue and orange for UVA.

I love to buy holiday bibs when I can find them, 

so I started buying those as soon as I heard the

girls were expecting.

Then I just divided them up so each had a few special bibs.

I also bought an assortment of plastic lined bibs and separated them by colors. 

Ashley got the pink and green for Apple Blossom,

a local festival, and red for Radford.

Sara got blue and yellow for WVU and

blue and orange for UVA.

I also bought bibs that had a chocolate chip cookie

embroidered on the front. 

When the girls cheered together, I made

chocolate chip cookies for the bus trips.

I also bought a book titled

I Hope You Dance.

The girls used that song/poem as part

of their graduation speech as class officers.

They both got tiny shorts outfits

that the babies may never wear.

But they were so cuuuuuuuuute.

Then I packed everything up in the totes.

Just so you know ~

the day I took these pictures 

the AC wasn't working.

I spread out all the gifts to make

sure they were even.

Then I put all the boy gifts in the bag, 

added the tissue paper, 

poufed it,

then realized I hadn't taken pictures of it.

So I took it all back out of the bag,

lined it up and photographed it.

Next I put all of the girl things in the bag,

added the tissue paper, 

poufed it,

then realized I hadn't taken pictures of it.

YES, I did it TWICE!

Can you believe it?

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