Bryan&Melissa

Bryan likes to group things together to make this phrase: ______, everywhere!

This last weekend, we gathered at Allyson and Kelly’s house for a baby shower in honor of Steph and Casey. A joint shower: the girls would drink champagne, snack on cucumber sandwiches, cheese and chocolates, while the boys went on a pub crawl. It was a very fitting way to mark the approaching addition to their life.

Every baby shower I have been to has some sort of contribution/gift to the expecting mother. For Stephanie, sister-in-law Allyson and her co-hostesses had asked each person attending the shower to submit a photo that would be added to a book for the to-be child. It was such a fun way to share friends and family with a child through storytelling.

Here is ours. We wanted to add more color than just a photo, so here is our rendition of “under the sea with the Ripkas”.

Under the Sea: a baby shower gift