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Oh you betcha, Shark Week is huge in this house.

We have been counting down the days since….well yesterday when we saw the ad. We don’t watch much television mmkay.

But it is here, and we must celebrate.

I looked all over the internet for Shark inspiration to help everyone get excited….this is what I found.

The best shark party I have ever seen….seriously how cute are those shark fins. Chris over at Celebrations at Home is a party planning genius. I’m just in love with all of her little details.

Speaking of party details, I am going to try really hard to make this.

It will probably just turn into watermelon mush though, and I’ll tell Tim I was trying to make a “shark attack” melon. Smart girlfriend award right here. Thanks.

And really what is a Shark Week party without ice cube fins? Of course they are in my Amazon cart.

And yes, I will sing “Dun dun, dun dun. dun dun” When I take a drank. Mom, I meant to type “drank”….it’s a gangster thang. “Thang” is too. Ok, I promise I’ll use proper grammar from here on out.

I really want to eat one of these shark cupcakes, like right this second.

Freaking adorable cupcakes. Once again, mine would just look like a tidal wave.

Okay, enough food or I might have to get up and gain five pounds! How about these koozies? Do I have any friends that crochet?

If I do…then I want one of these for Labor Day. That’s the next holiday right? I mean after Shark Week, because that is a holiday in my book.

If you are having a Shark Week party, you should really invite me. Make cute invites, put “Beware of Sharks” signs in your yard, and then make these bad boys.

I will rock those shark hats. Fo’ sho. Opps, sorry mom. Gone gangster again.

Timbo wants to rock this shirt while I rock my shark hat.

I think I will buy it for him, with my fin cubes. He’d look like a rockstar.

Speaking of rockstar, check out this girls nails then check out her pants. Holy awesome.

I will not even attempt that. I do not have the patience.

I will attempt…after my watermelon shark….this plate.

There are a lot of tutorials for making plates and glasses and such. I think you draw on it and then bake it or something. If it doesn’t work out, then I will just die of ink poisoning. Then I’ll suck it up and buy that one.

How adorable is this necklace? Who knew sharks were so sexy.

And last but certainly not least….my kids are so doomed.

Till then…..my dog is so doomed.

Can I just dress everything that is defenseless up in shark costumes?

To top off all of our excitement for Shark Week, the boys from Tanked just finished a shark tank for Tracy Morgan. Soooo now we need our own shark tank, so that every day can be shark day.

Hope everyone is as excited as we are. If you aren’t then reread this post.

I had never thrown a baby shower.

In fact I am not sure that I have ever been to a baby shower. I mean I am sure I have, but I have always blocked that stuff out because I never really cared much for babies.

Until I met Tim, and decided that I wanted to have twenty-seven of them. That’s just a starting point.

Then each and every one of my friends got pregnant. Something to do with Fifty Shades movement or something, I’m not really sure. Now I am planning baby showers left and right.

I have a little practice in the party planning area…I threw her bridal shower and bachelorette party last year.

But the challenge here, besides it being a baby shower, is that she lives in Pennsylvania. Which means no traveling when she’s about to pop, which means throwing a shower without knowing the gender until a week before the shower.

Mission impossible….accepted.

Without knowing the gender, I had to make the invites neutral. Have you seen the “gender neutral” invitations lately? Gag me with a spoon. This baby was not of the rubber duck variety. Quickly decided I needed a theme. I scoured Pinterest for ideas…tea party? ready to pop? library themed? They all left me feeling a little luke warm.

Oh yea….also….I am lazy. Cleaning the whole house, just to clean when people leave is not my idea of a party. I am a firm believer of enjoying yourself at parties. The only logical thing to do was to pick a venue which I did not have to clean.

If you knew the future mama…the one thing you would know for sure is her love of Mexican food. It’s basically what we bonded over, and the thing she misses most about good ol’ Missouri. The fine, not-very-clean-but-delishious Mexican food. It was only appropriate to celebrate her at a Mexican restaurant.

So we had a feista….to celebrate One Hot Mama.

The very first step was the invites. I found a designer I liked on Etsy and gave her my basic “theme” for the shower. She took it from there and I couldn’t be more thrilled with how they came out. Spicy….

I called the most delish place I could think of, Hacienda. I gotta say that they rocked it out.

It was bright and fun and the food….oh the food.

The food was the hit of the party for sure….I mean besides this girl.

Throwing a One Hot Mama themed baby shower was a hoot.

Lots of “rattle maracas”, “leis”, “baby pinatas”, “new daddy mustaches” and well…fiesta shades.

Now if you actually read the 241 words that started this post you remember that we did indeed find out if it was a girl or a boy about a week before the shower. So of course I had to throw that little tidbit into all of the details to let everyone know.

Get ready for “detail overload”

When walking in our guests got to sign a little onesie for baby Brooklyn, then they grabbed a homemade pin. And the games begin.

Yes I actually wrote a poem…..my mom is so proud.

I made the pins for the “Don’t say baby game” by spraypainting clothespins hot pink and the hot glueing cute scrapbooking embellishments.

They stayed in that awesome formation for about three-point four minutes.

Guests also got to grab a homemade gamecard. Really labor-intensive stuff, just printed on cardstock.

So that we could play the best game ever.

If only we could have gotten a guest appearance by Bob Barker.

I packed the prizes into cute little polka dot pink lunch bags and then threw a strip of tissue fringe to fuss them up a little.

I however, did not account for multiple people guessing correctly in Baby Price is Right. Should have had at least forty more prize bags.

I did have enough baby pinatas though.

These things were great! Just got cute candy cups, filled them with candy and girlied them up with ribbon and tissue fringe. It was super easy and made the most adorable favors.

I also filled a little picture frame with a sonogram picture so that everyone could sneak a peek at the little dumpling.