On Saturday I headed to California Pizza Kitchen at the Arizona Biltmore to shoot a baby shower for Karina & Susan.  Since baby showers tend to be a pretty girly affair, Ryan opted to let me cover this event without him. It’s a good thing too, because the place was packed!  There was barely room for ONE photographer :-)  Ryan and I had a wedding to go to later that night so I was only able to stay for part of the shower, but I had a great time capturing this very special event.

Karina and Susan are good friends of my sister Amy.  Karina and Amy work together as labor & delivery nurses at Maricopa County hospital.  You may remember her as the party planner extraordinaire from Amy’s shower way back in July of 2008.  Karina & Susan are expecting their first baby, a little girl named Greyson in April.  From all the friends and family that showed up to celebrate with them, I’m sure that Greyson is going to be well loved :-)

As is usually the case with baby showers, there were lots of fun details.  Kudos to the party planners!

I super loved the cake made out of diapers – doesn’t SOUND very appetizing, but it made for super cute baby shower decor :-)

There was a real cake too of course!

Party planner Jadie putting some finishing touches on the decor.

Here’s a shot of the mommies-to-be surveying all of their goodies!

They’re doing Greyson’s room with a Lamb theme so there was plenty of cute lambies in among the goodies.

He he he . . . this gift bag made me smile :-)

A few of the happy party goers . . .

What baby shower would be complete without a baby?  And what baby is more adorable than my niece Makena!  Amy, Makena and our Mom showed up right before I had to leave, but I managed to grab at least one quick shot of her “working the room”.

Here’s a shot of Karina, Susan and all their “COPA” friends

One last shot of the Mommies-to-be :-)  Thanks for letting me be a part of your celebration – can’t wait to meet Greyson!