Wedding Shower

We're just winding down from a fun weekend having flown L down to Claremont from Oregon to throw her a bridal shower yesterday. With 20 people in attendance, we really only had room for everyone outside, and we were thankful that the weather was not nearly as hot and muggy as it had been the two previous days. The borrowed E-Z Up helped keep us shady.

What fun to have worlds collide as we gathered people who have known our daughter since she was one and have watched her grow up, to softball friends, to besties from jr high and high school to a friend from grad school. It's times like these that help us pause and reflect on the bounty that we have in our friends - our community.  We are very blessed.

I don't really enjoy silly games at showers, so we only played one game - How Well Do You Know the Bride? People filled out the questionnaire which had choices such as - Does she prefer Mountains or Beach? Pizza or Burritos? Christmas or the 4th of July? We had 20 such questions, and the two top winners were the friends she walked to school with nearly every day at El Roble and CHS (one of whom who was even a college roommate!). Mom and sister did not play - it wouldn't have been fair.

One of the tricks was figuring out how to get her lovely presents back to Eugene on the plane, but I somehow had an old suitcase (so old it doesn't have wheels) that I kept meaning to give away, so it was perfect (and big enough) to handle the bulk of the loot gifts. We have a little time to figure out how to get the rest of it up the road.

People have been asking me if I am frenetic with wedding plans, as mother-of-the-bride, but since the wedding is in Oregon, L has been making all the plans herself, so this shower was my biggest job, and I am so glad that it was such a lovely event.