Last weekend, our incredibly sweet church friends and families of our two bubble (flower) girls threw us a super fun wedding shower where we played games, ate cake, and opened a whole slew of gifts. His parents drove up from Southern Illinois and surprised me with their attendance, our friends from church came to share their love and laughter, my sisters were all there to make some noise :), and my niece Morgan was there in her outfit matching Ryan and I.
We started with a word game where I was allowed to play, but not win. And I totally won, for the record. Next there was a Ryan & Heidi trivia game, and then there was some yummy, yummy snacks and cake.
After the games and the treats, it was present time. We were completely blown away by how many people were sweet enough to attend and/or bring us so many wonderful gifts. We received everything from gift cards to fancy blenders (I don't think Ryan has eaten solid food all week due to his OBSESSION with that new kitchen gadget) to gift baskets filled with treats to personalized drinking cups to an ottoman to store my 15 blankets that live in a pile in my downstairs hallway in case there is a tornado. I was also super spoiled with some gorgeous pearls to wear at the wedding from Ryan's parents!!
While we loved literally everything that we were showered with, perhaps the most creative gift goes to my sisters. They presented me with two boxes; one with the word "cold" on it, and one with the word "warm" on it and I was instructed to open the "cold" box first. Upon opening it, I found a hooded sweatshirt and sweatpants and was told that this was for when Ryan insisted on keeping the house cold (when we started dating, I kept my house at 78* no matter the season. Over the last 14 months, Ryan has inched the thermostat down to 70*, and we don't even live together yet. I don't even want to know how cold he keeps it when he has half ownership over the temperature!), and then I opened what I now call "the great equalizer" gift. A super cute, super skimpy nightie that elicited the now famous, "where's the rest of it?!" comment from one of our bubble girls. Well played, sisters! While you can see the trepidation on my face at first (you NEVER know what those girls are going to do!), I LOVE it!
Throughout present opening time, we were also gifted with no less than 7 hand made cards from one of our bubble girls, and we took them home to open one by one. While they were all fantastic, this one certainly takes the cake for me:
While I was oohing and ahhing over how adorable it was, Ryan very helpfully pointed out how thin he looks and how I appear to be about 5x larger than him in this depiction. I explained to him that having arms coming out of your head gives an illusion of largeness, but seeing as how he has similar arms growing out of his ears, it turns out that the 5 year old just thinks that I'm fat. Fat and wearing a crown, so I cant complain too much.
Despite the "a drawing adds 195 lbs" situation, it was a completely perfect day and we appreciate everyone who came to celebrate with us SO MUCH! Thank you to everyone who made it so special for us. We can't wait to see you at the wedding!!
No comments:
Post a Comment