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Monday, August 06, 2007

A Wedding Shower!



My cousin Josh is marrying the sweetest gal this fall. Today was their wedding shower for our side of the family. We had one down here for her with us since she lives a few hours away... North meets the South! LOL! Probably a good thing to let her family get to know us a little bit at a time since we are quite a bit to take all at once. I remember the first time Kenny met the WHOLE family, we had only been dating about two months and I took him to the big July 4th Bash. He fit in just fine though!



The pictures today are of the gifts that I made for Josh and Brianna. She is doing her kitchen in a cherry theme and she got sooooo many really cute things. I can't wait to see her kitchen all decked out with the fun & pretty things! They tease Bri all the time about not being such a good cook, and if you know my family it is ALLLLLLLL about the FOOD! My gifts to her were an altered kitchen clock, a post it note holder/pen set(thanks for that idea BS#1), and a cookbook that I have been working on for over a year. It is a collection of over 170 recipes from family and friends.

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I have to confess that I am truly someone who works best under pressure. As of this morning none of her gifts were completed. The clock and post it holder weren't even started! I knew what I wanted them to look like, but was just having a hard time getting started on them. I think a lot of it was that the cookbook has been such a special project for me that it was hard to complete the first one. Kind of scared that it wouldn't turn out as good as what my expectations were for it. Now that I have the first one done.... everyone wants one! LOL!! (I keep telling them that Christmas is coming!)

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I also must confess that I was nearly in tears when it came time for her to open my gift. The suspense and apprehension was killing me! I wanted her to love it as much as I loved making it for her. I guess after working at it for so long it was hard to give it away. I think it is a little silly that I was so concerned that she would like it and even sillier that I got so emotional about it. Let me just say that I was not disappointed by her reaction and I am now relieved to have one completed copy of the book out there! I can also say that we are so blessed to have Brianna joining our family.

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Take care!


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

beautiful shower gifts!and where did BS#1 get the pattern for the post-it notepad?? i've never seen that before....maybe a makentake, huh??!! i'm glad she liked your gifts, but i can't imagine anyone not liking anything that YOU made! (bow down, bow down!) hope you have a better week at work than last. later.............BS#2

Anonymous said...

LOVE LOVE LOVE it! Great job!
BS1

Anonymous said...

Oh - and I'd love to know how you decorated the inside of the cookbook! Or was it just the typed recipes and the outside was decorated? Either way - it looks great. Anyone would be thrilled to get that!
BS1