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Bridal Shower: Take 1
So I had my first bridal shower the weekend before last (Sept 6th). My mom, sister, and I all flew up to Michigan to have a shower given by my mom's family. It was a lot of fun!

This will be pic heavy, but I know you guys love that!



My wedding is on the beach, so my aunt decorated her house beachy.

Some of the prizes (the star fish candles):


We played two games. The first one I had to hide and people had to remember EVERYTHING I was wearing. My mom won(She is the right most person in the first pic). The second game we were given a bunch of common recipes (chili, apple pie, etc) with two missing ingredients. We had all the missing ingredients on a list and we had to place all the missing ingredients back with the correct recipes. My cousin Jonah's wife Jessie won that one (the baby Faith,is theirs)

You can see one of the other prizes, a candle holder with shells and mosaic tiles (my mom had already won it so she put her recipie list in it)


My cousin Teresa explaining the first game


My mom holding faith, with her sister (my godmother) looking over.


The one holding the baby IS not Jessie ;0 that is my cousin Kelsea who is 16.


The next thing we did was not technically a game, but I did pick winners. Everyone wrote down their best advice for marriage, and the best worst advice they had ever heard. That was hilarious! My cousin Teresa gave me the best best advice and my mom gave me the best worst advice, but since she had already won we ceded the prize to my grandmother (Who's advice was so hilarious and mortifying I cannot not tell you guys "Never say no, just lay back and enjoy" as good advice - the hilarity was compounded by the fact I read no as sex first. I read it out loud and everyone cracked up)
I read all the advice, saving the winning advice for each side for last. I had many bad advices that said "Never go to sleep mad", but one that used that as good advice. I thought that was interesting.

The gifts (And yes that IS hello kitty on the left) + more prizes (The brown boxes have seashell shaped candles):


Opening the gifts:


Food!:


Cake!


Me and cake!


After we ate I handed out the hostess gifts. Two scented anti-bacterial hand gels from Bath and Body Works, a pink nail file from Bath and Body Works, one tan and one green (our wedding colors) candle, a bag of pecans (we live in south georgia), a peach shaped chocolate, and peach cookies.


The guests (Every female on that side of the family: from grandmother down to great grand babies):

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