Amanda's Wedding Shower and a changing world.

The shower was so beautiful this past Sunday. The food was as wonderful as the company. Amanda received wonderful gifts for her new home and memories were created with the scrapbook pages everyone made. I was excited about the idea, but the finished product was breathtaking. If guests did not have pictures to use, we had cameras and printers to take them right there. I was amazed at how talented everyone was. I posted my page, but after seeing everyone else's, I think I have some room for improvement. I spent several days working on shower gifts and decorations and Amanda's mom spent weeks. She had the creative ideas, I was just a grunt worker. I seemed to be missing that creativity gene. We gathered recipe cards, advice cards, and scrapbook pages from all the guests. All the table decorations were given out as gifts for the guests. There were fresh flower arrangements, votive candles, candy bags, and tea cups filed with flowers. Teresa made a cake out of towels and a Newlywed Survival Kit. It was a fun day. Everyone pitched in for the food, set up, and clean up. Now I am excited for the wedding. I still need to find a dress!

The last picture I posted was Cheri and Christina at their new home this fall, Adrian College. Simone (Christina's mom) and I took the girls up there today to look around. After all the college visits we took the girls on, they went to Adrian on their own and we had not seen it yet. We even found a nice dorm manager to let us in the dorms and she even gave us a tour. We missed the bookstore though. It closed at 2 PM so I told the girls we would take another trip up there just to buy some spiritwear in a couple of weeks.

Things are flying by this summer. I leave tomorrow for my Yearbook conference for 2 days, then Seattle Friday for 6 days, then Cheri's party the 12th, the wedding August 7th, then Cheri is off to Adrian August 16th. I feel like I'm running and having trouble keeping up. I'm kinda glad I don't have too much time to stop and think about how much my life is changing. Shane (Cheri's boyfriend) just brought me a video of Cheri that his aunt made us. We were watching it and what memories! There has to be several hundred pictures on it and it is all to music that makes me cry without the photos. I'll have it running at the graduation party. It is precious.