2 posts tagged “family”

So the next day after the lovely bridge ladies tea, my family threw us a shower for all my uncles and aunts and cousins. My Uncle Chuck and Aunt Phyllis were gracious enough to have it at their home and all my aunts worked hard to put things together. (with some help from some cousins!) And a big thank you to my Uncle Chuck for the photos.

Troy and I with my wonderful Aunts... soon to be wonderful Great Aunts. (from left: Nilah, Phyllis, Diana, Patsy)

Here are some of my cousins who also helped out with all the work: (from left: Tiffany, Kelly, Laura)

Uncle Chuck (left) and Uncle Larry. Thanks for having the shower at your house, Uncle Chuck and thanks to Uncle Larry and Aunt Patsy and their crew for driving down from Dallas for both showers.

troy and I at the beginning of the embarrassing "all eyes on us" gift opening. We are extremely thankful for everyone's generosity. (And Aunt Phyllis gets a special vote for the hand-made blanket)

... and here is Troy looking like a freak. I figure one of him is good since I feel like a giant freak in all the photos. It is only fair, right?

This weekend we went to Houston for Shower-polooza. We had a ladies tea on Saturday afternoon thrown by "the bridge ladies" (aka all the crazy women my mom has played bridge with for over 30 years. They have been extended family for as long as I can remember and always throw the most thoughtful showers. Here are my lovely hostesses (l-r Jan, Linda (who had the shower at her new house), Pat, and big Preggie-Magee.)

The other nice treat was spending some time with (soon to be) Aunt Soazig:

and (soon to be) Uncle Todd.

Everyone was really excited to see the baby bump. We had a great time. We went out to dinner also to celebrate Soazig's 30th Birthday and Todd and Soazig's 5th anniversary. Tons of stuff to be thankful for and happy about.