One of my best friends from high school, Heidi, is getting married next month so Lauren & I along with our moms hosted a bridal shower for her on Sunday, August 22nd! We had it at Mrs. Ehrhart's house and it was so much fun!
Let me take a step back and say that the Thursday before this trip, I started feeling sick. On the Saturday during the drive down to Atlanta, I thought I was going to pass out. I had the sweats and felt awful. It was my Mama Howard's birthday so we stopped in Chattanooga to have lunch with her and let her spend some time with Madison Claire. I was able to go lay down and take a nap in Chattanooga while they watched Madison Claire. Once we got back on the road I felt a little better but it was still touch and go. Lauren, Heidi and I had made plans to get together for dinner that night and I didn't want to miss the time with them, so I went anyway and we had fun talking about the wedding and reminiscing about old times. By the time we left, I already felt better!!
The next day was the shower, and I got up early so mom could teach me how to make her signature fruit centerpiece. I have seen her make it for so many different events but have never learned myself and decided it was about time! Madison Claire loved eating all of the grapes...maybe one day she'll want to learn how to make it from me.
We made it to the shower and it went perfectly. Heidi looked gorgeous and is going to be a perfect bride! Lauren and I had so much fun doing this together - coming up with all of the details and planing..what a blast!
I left on Monday to go to Portland for conference and Madison Claire stayed with my parents in Atlanta all week. They had a big time with her...they took her to work, to ride the carousel in the mall, and to see all of their friends. Impressively, the kept her on her schedule the whole week!!!
I made it back on Friday night in time to watch the second half of Ryan's football game online. The won for the second week in a row! YAY - GO LIONS!!! Saturday, we took Madison Claire up to the outlet malls in North Georgia to look for Sarah a diaper bag. We got her a great one from the Coach outlet!
Sunday was Sarah's shower. It was just beautiful and I have NEVER SEEN SO MANY PRESENTS IN MY LIFE!!! I had to write them all down and I'm not joking when I say it took 3 full pages! She and Ryan are so blessed by friends and family! It has been so fun to go through my sisters pregnancy with her...she is stunningly beautiful pregnant and is going to be the best mom! I know that I'm going to learn a lot from her!! I somehow managed to not get one single picture from the actual shower, but I did get this one of the 2 of us on Saturday night at my parents house.
After the shower, Madison Claire and I started the trek back to Nashville. She hadn't napped at all on Sunday so the car ride was rough. She had a full on melt down around South Pittsburgh, TN and I stopped at McDonalds thinking that an ice cream cone might just do the trick. Oh no...big mistake! She had the worst tantrum I have ever seen in that McDonalds. Everyone, and I mean everyone, in the store was staring at us. I felt so bad for her because that isn't her personality and she wasn't intentionally throwing a tantrum because she didn't get what she wanted....she was just so beyond tired she couldn't even function. It was pitiful. I don't know how we made it home but somehow we did and Ryan was BEYOND excited to see us since we had been gone for 10 days!
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