Saturday we were able to have a bridal tea/shower at our home for Christina! She and Miguel are having a wedding ceremony in July and with summer almost here, she wanted to have the shower before I left. So with the Lord's help we were able to pull it off without much time to plan, and it all worked out!
Setting up for the tea party....
Mommy worked really hard to make everything just right for the party. She put a lot of love into each item...
Almost time for the luncheon to start...
These beautiful tea cups were an answer to prayer! We only own one normal sized tea cup with a saucer, but once again the Lord provided through a family friend who has several in her collection!! They were perfect and all the ladies enjoyed using them...even the younger ones!
Signing a card.....
Christina arrived and we were running late, so she graciously waited inside the living room till everything was ready!:) Here she is excited and ready for the tea party!
It was fun to see the younger girls enjoying the experience of making and drinking their own tea....
After lunch, we all came inside for some games. Someone had joked about playing musical chairs and so we decided to do a few impromptu rounds of it....Christina won!;)
The younger girls got to have their own round too...:)
One of the games we played was a challenge to draw a wedding dress with your eyes closed, unless you very young.;)
It was an interesting and fun experience to see a room full of girls with their eyes shut drawing! It was definitely very quiet and you could hear the pencils clicking away...:)
Christina and her best friend Amy working on their drawings.....
Judging.....
After the games Christina opened gifts....
With lots of love...:)
Visiting with her friends in the last few moments before they needed to leave....
A picture of us older cousins....
All her Aunts....
These hardworking mothers got a chance to "put their feet up" after the guests had left.:) It was good to see them all enjoying a chance to visit and relax.....
The guys got back not long after that and were more than happy to help out with all the leftovers...;)
Having fun.....
The boys had a fun early morning beach trip, then the park and lunch at Mexicasa.
Mommy and Aunt Kimberly went to spend some time together after the shower, so Uncle Victor and the kiddos spent a few hours with us! The guys always enjoy that.
Janelle collecting her siblings to leave.....always hard to do when you're having such a good time..:)
With six boys our toys consist of a lot of guy stuff. The girls, Emily, Rachel and Evie needed some feminine encouragement to get their minds off of swords and guns so we went into the bathroom and styled their hair for fun.
It was fun to curl Evie's hair for the first time but overall, she was simply not impressed with it. I was glad because as much as we want to encourage our girls to be feminine we don't want to encourage them to be vain. We talked with the girls about how the real "prettiness" comes from the inside by obeying what the Scriptures tell us to do and that that is what God is most pleased with.
Showing Daddy....
It was really sweet to see how both girls were so very pleased with whatever "Daddy" thought was beautiful.....
With that said, I think this is a good way to close. The Lord is interested in our hearts and our appearances, but they need to be kept to the standard He sets and not what we like. Just like little girls look to their Daddy's for "beautiful" so we should be looking to the Lord for His "beautiful."
Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing, but a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.
Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Proverbs 31:30-31
