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Bridal Shower






I am done feeling sorry for myself and done ranting, so I thought I would move on. We had a bridal shower for Rustie on Saturday. I think we ended up doing a pretty good job. She had a lot of people there and she got a lot of cool presents and fun stuff. I told her it was up to her whether or not her fiance got to come and in the end, she made him show up. We only did one game and mostly because I thought it would be fun to do it. It was a trivia game all about wedding trivia. Crystal did an awesome job on it. We also did something while Rustie was opening presents; we asked her questions about her and her fiance, the answers were compared to how Rodger would answer them and if she got the answer wrong, she had to eat a piece of bubble gum. Now, I have to say, it was pretty dang scary - she only had to eat like five pieces of gum - the two of them know each other so well that she only got a few of the questions wrong. I couldn't have anwered the same questions about Ted and got that many right, and I KNOW he wouldn't have got them right about me.

I have to say that one of the questions made me a bit weepy - Rodger was asked who his hero was and he said "my mom". Sure made my heart pitter patter and makes me think that maybe I did a good job in raising him. He's kind of awesome!!
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