Wedding Shower

We had a truly amazing day at Berean. I was sure it wouldn't go well, no wrapped Bibles and not enough helpers. That along with trying to do this on very little sleep after our long heart breaking day yesterday. But..God provides. Helpers started to arrive and each was greeted enthusiastically.

 Above Diane is making copies while Rachel is reading the letters, our new helper Jayden is opening mail with her grandmother Roma and Eva Jean is working on studies. Below Eva Jean is showing us her brace. Eva Jean had surgery and is suppose to wear this but usually forgets, today she remembered.

 Wes and Terren are busy opening the mail.

 Below is a touching letter.

 Jayden looks over to get her instructions while Chuck is busy reading the letters.

 Rachel took Wes and Terren in the conference room to fold the studies 1 through 4 along with a letter explaining the studies and a postage paid return envelope. These will get stuffed in the Bibles before the Bible is wrapped. Usually the Roanoke and Goodfield young groups do this for us but today we had to do double duty since we had no wrapped Bibles at all. 

Once the Bibles were delivered this same group single-handedly (well they each used both of their hands so technically it was 6 handed wrapped, labeled, stamped and hauled out over 350 Bibles. We don't know how much longer this can go on at our shop. This program is getting so big we are needing more volunteers than the office can hold. We are in desperate need of Bible wrapping. If anyone wants to volunteer a few hours a week please shoot me a text or email. I'll hook you up with a good job that includes out of this world pay. Why stick around and we are more than willing to double or triple your pay. Actually we make people around here work for food, today we brought in pizza to feed our hungry crowd. Mark dropped the Bibles off at the post office while I ran to Rabers to pick up the pulled pork for the shower tonight for Sarah and Nolan. As soon as I got home Emily helped get Ribbon and Indy covered. Both are still in and stood well but both stallions were a handful tonight. They were both too anxious to get the job done and both ended up rushing the mares.
After I cleaned up I headed over to Ruth and Fedi's house arriving early for the shower just in case I was needed to do something but Stephanie, Taunya, Anna, Rebekah and Ruth had everything covered. Ruth and Rebekah had the house decorated beautifully. The food was colorful and delicious.

 Below Sarah and Nolan have just opened a gift and Sarah is trying it out. While we were eating we, everyone was told to write 'words of wisdom' for the engaged couple. As they were opening the gifts those words were read to the guests.  That was a great idea. 

 The dessert bar was the favorite spot of the evening. There were hot brownies with cold icecream and a number of toppings just waiting to be drizzled over the ice cream and brownies.

 Below is the most unique gift of the evening. A weding cake made out of towels and utensils. Cute!

Taunya had all 3 of her kids there and favorite Aunt Rhodie was determined to carry all three.

 What a heavy load!

After the guests left Fedi got the snake out for Ben and Taunya's boys. They were impressed.

We had a busy productive day but now it is WAY past my bedtime and have another busy day scheduled for tomorrow.