So yesterday I noticed FMIL bustling around all over, making deviled eggs and potato salad and acting a little secretive. When questioned, she said it was all for a party DF's brother was going to that night. Then, one of DF's coworkers was leaving our house and he says "Have fun tonight, Liz!" (Turns out he nearly blew the surprise and DF was ready to beat his ***.) DF passes it off that he was planning on taking me out to Friday's for drinks and that's what the coworker meant. At like 6:30 we leave for Friday's but I notice we're going the wrong way and DF says he needs to look at this trailer and he's pretending to get lost and eventually we wind up at his aunt's house and he tells me he has to drop off a tool to his cousin. His aunt meets us out front and walks us around the back and then I hear............
SURPRISE!!!!! DF's family threw me a surprise bridal shower!
And can I just say it was BEAUTIFUL and
so much fun!!
It was a fairytale princess theme and there was Disney music playing in the background and everything.
FOOD
There was a lot of really delicious food, like aforementioned potato salad and deviled eggs (my FAV!!) and stromboli, fruit, chicken, etc... I didn't really get to eat that much because I was busy flapping my gums with everyone there.
Sorry, no food pics here yet. I only broke my camera out when it was time for gifts, but MOH might have some.
GAMES
We also played some fun games, like this one where they pass out a list of items that might be in your purse and the corresponding point values if you do. The person with the most points won a little goodie bag.
We also did this one game where MOH and her mom put all this stuff on a tray and I walked around showing it to everyone. They just told everyone to pay close attention, so of course everyone was trying to memorize the stuff on the tray. I walked inside and then they told everyone to write down what I was wearing! There was a lot of moans and groans that they fell for it and FMIL actually won the game!
The ongoing game throughout the shower was when everyone walked in they got a couple of those skinny, stretchy, plastic bracelets to wear. Anyone who caught someone else saying "wedding" got to take a bracelet from the offender. The person with the most bracelets at the end of the night won. I haven't played any games like those before at showers and really thought they were a lot of fun and did not cause any awkwardness for anyone who didn't want to play.
PICTURES
After food and games it was time to open the gifts! My neighbor was there and somehow she got roped into making the bow hat and she did a GREAT job! She was nice enough to make it double as a bouquet so I didn't have to wear it on my head too long.
Here I am opening this really awesome gift basket full of little kitchen necessities and it also had red, white, and blue lollipops and little bride & groom cookies! The next pic is a welcome mat FMIL gave us, but I really wanted to show off the castle balloon above me!
Last, this is my shocked face to find a nightie in one of the boxes (thanks MOH!
) Can you see how red my face got??
DF wound up staying at the party since he drove me and some of his boy cousins were there for him to hang out with. Here we are with my bow bouquet:
And here's me rockin' it on my head:
AND THE PART I AM MOST EXCITED TO SHARE!!!!...............
MY CAKE!!!
A girl I work with at school is also a pastry chef and she makes all of these AMAZING desserts for our in-service lunches, so Tim's aunt hired her to make me a Little Mermaid cake! It is SO cool! Around the sides it says "May all of your fairytale dreams come true."
MOH's mom also made me this really pretty cake out of towels! When I first got there I didn't realize it was towels and I was thinking the icing looked a little weird, but I guess that's why!!
And last, but not least, the favors! In the bags there's mints, princess fruit snacks, a glass slipper, a wand, and a picture of DF and I from the day we got engaged (the same one that's posted on the first page of my PJ.) I was totally surprised about the picture and it turns out FMIL was super secretive and snuck the picture out of one of my photo albums and I never even noticed!
There is also a little bridal shower book that was making its way around, but I was not allowed to look at it. I'm not sure when that's coming, but it looked really neat!
So I REALLY am on
today!! I thought it was so sweet of everyone to get together and do that for me. MOH has been in Europe studying abroad for the last month and a half, so her mother stepped in to help do what MOH wanted done.
Plus I know FMIL and one of DF's aunts really worked their butts off making it so nice. I am so blessed to have such wonderful people in my life!
Your party looked awesome and I'm so happy to be your dresstwin!!! 
Murphy had that same stuffed squirrel at one point! Does she like to chase them too?
I have three furbabies of my own, but my avatar is Val aka Indy Bride's sweet little Indy, named after none other than Indiana Jones the best ride ever at 
Your shower looked killer though!! And guess what? TWO WEEKS!!!!! I wish there was a countdown smiley! 
