Jenn's Shower

This weekend in Provo, Jenn had two wedding showers. The first on Friday night (November 30th)was an Oldham Shower. Richard's dad is the middle of 7 boys, plus a sister. All the Oldham brothers started, have grown and run a printing business called Liberty Press. Each boy has stayed in the area and had lots of kids. Richard is one of 62 cousins that are within 10 years of his age on either side. Each time someone gets engaged, the family sponsers a shower with uncles, aunts, and cousins getting together to celebrate and give the engaged couple wedding gifts. The family first had a potluck dinner with beautifully decorated tables which Richard's mother put together. She is an extremely talented artist. (I'm sorry I didn't get a picture of the tables, I thought about it later). Since Richard and Jenn are getting married during Christmas time, all gifts were placed under a tree. The whole family gathered round, had Jenn and Richard tell their engagement story and then they opened gifts.

Saturday, Melanie and Katie sponsered a shower for all of Jenn's school friends, plus some of my favorite guests were Denae and Saren. They drove down to Provo in a snow storm to support Jenn which I thought was pretty neat

Jenn holding one of Grandma Gabrielsen's famous pieced quilts. It sure is a pretty one.