Yes. My weekend in New York was so epic that it needs a two part blog post.

The best way to explain what happened this past weekend, is to go day by day. Hold on to your keyboards, blog friends.

Thursday

• Left work an hour early to head to the airport. I just made it on time due to road closures from all the flooding.
• Landed in NY at midnight to my Dad waiting! We chatted on the hour drive home and he sat up with me while I ate some leftovers.
• Crashed around 2am.

Friday

• Was too excited to sleep, so was up at 7.
• Major hugs and excited chatting with Kate, my oldest sister, and Jackie, my older sister, whom I had not seen in 15 months.
• Went to the flower warehouse to pick out what we wanted for the wedding shower centerpieces.

• Got my wedding hairdo tested at the salon with Kate, Jackie, and Mom. Their input was much needed and appreciated!

• Arranged the wedding shower centerpieces. This was Jackie’s handi work. I kept her company.

• Nana arrived!

• Tea time and catch up chatting.
• Walk around town with everyone. We got caught in the rain, but enjoyed a gorgeous, full rainbow for our efforts!

• Margot, my little sister, arrived! (Margot lives in NYC now and couldn’t get away till dinner time.)
• Wine tasting for the wedding wine. Woot!

• Dinner at home. Margot cracked us all up with tales of her CPR class.
• Shared a room with Margot, stayed up chatting for a bit.

Saturday

• Woke up too excited to sleep, again, at 7.
• Set up the tables, tent, and decorations for the shower. (Lies. I did nothing. Kate, Jackie, Margot, Mom, and Dad were decorating machines.)

• Nice chat with Nana over breakfast while sisters did super secret things related to the next 18 hours.
• Caterer man, Chuck, arrived.
• Sisters and I ran upstairs to get dressed. There was much trying on of multiple outfits, putting on makeup, and changing of underwear. (Note to self: Do not only pack hot pink or bright blue undies when planning to wear a white dress.)

• First guests arrive!
• Presents, hugs, catching up all pile up.

• Mimosas!
• Seriously delicious lunch of chicken and peppers, apple and walnut salad, wild rice, assorted bread, mini desserts, and more mimosas.

• Shower Game. My sisters emailed Rob Newlywed Game questions and I had to answer the same ones at the shower. Luckily, our answers pretty much matched. Some of the answers got a little rowdy, but it was so fun! It was so thoughtful of Kate, Jackie, and Margot to have Rob be part of it.

• Presents! I am just so blessed by all the generosity. I am honestly overwhelmed by the outpouring of love.
• General merriment
• Clean up. Many hands lighten the load. We had everything put away and tidied in no time.
• Trying to pack as many presents as possible into a suitcase to bring to Denver.
• Rush around house packing and collecting things.
• Dad drove us to the train to head to NYC for a night of bachelorette debauchery.

I can’t express enough how thankful, lucky, blessed I feel to have my family and our friends show such love to Rob and I. My feelings overwhelmed me during the shower as I opened one extremely special present from my grandma. I just lost it. We’re talking uncontrollable tears for a solid 3 minutes. This from the girl who very rarely cries. I am just seriously feeling the love over here.

And with that, I leave you until Epicness Part 2 – The Bachelorette Party to End All Bachelorette Parties – is posted tomorrow.

RQ: Are you ever too excited to sleep? How was your weekend?

Brooke Selb

I’m Brooke Selb, a Personal Trainer and Health Coach specializing in helping busy moms and moms to be to easily juggle mom life with family friendly recipes, and easy exercise routines to help you achieve your fitness goals that fit in with your already busy life with sound nutritional advice.