My Favorite Girl

If you were at our wedding this past weekend I have no doubt you noticed our fabulous flower girl, Guinevere LIttlejohn. She rocked it! Gigi and I have a special relationship. She once referred to me as her favorite girl, which made my day. Since then we’ve been buddies. Her mom, Tamara, teaches 4th grade and our classes do many different activities together.

I love seeing the Littlejohn family come and go outside my classroom window, waving or stopping by depending on their schedule. Bradley (Mr. Littlejohn) is so kind and caring, often holding Jude, conversing with Gigi, and minding Martha, their dog, in the same breath.

When Guinevere found out that Barry and I were getting married she brought up the idea of being a flower girl and wearing her pink Easter dress.  Of course, we couldn’t pass up such a perfect idea. Before the ceremony Gigi was one of the few people that I could converse with that didn’t seem to be worried about details (was the food going to be ready, drinks made, cake cut, aisle ready, grandparents in shade, etc.).

We had conversations about stickers, flower petal tossing, and why I chose to wear flip flops and not high heals. She was shocked that I would choose flippies to high heals, as she was wearing pink sparkle shoes. (I’m telling you, she rocked!) Shortly before Barry and I hit the rose petaled aisle Guinevere serenaded us with a beautiful song from the movie Enchanted. At that point we weren’t really worried that our flower girl was going to drop out for fear of people staring at her.

Of course I didn’t get to see Gigi walk down the asile. I do know that my favorite girl tossed, tossed, and tossed from her basket until there was nothing left to toss. She was beautiful, brave and full of energy. After the ceremony I hardly saw the Littlejohn family, as they had another Anacortes event to go to.

On Sunday morning I woke up and noticed a tiny pink flower on my calf muscle. It made me laugh because I had given Guinevere a sticker book as a thank you gift and she stuck me with a sticker….oh, that girl!

*Thanks Megan for the pictures.