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The Wedding of Seth & Jessica
The day of the wedding was cold at 21°F but bearable for those of us from Arizona… if you dressed in layers. That is the secret I have learned after almost freezing myself a few times up there which I may have or have not mentioned several times before now! Some things about visiting the Great White North in the middle of winter sticks with you. 🙂 Serenity and another young lady were the guest book attendants. Justus was an usher and Audrey was an attendant handing out programs. Waiting behind the scenes. Jessica (my new daughter-in-law) was raised on a ranch where they have several thousand head of…
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Simply Beautiful – My Niece’s Wedding
It was a perfect day for a wedding. No rain which was amazing in itself because it rained a lot the whole week we were there. The guest book table. (I took this picture the night of the rehearsal so try to disregard that vacuum in the background.) Zoe did a beautiful job doing all the writing on her wedding program. The reverse side had the order of events listed out. Waiting for the wedding to begin… My mom and some of her grandchildren… Zachary & Hannah provided the music. It was beautiful. Grandfather’s blessings… Planting a bonsai tree. This was fitting since Zoe has…
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An Arizona Wedding Reception for the Newlyweds
After all the planning and cooking, it is done. Seth & Jessica were married in Canada in February and because most all of our friends didn’t get to come, we gave them an Arizona reception this past Saturday. I have to be honest. I was somewhat dreading it. I am not the most creative when it comes to food presentation and for past graduations that I’ve had in our backyard, I have depended upon my sister. This time she wasn’t here to help with the food table so I stressed a little until my daughter-in-law, Hannah stepped in. She’s very creative and I love her style so I can see…
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Getting Ready for an Arizona Wedding Reception
The newlyweds have arrived in Arizona! They’ve left the cold, chill and frozen ice of Canada and have traded it for a month of sunshine. The cabin (VRBO) will be their abode and our second guests! Welcome to the cabin – a cozy 1 bedroom retreat in the country. My husband built the barn doors and installed them. There are two barn doors. Both openings into the bedroom can be closed off with the sliding doors. The kitchen sink, counter and bottom cabinets still need to be built and installed. (I think that will be next week.) It’s such a nice comfortable place! (Click on this link to see…
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Putting Our Vehicles Through All Kinds of Tests
Finally we reached a decision on what outing we wanted to do with some young people that were staying at our place. We had headed out the door, leaving behind our 4WD Open-top Blazer that is sitting in a sad state since it is not working properly at the moment. I don’t know exactly what’s wrong with it but it’s something rather serious like the steering wheel shaft is broken. Yeah, not so good. So off we go in 2 trucks. Less than 2 miles from our house, Seth’s ball joint on the axle broke. The whole axle fell – plop! – right in the middle of the road. …
