We have been busy this week and will continue to be as we get ready for the wedding next Friday. Mother has been working on menus, sleeping arrangements, and lots of other last minute prep. We thank the Lord for His help in this potentially stressful time!! We are so thankful for friends and relatives who are helping with making food and housing people. We have lots of people coming in for the wedding: friends, relatives, and members of the wedding party.
So yesterday Mother made menus for the next couple of weeks in which we will have company.
Today my aunt Esther and her daughter Maria helped Mother and me make a lot of food to freeze (while Emily played with Esther's three younger daughters). (Pictures of today with them below) One of our friends is graciously letting us use her freezer and has made some desserts for use at the rehearsal dinner.
The boys, Jeff and Jason, are now off work until the 15th (I think), as they finished this week and have off for the wedding. Daddy is also is off work (until the 17th).
In the near future we are looking forward to lots of trips to the airport, different people staying at our house every night, and lots of fun being with our friends and family for a short, speedy time!
As for tomorrow (4th of July), we are going to clean house and vacuum out the cars. One of us will pick up Tim and Brenda, and Brenda's mom at the airport in the evening. We are anxious to see them! We were planning to have friends from PA over for the 4th of July, but they were unable to make the trip to CO for the wedding and a visit, so we aren't doing that. We're just staying home and getting more ready for the wedding.
Pictures of us and the Mendezes today:
Mother standing in front of some brownies.
Aunt Esther and the casserole she was mixing, which she made with Mother.
Yes, Maria did make 4 boxes of brownies and I baked a whole bucket full of ready made cookies (from Sam's Club).
As I said before, Em played with our cousins while we worked. Daddy took (L-R) Sarah, Kwani, Hadassah, and Emily to the grade-school park nearby. Here they are on the leaning arch play equipment. Don't they look nice? :)
