Monday July 4, 2011

 

Busy, Fun Days in Preparation For

Nathaniel & Abby’s Wedding

Wednesday, June 29 & Thursday, June 30

 

 

It is fun being grandparents to the bride. We didn’t have to do a lot, or know what was going on – and our garage was the holding area for many supplies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It was also fun to have our house be the place where some early wedding gifts arrived. This one came with food and paper supplies for a picnic. (There is a frozen 8 x 8 tinfoil container of macaroni & cheese in the freezer that will fit in this pretty baking dish.)

 

 

 

 

 

Abby’s future sister-in-laws knew she needed these pans for baking brownies for the wedding.

 

 

Abby spent several hours on Wednesday and Thursday baking two kinds of brownies.

 

 

 

 

 

 

While she made brownies on Wednesday, I made chicken corn soup for lunch, as her parents and four of her five siblings were staying here. Josiah arrived during the night on Thursday.

 

 

These marble-sized jell balls were the result of putting tiny beads in water, and will be used in vases at the reception.

 

 

 

 

On Thursday Abby’s sister Elizabeth (center), mom (our daughter Diane), and I enjoyed lunch at Olive Garden with our youngest daughter, Deb – who was footing the bill for Elizabeth’s twenty-fifth birthday – which will happen in a few days.

 

 

The desserts were fabulous.

 

 

 

 

 

 

By the time we got home there were several more pans of brownies cooling in the garage. This particular pan was going to be covered with creme de mint icing. Half of the brownies were covered with a cream cheese toping.

 

 

There were also many boxes of crackers for the reception entree – “Chicken on the Ritz.”

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Tomorrow night – Wedding Rehearsal

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