Birthday's and Weddings

Last Friday October 19th, we celebrated Josephines 6th Birthday.

On Thursday Daniel took her to Chuck E Cheese, The Dollar Store(her very favorite shopping place), Starbucks, and lastly the Capitol so that Brian could do a photo shoot.










Friday morning, Kenneth-Lee and Isaac helped me make our traditional Birthday breakfast: Waffles with Strawberries and whip cream, while Priscilla hung streamers, and Daniel, Stephen,and the Twins, blew up balloons.















After breakfast and getting dressed for the day, Daniel helped her make an Angel Food Cake, with Strawberries, then they sat in front of the oven and watched it bake.



October 19th also happened to be the date that Mikal and Stephanie chose for their wedding,
(Mikal is the son of moms oldest friend Josephine Gross.)
Mom and Josephine met in the 7th grade in Germany where both of their Fathers were stationed in the Army.

The wedding was at 6:00 in the evening and not really a family event so as it was Jo's birthday she got to choose who went.
It was held in Seattle and traffic is usually pretty bad as well as directions, (we usually get lost there because a lot of the streets are named the same except for a distinctive "N" or "S" to mark the difference,) so at 3:30 Mom, Sill, Jo, and I were on our way.
We only took one wrong turn (because the name was the same as the directions) but after hitting a dead end, figured out which way to go.

After the wedding Ceremony we drove a few blocks to the reception, which was decorated with Red Roses, tea candles, and little white boxes with truffles.
Mrs. Josephine had told all her friends that it was "Little Miss Josephine's" Birthday and introduced her to so many people that Jo was exausted from greeting people.
After dinner we stayed for an hour or two so mom and Josephine could talk, then around 10:30 said our goodbyes and home we went.