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Yesterday was Maggie and Zeke's wedding! Beeg old party day! Managed to happen even for the gal who's been telling everyone she was going to elope for years-- yes, my family manages to turn everything into a Big Old Party Day. (Instead of an elopement, it was a small ceremony at our-- uh, the parents'-- house followed by a buffet dinner for more people in a restaurant private room, then a few more people hanging out back at the house-- so not a huge traditional affair, but still a decent party).
Well, Sammy has started teething again, this time on the top, and I think he's got THREE about to pop, the two front and the one just to the left of those (the one I no longer have, there's some trivia for you), and I think they're crooked too, but anyway they're just baby teeth so maybe they'll straighten out eventually. ANYWAY, so he (and therefore I) slept really badly the night before and was pretty miserable most of the next day. He's also taken to rolling over and attempting to crawl away IMMEDIATELY upon my putting him down to change his diaper. SO it took a really long time to finally get on the road, but off we went and managed to get there still before everybody else except Jessie, who was carefully and geometrically arranging the dining room table with LOADS OF COOKIES, including these amazing cream-puffy things that were better than cream puffs 'cause they were made with flaky pastry dough.
For the ceremony the guests were mostly just immediate family-- Zeke's grandparents (our Grandpap couldn't make it), his aunt who's more like his father anyway (okay, a second mother), Aunt Dot and Uncle Harry because they're Maggie's godparents, and Aunt Peggy too but I'm not sure why she made the cut and the rest of the aunts and uncles didn't. And siblings of course. And Jessie, because if it had been a more traditional ceremony she might have been Maid of Honor so it wouldn't have been right to gyp her of that. It was officiated by the District Justice who lives down the street and whose daughters I used to babysit and (the eldest of whom) went to school with Maggie, so he started off by telling everyone about how they once all dressed up like the Addams Family for Halloween. The ceremony was short and sweet, and Zeke said "I do" about five times before he was actually SUPPOSED to, and also said "yeah" too at one point I believe (I suppose that's a good sign!); and then we spread out and wolfed down all the punch and as much of the cookies as we had stomach for before we remembered that we had to get to Blairsville for the reception.
The reception was at Pie Cuchina, this nice restaurant we went to after IUP graduation for one that happens to be (and I forgot this) right next door to the apartment building my grandma lived in for many years. There we met more of the extended family and some close friends. This was still quite a crowd (so imagine what MY wedding was like!). Somehow the seating chart got screwed up and a bunch of people got tags saying they belonged at tables that were already full, while meanwhile there was one table that NO ONE was assigned to, so Jason and I ended up sitting there with the Souths and three of Zeke's high school friends. The food here was, well, awesome, but now I'll go into detail: this amazingly awesome punch that was pineapple coconut with lots of frothy ice cream whipped stuff on top; MORE cookies, and cupcakes with a huge phlwap of sugar icing on top; wedding soup; garden salad; pasta salad; this INCREDIBLE cheese tortellini which was just about the best you could ever imagine and is certainly a better alternative to the traditional wedding Rigatoni; salmon with some stuff on it; some kind of chicken; and I think there were green beans also. And rolls. But the tortellini and the punch stand out.
It was a dinner reception, no dancing or anything, so we just hung out after we ate, mostly mingling around in the lobby and taking pictures, and we hung out there quite a long time until it looked like the staff was wishing we'd just leave so they could clean up after us; so then we went back to the house to eat more of those cookies. Maggie and Zeke opened some presents, Zoe explored the mechanics of a piano and then hosted a few games of Candyland Bingo, a few people (I'm not entirely sure who) kept having entirely too much fun with silly string, Sammy crawled around in his pajamas, and there was general joy and hanging-out-ness. Then we went home in time to beat the ice storm that was supposedly blowing in, but I think it ended up just being really cold rain here. Anyway.
I think that's all I have to say, but the important thing is not the words, of course, it's the pictures, so here they are here. As usual, tell me as soon as possible if that's a sucky link so I can fix it.
Oh, and before I forget-- TIME FOR THE CHRISTMAS-AMY DEFAULT TO SPREAD YOU JOY PEACE AND LOVE!
Well, Sammy has started teething again, this time on the top, and I think he's got THREE about to pop, the two front and the one just to the left of those (the one I no longer have, there's some trivia for you), and I think they're crooked too, but anyway they're just baby teeth so maybe they'll straighten out eventually. ANYWAY, so he (and therefore I) slept really badly the night before and was pretty miserable most of the next day. He's also taken to rolling over and attempting to crawl away IMMEDIATELY upon my putting him down to change his diaper. SO it took a really long time to finally get on the road, but off we went and managed to get there still before everybody else except Jessie, who was carefully and geometrically arranging the dining room table with LOADS OF COOKIES, including these amazing cream-puffy things that were better than cream puffs 'cause they were made with flaky pastry dough.
For the ceremony the guests were mostly just immediate family-- Zeke's grandparents (our Grandpap couldn't make it), his aunt who's more like his father anyway (okay, a second mother), Aunt Dot and Uncle Harry because they're Maggie's godparents, and Aunt Peggy too but I'm not sure why she made the cut and the rest of the aunts and uncles didn't. And siblings of course. And Jessie, because if it had been a more traditional ceremony she might have been Maid of Honor so it wouldn't have been right to gyp her of that. It was officiated by the District Justice who lives down the street and whose daughters I used to babysit and (the eldest of whom) went to school with Maggie, so he started off by telling everyone about how they once all dressed up like the Addams Family for Halloween. The ceremony was short and sweet, and Zeke said "I do" about five times before he was actually SUPPOSED to, and also said "yeah" too at one point I believe (I suppose that's a good sign!); and then we spread out and wolfed down all the punch and as much of the cookies as we had stomach for before we remembered that we had to get to Blairsville for the reception.
The reception was at Pie Cuchina, this nice restaurant we went to after IUP graduation for one that happens to be (and I forgot this) right next door to the apartment building my grandma lived in for many years. There we met more of the extended family and some close friends. This was still quite a crowd (so imagine what MY wedding was like!). Somehow the seating chart got screwed up and a bunch of people got tags saying they belonged at tables that were already full, while meanwhile there was one table that NO ONE was assigned to, so Jason and I ended up sitting there with the Souths and three of Zeke's high school friends. The food here was, well, awesome, but now I'll go into detail: this amazingly awesome punch that was pineapple coconut with lots of frothy ice cream whipped stuff on top; MORE cookies, and cupcakes with a huge phlwap of sugar icing on top; wedding soup; garden salad; pasta salad; this INCREDIBLE cheese tortellini which was just about the best you could ever imagine and is certainly a better alternative to the traditional wedding Rigatoni; salmon with some stuff on it; some kind of chicken; and I think there were green beans also. And rolls. But the tortellini and the punch stand out.
It was a dinner reception, no dancing or anything, so we just hung out after we ate, mostly mingling around in the lobby and taking pictures, and we hung out there quite a long time until it looked like the staff was wishing we'd just leave so they could clean up after us; so then we went back to the house to eat more of those cookies. Maggie and Zeke opened some presents, Zoe explored the mechanics of a piano and then hosted a few games of Candyland Bingo, a few people (I'm not entirely sure who) kept having entirely too much fun with silly string, Sammy crawled around in his pajamas, and there was general joy and hanging-out-ness. Then we went home in time to beat the ice storm that was supposedly blowing in, but I think it ended up just being really cold rain here. Anyway.
I think that's all I have to say, but the important thing is not the words, of course, it's the pictures, so here they are here. As usual, tell me as soon as possible if that's a sucky link so I can fix it.
Oh, and before I forget-- TIME FOR THE CHRISTMAS-AMY DEFAULT TO SPREAD YOU JOY PEACE AND LOVE!
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