A Three Dress Wedding

It pays to plan and be organized.  Daughter Sarah's wedding on Monday the 29th went so smoothly! Now I can't believe its over and done with and I have two married daughters and two wonderful sons-in-law.

Sarah picked out a lovely wedding dress.  It was perfect for her and for the occasion.  But she didn't stop there.  Her friend Alice in China sent her a Chinese wedding dress and at the last minute after practicing dancing in a long skirt she opted to change at the brunch reception in the last hour before the toasts, cake cutting and fun dances into my wedding dress from 1974.

Which dress do you like the best?

The ivory wedding dress.  Photo courtesy of her new father-in-law.

Here she is with me and daughter Emily (older sister) prior to the wedding.  Pearls and veil have yet to be placed.  Photo courtesy of Emily's camera.

The red Chinese wedding dress with bride's maid Kelly in background. I took this photo at rehearsal.

 The blue wedding dress, mine from March 1974.  I wish it still fit me!  It was perfect to do the Lindy Hop and Salty Dog Rag.  Photo courtesy of Emily.

 Here she is with William, her new husband, cutting the cake.  It was a carrot cake. I don't have any photos yet of her in her ivory dress with William in his tux.  Photo courtesy of Emily.

 Sarah and William at the rehearsal.  Photo courtesy of Emily.

What a fun day and the weather cooperated, too.

Holidays

Happy Holidays to You and Yours!

As Christmas approaches so does the wedding day for my daughter Sarah.  Time to blog is limited.  Time to read blogs is too. Lots yet to do including putting up the Christmas tree.  Photo above is from last year.

Let me just wish you a Happy New Year, too while I'm at it.

I'll get back to this in 2015!

Turkey Trot - Part 2

Streets were closed off on Thanksgiving morning as we walked in Washington DC.

We headed east on Pennsylvania Avenue then turned south on 3rd Street in front of the capitol.  Turned west on Independence Ave to 7th Street where we made a u-turn back down Independence to 4th Street where we turned right for two blocks and then around a block to 3rd Street where we went north to our left turn west on Pennsylvania Avenue for the final leg.

I can identify some of the buildings along the way but not all.

The Old Post Office is being converted to a Trump Hotel.

The National Gallery of Art.

The Newseum - a great museum!

Canadian Embassy

The Capitol with scaffolding around it as repairs are being made.

Washington Monument in the distance down the Mall.

National Archives.

The J. Edgar Hoover Building - FBI.

Saw this as we walked to our car after the Trot.

The newest Smithsonian building of African American History and Culture.

Turkey Trot - Part 1

Thanksgiving morning we got up early and headed down to Washington, DC to participate in the 5K Turkey Trot to support SOME (So Others May Eat).  We walked the 3.1 miles.

Gathering point was Freedom Plaza.

Crowds of people - 10,000 in all was the numbered mentioned.

Nephew, Owen and niece, Meredith, prepared to run it.

Brother, Steve and his wife, Paivikki will walk.

Sister, Bonnie and husband, Joseph will run.

Dan and I before we set out.

The organizer, my sister, Marie and her husband, Scott ran it.

Niece, Elena, a runner with her daughter who walked.

My oldest brother, Phil who ran and came in third in his age group.

And we're off.

The runners soon pass us by and we set a steady pace among the walkers.

Final leg of the walk.

Finish line in sight.

Time to completion: 1 hr 4 minutes 17 seconds.