Mr. and Mrs. Allan Taylor

I haven't taken any pictures since the wedding so until I do, I'll just keep posting various wedding shots. These ones were taken by the official wedding photographer, Elsa Duff.

Baby Flower Girl

My grand-daughter, Eloise Hardwicke-Brown, was the honorary baby flowergirl. Her dad, Quincey, made the tactical error at the reception of giving her a red frosted cupcake. These pictures are the result of that episode. Thanks to Mickey for these pictures.

Emily's Wedding Day

What a busy couple days it's been. Last night we had the rehearsal dinner and a meeting of the families. So much fun. We really enjoyed meeting Allan's family. His parents are great - we really hit it off. Today was the wedding in Sara's back yard - everyone looked so nice - especially the little flower girls. Then we all went downtown for the reception which was another three hours of fun. The best thing about a family wedding is having dear friends and out-of-town family to visit with. Of course I had an emotional meltdown early on - after all, this was my baby getting married - but managed to rally and enjoy the fun. I didn't take a lot of pictures because Elsa was there as our professional photographer and I know her pictures would be better than any I'd take. I'm looking forward to seeing them. In the meantime, here are some of the few that I managed to take.

The final phase of the wedding happens tomorrow morning when all the out-of town family are getting together for brunch. And that's it - I have no more kids to get married. I've told them all that there'll be no do-overs, so they better make these marriages work :)

I just noticed that there's no pictures of Allan the groomsmen and Allan's family here. I'll wait till I get Elsa's, then post them.

Visiting With Great-Grammie

Mum arrived today and Kenzie and Sydney were eager to come and see her. They've been talking about her visit for awhile now. Mum was glad to see them and enjoyed their visit. She'll be seeing a lot of them in the next 2 weeks. Both little girls are flower girls in Emily's wedding on Saturday - it'll be so cute...but that's another blog entry for next week.

Mum is 87 and has Alzheimers so quickly forgets the names of my children and grandchildren. We'll be reminding her of names quite often over the next couple weeks. I'm glad she enjoys the kids though, and they're quite fascinated with her advanced age...and the fact that she can take her teeth out at will.

Baby Cousins

9 month old cousins, James and Ellie, were together this morning while their mothers went to their bridesmaid dress fittings. They were so cute together. We had two highchairs with a tray only on one of them, which they shared.

Sharing Grandkids

Mickey brought her grandson, Eamon, over today to play with Max and Charlie. It was the first time the kids have met and they got along very well. Max and Eamon are both three and Charlie is four so they had lots of common interests. It also gave Mickey and I our first chance to visit since before I went to BC. A very enjoyable morning. These pictures are ones Mickey took and emailed to me. Thanks Mickey.

BC Branch of the Family

Although we lived in BC (Prince George) for six or seven years throughout the past 35 or so years, and four of our children were born there, none of us has been back to live there since 1995. Ten months ago Mary and Greg moved away from the Alberta center of our family and settled in Oliver, BC, the wine capital of Canada. I find there's a real psychological factor to having one of our children's family on the 'wrong' side of the mountains - makes them seem farther away than they really are. That's what makes visiting them special.

On my last day there, last Thursday evening, we went out looking for nice locations for their first family picture since Baron joined the family. This is what we ended up with.