Jesse & Sarah's wedding July 16th 2011

Saturday in Richmond - a celebration of Jesse & Sarah's wedding which actually was on Jan 11th of this year in Jamaica!
Yes she IS pregnant! Due at Christmastime.
A small part of the crew relaxing in the shade. Estelle has fun with a Haven grandchild...
Addison sings 'Real Love"
Sara and Lena, oldest and youngest grandchild who had never met each other!
Renewal of vows, cupcakes looming....
Whiffleball......
Martha and Lena on 3rd base....
Estelle with Mark Fasching, my cousin Christa's husband and owner of Jericho Settler's Farm:
Lisa tries to manage the sprinkler and ends up soaking us all.....
Mom, her 11 children, their spouses (most of them, except Jeanne & Thomas) and most of the grandchildren (Sara R is cut off in this shot on the left).
Cedric and The Outlaws (and Dennis Bolio by proxy for Thomas):
Auntie LaLa and Lena
The Six Sisters!

The After Party: Swimming and S'mores around the campfire at Martha's:
Rachel and Lena:

Dan and Estelle on the swing at twilight:
Sunday July 17th, back in Glover - Colby, Sara's beau, endears himself to Estelle:
And just as she went to bed on the eve of her 5th birthday, Estelle lost ANOTHER tooth!
Meanwhile, not to be outdone.....

Sunday July 10th

We left Paul's after some fun swingset time and went to Martha's to cool off!
But first, a stop off at Thatcher Brook Elementary School's "natural" playground:








Cooling off at Martha's:
Mary and Jacob came over too:



Estelle drives the tractor:


Gossip girls:
Chalk drawing with the cat Lola:


Swings, again:
Out to dinner with Bec!
Food from my cousin's farm on the menu - Jericho Settler's Farm at The Farmhouse Grill in Burlington:


Jumping ahead from Sunday to THIS Sunday, today:
Here is my mom, Martha Alexander, with her oldest and youngest child, and her oldest and youngest grandchild! Joan and me (18 years apart), and Sara Rothman (my niece) and Lena, 28 years apart. It should also be noted that Joan is Sara's godmother AND my godmother! But she never sets foot in a church, except funerals and weddings, shapenote sings and occasional historical society events.

Up Up and Away

Saturday we headed to visit Paul & co in Waterbury:

After a yummy pizza dinner...
...we headed to Stowe for the annual Hot Air Balloon Festival!


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Lesley, Lauren, Chelsea and Paul h



And afterwards, maple creemees in Stowe!


Sunday morning: FRENCH TOAST!

The rest of our day was a lot of fun - we'll show you that in our next post!