We enjoyed the week at the lake house with my son, his fiancée (now wife), and her parents who had come to visit from Germany. Other friends of the wedding couple visited sporadically, and stayed before and after the ceremony. Our daughter and son drove up to Virginia from South Carolina, but could only stay for the wedding, due to William's school schedule. William was a charming little ring bearer, who accomplished his job in style. He looked very handsome, also. Our week was exhausting as the house had three stories and many trips, up and down, were made. We boated, knee boarded, went tubing, fished and sunbathed during the week, as the rental home was located on a large lake. I'll be receiving more photos later and will post more.

We spent much of the week decorating, and cooking; the bride and her mother made lots of delicious German foods, while my contributions were all American. The bride's father spoke some English, so we communicated with assistance of the bride, acting as a translator. I actually dreamed that I could speak and understand German, Polish (all three bridesmaids are Polish) and Portuguese (my son and two friends speak Portuguese), but I awoke with only a small knowledge of those languages. Friends of my son flew in from California, Texas, New York and Brazil. Most others drove to join us at the lake house. It was a truly splendid week!
I missed 'talking' to all of you Cuties, but found an internet site, and occasionally, quickly downloaded a few alphabet letters.
Many thanks to Shirlene, who was commissioned to make pink FSL angels for the bridesmaids, lovely wedding couples in FSL for the grandparents who could not join us, and gold and white FSL angels for other family members. Sewdoctor digitized some lovely designs for us, and others volunteered to translate from German to English. I embroidered aprons for the family, which Nancy and I ventured to a supplier outside of Richmond, to buy. They were fine to embroider on, but did shrink and were difficult to iron. The hankies for the ladies were great, as were the table favors and Chris helped me with construction instructions. And when my machine had a glitch, both Nancy and Shirlene offered to help me out. I give thanks to all of you for your offers of help, your suggestions, the digitizing, the instructions and your words of encouragement. You are all wonderful friends.