Sam & Leah's Wedding - Part I

September 12, 2015 - We're at the lovely Mays' farmhouse...

...the crowd is all gathered...

...and it's time for the wedding of Leah and Sam!

Oh, and first a thanks to Ashley for helping me get the lens cap off of my camera 

(which, if you remember where we left off, was still jammed during my visit to the exhibit on Nazi propaganda, and must've been initially jammed at Ashley's birthday party.)

All that to say, since I wasn't having to use my phone to take photos, this is the only selfie in this post - and actually the only selfie I took all day.  Aren't we glad...

...especially when there are so much cuter faces to be getting pics of:

Okay, now that you're caught up on the drama of my camera lens cap, let's move on to the ceremony:

Leading the grandparents to their seats

Parents of the groom

Heston escorting - wait...that's Wyatt...

And then the groom sees the bride coming

Mr. Mays gives Sam her hand

"Turn and face each other"

The bride and groom and their parents praying together...I love these snapshots...

For this reason a man shall leave his father...

... and his mother...

Unity sand

and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.

So they are no longer two, but one flesh. 

What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.

It's 12:01am, so I'm going to have to end this post with...

Continue to part II

Fall Party

Some video clips from the fall party hosted by the Mays family.  Includes some footage from the team obstacle course, some bull-bucking and some four-wheeling.  That evening we roasted dogs around the campfire, went on a hayride and ended with some dancing.  Thanks again Mays family for such a fun day!

CHEF 2012: Day 2

I’m just too tired to wake u-did you say they have a “cooked to order” breakfast?

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CHEF 2012: Day 1

 

(Technically Day –1; the day before the conference began)

1/2 Food   1/2 Clothes

  After checking in to the hotel and unpacking we ate snacks in the lobby and met a few familiar faces and began a conversation and concluded in a jump in the pool.

It was a great evening so I took a stroll outside the convention center.

We spent the next morning helping vendors get their booths setup.  There was quite a crowd of fellows and many hands make light work!  However, it was still thirsty work so thank you again to Kate Whittington for picking up sodas !

Yeah, it looks like we’re working hard.

What with all of the sessions and shopping and meals it’s hard to socialize too!  Why not kill two birds with one stone? 

I’m sure there’s a more complimentary way of phrasing that.

After the last lecture…that word sounds much too dull…we joined friends in the hotel lobby for some cards.

Casual Skip-Bo…

…and an intense game of Dutch Blitz-a CHEF Conference tradition.

                                           “Are you looking at my cards?”

Now back to the casual Skip-Bo…

 

  Is that a “5” I seen in her hand?

Look!  In the sky!  It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…

“Suermann!”  (No, that’s not a typo)

1:20am