Congrats Marjorie and Ken

My dear friends, Marjorie and Ken, tied the knot last night in Clear Lake. The wedding ceremony was formal and included traditions from Marjorie's Filipino heritage.

The veil symbolizes God's protection over the couple, the knot symbolizes being tied together for the rest of their lives.

Here was the first hint that the reception would be a big hit with me...a table full of homemade cookies! The whole room smelled like sugar!

Marjorie, Ken, and I all started working at ConocoPhillips at the same time (2003), and we were all in the same training class. We spent three months as a group in a classroom training setting and had tons of fun together that summer. Almost everyone from the training class was at the wedding. Here are most of the girls I started with.

Joanna, me, and Dorothy. We still see Dorothy at least once a year even though she lives in Kansas now. We met for a quick lunch before the wedding started.

And here I am with the bride, Marjorie. She will be moving to North Carolina while Ken finishes graduate school. I will really miss our monthly lunch dates.

Some pictures

Here are some pictures showing what we've been up to lately. Dan took this picture on Sunday. It was cold, but Lydia really wanted to be outside. So we snuggled up in a wool blanket and enjoyed the sunshine together.

Lydia likes to wave and say "bye bye" to me before she goes to play in her cabinets. She will bring all sorts of toys in here with her!

Here she is pretending to sleep in a box. I think "night night" is one of her favorite games.

Today I put this really cute tulle skirt on Lydia. She proceeded to find all her fairy accessories to complete the outfit.

All gussied up.

Twirling!