Late Flowers

(I had really hoped to get back to blogging, but as you can easily see, I am not really succeeding. So as so many popular blogs do, I am inviting a new author to help me out! Laura has asked to write posts for me, and that sounded like a great idea to me! So here is her first post. Perfectly picked, as she is our flower lover. She has been planting flowers in the vegetable garden since she could walk. Her brothers think this is a BIG waste of spaded dirt.)


We still had FLOWERS in November! It didn't frost until mid December here.
So most of the flowers that we had planted for the wedding were still looking pretty.
So here are a few of my favorite pictures of our autumn and almost winter flowers.

 Marguerite

 Dahlias

I think this was a Dahlia that the soccer brothers knocked off its stem.

 Cosmos

 

Rose

 Black-eyed Susans (that is what the French call them)

 Hypericum

 The forsythia decided to flower again in the fall. 

Sunflowers

 

The flower bed.

I hope you all enjoyed my very first post! 

After the wedding...

 My dad has always been fascinated by Deux Chevaux, or as he calls them, "Uglies." Stéphane thought he ought to get to take a drive in it!

 The "newlyweds" chatting together.

Saying goodbye to the Rojeks at the airport in Berlin.

Meet the Newlyweds

We hoped to surprise a few people by putting up the wedding pictures without too much information. It worked!! Of course, the wedding date was picked and the wedding prepared in short order, so it's not like we had lots of time to get everyone up to date!

So, now for a bit more info. Bill is Philip's dad, who was a widower after Sophie, his wife, went to heaven in 2008. He is 81 in case anyone is wondering! We are both hoping to be in as good of health as he is when WE are 80.

Stella went to Prairie Bible Institute at the same time as Bill did 60 years ago. Bill even proposed to Stella back then! But it was not to be. (Philip had to be born, or this blog would not even exist!) Stella was a missionary, lived in Quito, Ecuador part of her life and sang on the radio in Ukrainian.

They met again last year when Bill was in Canada, and decided they ought to get married. So they did! They probably set some kind of record! Getting married 60 years after proposing!

Wedding in the family

Weddings are great times to take pictures!!! We were missing Jérémie and Peter so we couldn't take any good family photos, but here are a few taken on March 6, 2010. If you didn't know someone was getting married, that is normal. We only had about a month to plan this wedding. And if you don't know WHO got married, the pictures tell the story!

 Of course the girls were thrilled that someone was getting married. Finally a chance to be flower girls. The boys played along, but they were a little less thrilled.

They sang several songs in honor of the bride and groom.

In France, the church has no authority to marry a couple. So a wedding in France has two steps. First stop, the town hall, where the couple is officially married by the mayor.

Bill and Stella with the mayor.

Bill and Stella with 6 boys.

Instant Grandma!!! Bill and Stella with some of the 31 grandkids.

Cousins! If there is a baby in the room, Mélanie is probably holding it!

Stéphane with his uncle Timothée.

The happy couple.