Another Cousin Wedding

ON September 1 my cousin Jessica got married... hard to believe that we are all 'technically' old enough to be getting married, like all of our parents did at this age! Woof! But, before I show you pictures of that, I have this AWESOME one of my Nanny... doing her hair in the kitchen before the wedding... The very best part is that she is knitting a stocking. Now it's important for you to understand the significance... Nanny has knit ALL of her 4 children and their spouses (3) and ALL of the grandchildren (10) one of these stockings... and now, in the last year and a 1/2 she has been knitting stockings for the new generation of in-laws (now 3)!! Awe :)

Another thing is that there are a bunch of new windmills on our cape. Right now there are 11, but eventually, they are going to put up 51!! It's smart though... PEI is one of the windiest places on earth! They are sorta pretty and sorta ugly all at the same time -but they are HUGE!

Anyway, Jess and Mitchell's wedding day was fun! We had all of us cousins in attendance except for Janna (this picture is missing all the Ellis girls cause they were in the wedding party and hadn't yet made their appearance! Speaking of appearances, here is Jess right after her's! She and Mitchell were listening to the special music. I think Jess was just gorgeous that day (well, everyday!) but seriously she was a beautiful bride! Mitchell looked pretty proud of her :) It was a great wedding, with only one glitch (Mitchell's grampa wasn't feeling so good... there was a bit of an intermission -which I think I might schedule into my wedding down the road, just enough of a breather to realize "oh dang! I'm getting married right now!" and take it all in :D)

We got to take a whole Ellis Family Photo, which was great -again, only missing Janna. Dad was doing pop-a-wheelies with Pappy's wheelchair -I think he only found it funny for the fist 2 :P

After the wedding, while the wedding party was doing pictures, the fam all went back to the farm for a lobster lunch :) mmm... It was Krista's first time having Lobster -not too sure what she thought of it, she said she liked it, but I imagine it will be something that grows on her over time! But it was yummy for the rest of us -Pappy enjoyed himself, of course... awe... look at him, I love this man.

Then we were off to the reception in Summerside... speeches, dancing, cake, laughing, gifts, people, corny jokes, good food, and of course, the same almond butter crunch candy that all of our mothers have made forever -it is now the official "favor" at all cousin weddings to date :) I made all of us 'remaining' single cousins make a pact that there would be no more weddings in our family for another 2 years minimum!! -we've had 3 in a year and a 1/2 -woof!!

Congratulations You Two!! :) Mitchell, Welcome to our crazy and dysfunctional family :) Now bring on the great grandchildren, right Jess?? ;)

Happy Birthday Julia!!

In August a bunch of us were really sneaky and came up with a marvelous plan to kidnap julia and get her all the way to Peggy's Cove for a surprise Birthday party for her, of course, without her knowing it...

I was supposed to get her there, which is tricky cause I'm not always the best liar! But, we'd hung out the night before and were planning on going to Peggy's the next morning -the only problem was that we'd stayed up until 2 am and I had to get her to our destination by 10:30!! I was so worried that she's suspect something was up cause I am NO early riser and for us to be there on time would mean we'd get like 5-6 hours of sleep only... hummmmm. So, I made up some crazy excuse why we shouldn't sleep in but get to Peggy's asap in the morning.... "the summer is almost over julia and we have to beat all the tourists or the place will be packed!!" Ridiculous... I was SO sure she saw straight through me!

But she bought it!!! We were late, but we got there and she was SO surprised to see everyone waiting for her on a blanket on the rocks! I was perfect :D

We had an awesome breakfast just sitting on the rocks... random people (tourists) were taking our pictures as if we were part of the scenery, like the ocean or the lighthouse! We laughed a lot, toasted Julia with some sparkling apple cider saying all the things we loved about her (at which point I accidentally dumped my glass of juice in my lap so it looked like I peed my pants- great! :P) Anyway, it was an awesome morning, Julia was surprised and all was well in the world :) Love you Jules, Happy Birthday!

Fox Family Beach Day

This is a post I should have done a while ago, but I forgot about this day until I came across the pictures the other day! I guess I blew my OCD fetish about chronology! :P Oh, well, these pictures are just too cute to skip!

So, at some point in July the Fox's, Fox's, Esson's, MacLellan's, Kaley's, Watanabe's, and Macaloon's all gathered at Parlee Beach in New Brunswick for some fun, food, and laughs :) This was the fist time that I'd seen everyone since I'd moved home, so I had lots of fun playing with the girls in the water... Actually, Jada and I went searching for hermit crabs... she was pretty cute playing around in the tidal pools in the sand bars -she was scared of the crabs at first, but after watching how I picked them up from behind and put them in our bucket, she wanted to try too! When we got back to our patch of sand she exclaimed to everyone, "we got cwabs!" "you got what?" "Hewmit cwabs!!" She played and talked and patted them for at least 1/2 hour :)

Sydney and Patrick played in the sand for a while... apparently the little fishes were tasty... and Hannah was content in the water with her little bucket and matching swim outfit! :)

After a good time of swimming and hanging out we went to a picnic site for dinner! Mmmmm, what would a Fox Family day be without food?? ;) And more specifically, without shrimp... this time they were still frozen however, so Sarah came up with a plan on how to melt the ice!

We had lots of fun... good food, telling stories, laughing, playing Frisbee, entertaining children... a good day :) We took a family photo even! Something we haven't done in a while... we're still missing a few bodies, like Janna, and the Dreiers -but one of these days we'll get us ALL together :)

Here comes the Bride!!

After all the planning, hoping, preparing, and dreaming...

Here comes Kimmy (sorry, I was standing at the front and don't have pics of her coming down the isle... but she walked out to the worship song, "How Great is our God" which was amazing :) She was beautiful...

Kim and Min, and Kim's Dad and Mom (after the ceremony)

Maddie, Min's Niece was the flower girl


























Some layout/decorations ...

The head Table

Cutting the Cake

Frist Dance... apparently Maddie was feeling left-out :)

Amanda and her little man 'Maddox' & Brides Maids and some Groom's Men

Me and Kimmy Ho

Whitt 3 Girls Alumni

Briercrest Alumni (30 in total!)










Decorating the Car

There they Go... the happy couple... "Hawaii Here We Come!!"

Bachelorette and Getting Ready...

After a nice dinner out with Kim's Bridesmaids and a few friends...

We dressed her up and took her out!! :D

Her task, which she chose to accept, was to find 10 single men and get her picture taken with them... at the local park where there was a lively out door Band playing... the place was packed!

She asked many random men... but I think my favorite was the Police men :)

What's a Bachelorette Party without a little dancing in front of a crowd?? ... remind me to never get married for this very reason :D

So, the big day arrived... here are some 'getting ready' pics!

Kimmy getting makeup done

Sara, Nicole, Melissa and I all doing hair and makeup

Time for the Dress!!!

Min HO here we come.... :) "We're goin' to the chapel, and Kim's gunna get marrrrried..."