wedding+champagne birthday=super saturday

What a day Saturday was! Alex's younger brother's best friend was getting married and my sisters were having their champagne birthday (and yes, celebrating a few days early).

I woke up on Saturday morning, raring to go, with a cake to ice and all kinds of other stuff to do only to discover...uh oh...no hot water! Well, lucky for us, it came back quickly, but not soon enough to allow our day to proceed at the leisurely pace we had hoped.

After some rushing and scrambling, I gave up on icing the cake and Alex and I made it out the door just in time. The wedding was very beautiful and everyone looked so happy! The wedding was at Hycroft House, which is smack in the middle of Vancouver - I never knew such beautiful houses were right there, just off Granville Street! And it was a PERFECT day for an outdoor wedding. It was so nice - the bride and groom both looked wonderful and happy and very much in love...what more could you ask for!



When the festivities concluded, Alex and I returned home to ice the afore mentioned cake, collect Roslyn, purchase some champagne, and head off to the big, blow out mulvi-style birthday bash. Roslyn said she knew we had left in a bit of a whirlwind when she came home and saw the path of chaos I'd left behind...dishes half done in the sink, garbage that made it out of the can to the door, but not out the door to the garbage bin, coffee maker still full of coffee and still turned on, ironing board and iron (turned off) in the middle of the dining room, hair implements everywhere in the bathroom and let's not get started on the bedroom! Somehow we managed to ditch the semi-formal attire for jeans, make icing and ice and decorate the cake, and make it to the wine store to buy champagne in less than 45 minutes. If you know us, well, that's a record!



The birthday bash was typical mulvi-style. Tons of people, lots of food, an abundance of assorted beverages. Being the old folk we are, we left early, but by all accounts the party went on into the wee hours of the night (next day?!).

Rebecca is thrilled that this year she has officially been around for a quarter century!