The end has come, time for the shoes to come off of the sore feet & be put away & become a reminder & memory of a wonderful occasion, never to be forgotten. The planning, the shopping, the creating, sewing, decorating...all the hardwork has paid off for two beautiful days & evenings of celebration with wonderful family & friends. It's wonderful to have this blog to document it all & be able to revisit all the fun pictures to help us replay every moment in our minds.
As we are cleaning up & putting things away, Coriann has to take time to pop the bubble wrap with Kiana Holst. Coriann knows how to have fun...I hope she never forgets when she has her own children. You can see Cori's scraped knee from a tough basketball game.
Who wants some fisheys to take home...we sure don't want them all.
Time to gather the gifts & have another Christmas-like celebration, as they are opened. Many thanks to those who are helping Janica & Seth with things to set up their home.
Another memorable time for the Ellsworth family as they are working on their life together, forever.
Time to carefully put away all of the special pictures & artwork.
Time to say goodbye to the photographer.
It's now our turn to try out the scrumptious food. A cute BYU shirt picture of Janica & Seth is on the TV screen in the background left corner.
Time for the tradition of cutting the cake.
We shake hands with the last of the guests. Here's Jay shaking hands with little Eastyn Holst.
A pose in the garden scene.
A clearer picture that has Madison Empey taking video for us, of the evening. Katelyn, also helped out I believe.
A little blurry, but the table to the right has many of the Hawkins children & the center table is Bishop Rick Nielson & his wife, Lana, & Bret & Teresa Gledhill.
Jim, Ann, Danny Stoker & Megan, their daughter. Bart, Susan, & Jeff Hawkins, good friends & members of our ward.
Wade & Nancy Schultz & their sons, Travis (his girlfriend) & Eric (Farva), who are good friends of Janica & Coriann, & always were at our home for every party our girls had. Coach Wayne Riner & his wife, Janae (our girl's loved him for track, weight training, etc.) & Danny Stoker, from our ward.
Guests mingling & enjoying the yummy food.
Janica & Coriann greeting, Ken Benson, who is a great man of the older generation in the Basin.
Tim & Stacey Taylor, Beckie & Chris Eskildsen & son, Bergen & Leonard Marble, whom our girl's love.
These are the only family members that were able to make it to this reception. Seth's parents, Scott & Annalisa E., Janica's parents, Jay & Janece W. & Janica's sister, Coriann, the maid of honor. There were other relatives that were going to try, but the weather made it too difficult.
They seem so happy & perfect for each other.
The beautiful bride & handsome groom are ready to greet their guests.
Guests are arriving and signing their congratulations & best wishes. Here we have Scott & Tamlee McGary.
The guestbook is open & ready to be signed. Pictures of the bride & groom are on the left side & places to sign on the right.
We have wonderful help in the kitchen. Here are just a few that helped. Karen Eden, Walt & Patricia Lowe, Maria Holst, Susan Hawkins, & Michele Casper.
The sign directs the way for guests as they arrive.
Kevin Salisbury, the photographer has arrived & has started to take pictures.
The candy dishes are full are ready to go.
The fish are put in the bowls & the lights turned on under the bowls.
The lantern lights are being turned on ready to go.
Janica & Seth's shoes patiently waiting for them to put them on their feet, for the reception.
We're getting our corsages & boutonnieres pinned on. I'm helping Jay with his.
Here I am getting Janica cinched up in her wedding gown.
This is an overview from the opposite direction of the last picture. You can see the big screen TV that I mentioned below, in the far left corner of this one.
This is when we were playing with the lights to get the right effect & ambiance for the reception.
The Salt Lake temple quilt I made with the help of sisters in the ward, & the picture displays are to the left of the guestbook & opposite from the cake & food tables. to the left of this in the corner was a big screen TV with a slideshow of pictures from dating & the wedding being played.
The guestbook table is to the left of the gift table & there is a little fountain with pink rocks, & a battery candle. A double white lamp post is to the left of this.
This is the gift bench, which is to the left of the stage. The white basket is for cards. I got most of my fabric, ribbon & tulle from JoAnn's & Walmart.
This is the stage which is to the left of the food tables & directly across the gym from the backdrop. Lights were wrapped up in the bottom of the green tulle which is resting on the stage.
This is the chocolate candy table as it is being set up, not everything is on it yet.
To the left of the cake, is Kathi Eppich's serpentine table. We don't have everything on it as yet, in this pic., but we served tomato basil, clam chowder, & vegetable beef soups, rolls, a green pistachio salad, a pink strawberry salad, a vege tray with carrots, celery, broccoli, cucumbers, olives, pickled asparagus, etc. Dessert was suicide chocolate, mint choc. chip, & strawberry icecream flavors, assorted chocolates from our Country Mercantile store, & hot chocolate, & lemon water to drink.
The flowers were all made by Annalisa, Shandiin S. made the three layer cake, strawberry with cream cheese filling. The Salt Lake Temple was machine embroidered by Doris S. & I filled in some stitches & gold angel Moroni, by hand. I added the pink & white daisies & the mat & frame.
To make up this garden scene which is to the left of the backdrop below, I brought the white wicker furniture from our gazebo at home. The white fountain & lamp post was rented, & the follage was some from our home, Lana Nielson, & the church. 
Kathi Eppich did a beautiful job of setting up the backdrop curtain & lights, & greenery. We rented the column pieces, & urns form Sun rental in Kennewick. I had the glass vases & purchased the huge light pink gerbera daisies, & the medium-sized white & dark pink ones.
Janica really wanted a false ceiling look & I was really worried as to how we were going to pull it off, but it actually ended up looking pretty good, thanks to lots of people helping out.
Scott & Annalisa are doing some finishing touches with the lanterns, & some of the Empey's who also helped are sitting at a table, with their backs to the camera.
Seth's parent's flew into Spokane on the afternoon of Dec. 26th, so Seth & Janica drove the 2 hrs. to go & pick them up. I went into town to pick up last minute items & food for the reception. Later in the evening Jay & I attended a reception for Severin & Haley Wells Bergeson. On Sat. morning, Dec. 27th, the seven of us (Seth, Janica, Coriann, Scott, Annalisa, Jay & I) packed up stuff to take to the church to decorate. We met several ward members who were ready & willing to help us set up things & decorate. We started around 9 a.m. and the last of us left the church around 3 p.m. It sure was nice to have a lot of helping hands, since we didn't have family there to help us, other than the seven I mentioned. We also were concerned because the weather was horrible with icy, slick roads & there had also been a basketball tournament in Yakima, I believe. This is a picture of the table centerpieces. The bowls had a big pink daisy & 3 smaller white ones, later on a light was put underneath to shine up through the bowl, which was set on some green floral foam, in some live wheat grass, which I grew for about 11-12 days in a green flower pot saucer, which is resting on a 12" square mirror. The round tables were covered with a moss green cloth, a brown runner, which I made, & a wide pink ribbon.
