Well it's about fine time, right? ;) Here we go. Here's most of the amazing food that was brought. On our end, Kassidy made about 12 dozen chocolate chocolate-chip cookies (those cake-mix cookies).
We bought stuff for little deli sandwiches, including making chicken salad--
without grapes (yuck!). I made about 33 (=66) deviled eggs (we can't count the "doesn't want to peel" eggs that we
had to eat while making them). I also made something called Brunch Eggs, where you put bread in the bottom and layer it with whipped up eggs, a sauce, cheese and sausage. Very good! I even used the timer for the first time in my oven! It started cooking with about 30 minutes left before church got out and it was done by the time I got home! YEAH for modern conveniences!
So the line started here in the kitchen and wrapped around to the kitchen table in the back there.
Lots more family. Looks like "the family" beat "the friends" to the line. ;)
Apparently the friends were still visiting. Zach's friends took the upper floor and the family went downstairs. I didn't get all the chairs on the right. Should have grabbed Zach's wide angle lens for all this. ;)
more standing in line
Let's get together and actually get a good picture. The girl on the right is wearing her grandmother's dress from when she was a teenager. How cool is that? And the guy behind her? He's actually standing on the stairs. He's
very tall!
Zach's friend Dustin (the tall one) paying homage to Zach's red vans (sorry, it was a very quick shot and I missed the shoes). Zach did not wear those to church though. He is, however, insisting on taking them with on his mission.
Another group shot. Notice the red vans. I guess it matches his tie? This was maybe half the kids that actually came to eat and just a handful in comparision to the kids that came to church to hear him speak.
They actually had to open up the partition that opens up into the gym to put in a few more rows of chairs during the meeting. Both Zach and the other adult speaker were rather intimidated by that many people being there. This is the first time since we've moved back to that building that they've had to open it up to fit more people than are usually there. And for those of you who aren't LDS and were wondering why I don't have any photos of him speaking, that's just something we don't do...take pictures in Sacrament Meeting. Although, Zach said he wouldn't put it past me to try and sneak one. LOL
I don't think Zach can give two boys a piggy back. ;) And who knows, Dustin is so tall, he may just be standing. LOL (I think he "hopped on" though.)
This is apparently called a "love circle". Can you feel the love?
My nephew, brother-in-law, my aunt (my mom's sister), and my sister. I should have gotten them together and had them smile, but my aunt was in the middle of a story and then I got called away. I spent most of my time on the main floor because I had to make sure the food was rolling. We live in a 4-level split home with a very wide open staircase to this floor, so it's all nice and open. Love that.
And speaking of, this shot is taken from the top of the stairs. That's my brother in the very back (yeah, it's blurry) along with his son, my BIL again, my niece and her daughter and son....and the ugly brown carpet that kind of looks orange. LOL I'm so mad, I didn't think to change my lens to my 24-70L 2.8! I just had on my 28-135 IS, which is a good lens, but the other one would have been so much better for taking pictures indoors. It just didn't even dawn on me, my mind was so...everywhere else.
And here's another shot of my niece, Alisa, and her daughter, Mya, with just a flip of Dylan's curly hair on the left (Mya's brother). He just started to walk into the frame when I snapped the picture.
It was a really great day. Glad to have so many friends and family come support Zach. Glad it was over, but it didn't really end after that. More people came to visit after church as well as more during the afternoon. A very long, but great day.
