For New Years dinner, I baked a ham and made one of the desserts- a flan.
No sooner was this over than it was time to start wedding preparations for my eldest niece's wedding. For reasons best known to themselves, she and her fiance had decided to get married at a venue in the backwoods of New Brunswick on January 4th. A Thursday. I had been asked to help with set up and to make dessert trays, so this necessitated taking three days off work- fortunately I had some unused vacation days I could carry over- and traveling out of province. We took my sister's van since we were traveling as a group- I and two of my sisters, our parents, and two young nephews. Their parents- another sister and her husband- weren't going to the wedding because her new baby was due on the 5th and she obviously wasn't going to chance getting stuck in NB and going into labour there. But their four boys wanted to attend, so the older two went with some other family members who were traveling up, and the younger two came with us. My sister still hasn't had the baby, but better safe than sorry.
For the dessert trays I made brownies, lemon squares, and shortbread cookies (seen below).
After breakfast the next morning- the boys loved making their own waffles- we made our way out to the venue, which was a refurbished barn about half an hour outside of Moncton. Here we are arriving to help with set up:
My niece:
Then it was time to hit the road; since we were in no great hurry to get back, we stopped to see a few sights: these gigantic nutcrackers which were out in front of a farm had to be about 12 ft tall.
All this is by way of an explanation for why I have been mostly offline for the past two weeks, but I should be able to get back on track now that the wedding is done with and I have a functioning computer.