Jinhee and Dennis's wedding

Last weekend we traveled up to the Berkshires for the wedding of two friends from Princeton, Dennis and Jinhee.  It was wonderful to see all sorts of Manna friends, and it was Samantha's first time at a wedding!

Andrew Matthews took the train out from NYC to drive up with us to the Berkshires.  Here's Samantha with her birthday twin before we started our drive.  Matthews is becoming a natural with babies!

We were a little worried about a four hour car trip with Samantha, but she did great.   Mostly this was what I saw from the back seat the whole time (thank goodness the place she likes napping the most is her car seat!)

And when she wasn't sleeping, Freddie the Firefly kept her super occupied.  She has started grabbing everything in the last two weeks so crinkling and putting Freddie in her mouth kept her quite busy.

Once we got to the hotel it was time to get Samantha ready for the wedding.  Such a fancy little girl! (Thanks Auntie Nancy, Uncle Larry, Ashlee and Emilee!)

 The wedding took place at Edith Wharton's estate, the Mount, in Lennox, MA. Since it was raining when the wedding started the ceremony was in a barn instead of outside.  It turned out to be such a fun and unique venue!  And I loved how the bridesmaids had all different but somehow still coordinating peach dresses that reflected each of their unique styles.  So bright and happy!  I was a little worried about Samantha being in this small space the whole time with no where to really escape to except for the rainy outside, but she somehow slept the whole time- thanks goodness!

 David Kim, our pastor from our college fellowship days, performed the ceremony.  He had performed our ceremony (almost five years ago now!) so there were a lot of great flashbacks.  And of course a picture of the beautiful bride and groom!

The weather cleared up enough to have some of the cocktail hour outside.  The bride and groom switched to traditional Korean attire and the toasts began.

 The Mount!  Because it was Edith Wharton's home, Jinhee and Dennis had lots of little touches having to do with reading and writing.  Because we were occupied with Samantha we failed to take pictures of the little details, but I loved the table assignments being written on library cards and the centerpiece flowers made of book pages.

Daddy and his girl!

Cocktail our in the moby with mommy.  Samantha is currently putting everything her mouth- even the moby wrap.

Our family of three!

 And prepare yourself for more cuteness than you thought possible...Samantha met a new friend at the wedding, Caleb Kim.  Caleb is the son of two of our friends from Manna, David and Jane, and was born just three weeks after Samantha.

And what you don't see in this first photo is what actually happened for most of our little baby photo shoot- Samantha kicking and flailing like always- and Caleb trying to figure out who she was and why she was moving so much!

And on Sunday about an hour into our trip back home, we stopped outside of Albany to have a quick lunch with Justin.  Glad he got to meet Samantha, and we got to catch up with him a little.  We somehow failed to take a picture of me with Samantha on my first Mother's Day, but I was feeling very blessed all weekend long to get to be this little girl's mother.

Congrats Jinhee and Dennis! We're so glad we got to be there to celebrate with you and glad we got a chance to catch up with old friends!