Oregon Open House for Josh and Kaija

On January 10th we had an 'Open House' for Josh and Kaija. Since Kaija helped in searching and cutting down the Christmas tree, she really wanted the tree to be part of the open house. We all worked hard to keep the tree watered and fed with plant food. On New Years Eve, James cut 1.5 feet off the bottom and we placed it in another trough of water and plant food. It worked! The tree was absolutely stunning! We enjoyed having it up into the middle of January.








































We asked a friend, Joelle to do the flowers and another friend Misha to do the cake. They both did a wonderful job. Joelle did the cake top too. Misha did a chocolate with cream filling for the first and third layer and a white with raspberry filling for the 2nd layer. We also had cheesecake with strawberry and blackberry filling and cream puffs. Along with that we served orange chicken with cheese and crackers. Of course no party is a party without the keg of Root Beer (over 200 pounds!) that Aaron and Lauren drove to Mt. Angel to get.















We had a lot of food left over and the next night-Sunday-was the youth fireside which was on Celestial Marriage. We were very happy to have 30 youth and leaders over to help us eat more of the cake, nuts, mints, and M&M's (We had ordered these purple and silver M&M's especially for the open house with Josh and Kaija's name and wedding date imprinted on them.