2003
and 2001 birthday and 2001 party
and 2000 with the sad observation that in 2002 my camera was broken and there was a shortage of new digital cameras.

But, it was clearly time for a celebration or 2, so we got ready to roll. So we packed the trunk ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0001 Suzanne and Sarah did their ritual handshake ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0002 and after Suzanne ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0003 got in the car, it was wheels up ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0004 only 54 minutes late. We hit traffic and so decided to take a short cut through Haddonfield where this person on the street ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0005 was celebrating Jane's history teacher ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0006 as we followed the traffic ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0007 past the gas station ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0008 and back onto the highway. When we approached the Delaware Memorial Bridge ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0009 I ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0010 was unhappy as was Suzanne ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0011 because the line ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0012 was long and we had forgotten our new E-Z Pass ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0013 so we didn't feel a little better ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0014 as the toll taker ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0015 went incognito. We drove on until a pit stop at which we left Sarah in the car to prevent theft ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0016 as Jane acknowledged the culinary choices ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0017 and the dress code ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0018 before we paid homage ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0019 to Maryland's finest. Once inside, Jane ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0020 picked the food ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0021 and we paid ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0022 so that Ben ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0023 would feel nourished as we drove on ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0024 to the line ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0025 at the next toll booth and finally got Baltimore ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0026 and the hotel in our sites ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0027 where this fine man (grandson of P"53) ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0028 gave us one of our rooms with a less than ideal view ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0029 of the parking lot. As the girls ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0030 got ready to go upstairs, Suzanne called ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0031 to see if our other room would ever be ready. The views from Dansyl's room of the harbor ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0032 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0033 and the tall ship ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0034 were excellent even as Benjamin got his monopoly game ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0035 and assembled it ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0036 as a way to fight boredom.

Next it was time to get dressed. I failed not once ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0037 but twice ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0038 to capture myself, so I tried the mirror trick ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0039 before deciding that Benjamin could take a better picture of me ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0040 before turning to his toes ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0041 over which he was watching Georgia Tech take an early lead over OKState ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0042 in the game that mattered. Jane appeared and posed with Ben ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0043 and then with Suzanne ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0044 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0045 before Ben ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0046 ducked out of the picture and headed for the window ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0047 where he posed ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0048 and then went further ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0049 and further ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0050 into the curtains until he was totally obscured ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0051 though he did emerge ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0052 and use his game ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0053 as a decoy as Sarah appeared ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0054 and showed her hair ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0055 before posing with Suzanne ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0056 and taking my picture ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0057 as we gathered ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0058 for an almost whole family portrait ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0059 and then a few of the children with Ben looking bored ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0060 then dorky ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0061 then sleepy ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0062 then bashful ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0063 which made us wish that we could remember all seven of the dwarfs.

Downstairs, we ran into Larry ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0064 and a reluctant Janet ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0065 who eventually got with the plan ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0066 as Suzanne, Jane and Ben ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0067 sat as DanSyl ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0068 and Fran ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0069 arrived. Sylvia ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0070 had one group ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0071 then a larger group ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0072 then an even larger group ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0073 and then a substitution ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0074 gather for photos as Isabel and Peter ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0075 joined Larry and Penny ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0076 joined Fran. Meanwhile, Sarah and Janet ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0077 and Jane and Suzanne ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0078 were watching the conversation ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0079 before we went into the ceremony and saw Michelle and Jason ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0080 and got their attention ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0081 before the ceremony began.

After the ceremony, Jane, Fran and Michelle ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0082 did the sister thing while Ben ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0083 watched until Suzanne joined ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0084 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0085 for a pair of pictures as I went off to meet Lynn ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0086 and Yitz ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0087 and chat with Bob ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0088 while trying to get the perfect picture ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0089 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0090 of the most interesting guest, but more on that later.

It was family time with Betsy and Matt ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0091 DanSyl ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0092 and Dick and Larry posing ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0093 before we grew the nuclear family, one ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0094 by one ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0095 as Jane and Eric ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0096 and then Barbara too ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0097 watched as Ben and Sarah ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0098 led us past Andy, our host, ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0099 to our table where the other brothers and wives ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0100 were waiting to see if we would join them for the perfect picture ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0101 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0102 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0103 for which, you gentle viewer, can be the judge. Adam and Bonnie ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0104 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0105 appeared and DanSyl ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0106 made Fran and Dick ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0107 stir as Rachel and Suzanne posed ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0108 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0109 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0110 for their collection of pictures to the amusement of Janet and Larry ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0111 and Dick and Fran ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0112 as I showed that my skill at self portraits ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0113 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0114 had slipped away so that Jane had to join me ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0115 and then pose alone ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0116 so that Fran ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0117 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0118 would do the same even as the rest of the table ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0119 conversed and Rachel explained something ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0120 to Suzanne. It was time for more pictures at our table with Fran and Dick ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0121 and a few tries ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0122 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0123 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0124 to get Larry's expression right and then Penny ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0125 and Peter ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0126 as Sarah and Ben ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0127 saw if the three children ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0128 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0129 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0130 could produce a good group picture. At this point, DanSyl ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0131 happened by and chatted with Fran ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0132 before posing for pictures with Fran and Dick ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0133 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0134 then Janet and Larry ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0135 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0136 and finally Larry and Suzanne ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0137 into which PhotoShop may be able to paint this finer face ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0138 with more hair. A dark salad ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0139 was served as the table engaged in conversation ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0140 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0141 and Ben decided to see if Larry could amuse him ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0142 before the sorbet came ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0143 and Ben did variations on his sleeping on the table ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0144 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0145 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0146 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0147 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0148 which brought Barbara over ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0149 to try and massage his back ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0150 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0151 to energize him or at least Larry and Penny ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0152 who led to the dance floor. Bob and Isabel ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0153 dined as Bonnie and Rachel ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0154 posed as did Ben, Suzanne and Jane ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0155 and Fran, Dick and Janet ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0156 while Dick brought Eric to the table of the next generation ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0157 so that they could talk man talk with Matt ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0158 while I went back to my delicious vegetarian dinner ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0159 and walked to the wedding cake ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0160 with Sarah who seems to need to show me her body parts feet ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0161 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0162 then hands ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0163 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0164 as we gathered her and Ellen together ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0165 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0166 to see if they were twins when their glasses were off. Ellen and Brian ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0167 posed and then we went outside where I captured the others ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0168 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0169 but missed severely on an attempted profile shot ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0170 before getting closer ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0171 so that I felt comfortable about having these groups photos ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0172 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0173 which Eric ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0174 took before he took the pictures of my next generation ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0175 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0176 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0177 and I got Dick's family assembled ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0178 for a collection of group photos ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0179 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0180 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0181 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0182 ../../../Sabbat/2004/04.03-04.04EmilyWeddingBenBirthday//IMG_0183 which made me feel like the day was done.