Eichers celebrate anniversary

My son, Benjamin’s, 16th birthday is today. We want to bake him a cake, but I forgot to ask him what kind he wants before he left for work at 5:30 a.m. It’s hard to remember each of eight children's favorite.
My husband Joe and I will have our 22nd wedding anniversary on July 15. Where have all the years gone? It hardly seems possible that it has been that many years. We have so many blessings to thank our Heavenly Father for.
I remember on the morning of our wedding when my mother, some of my sisters and I got all the chicken in skillets on the kerosene stoves to fry. Mom, sister Liz, and her husband Levi took care of the chicken until the cooks came to take over. Eighteen skillets were used to fry 300 pounds of chicken. We started frying chicken at 4:15 a.m. I helped until it was time to get ready before the guests started arriving between 6:30 and 7:00 a.m.
Daughter Elizabeth is back to work at the RV factory after two weeks of vacation. I think she is probably having more of a vacation back at work. She put in some long days helping clean and sew here at home. It’s hard to get her to take it easy, but I told her she has to be careful with having had double pneumonia. She still feels weak from it.
Timothy and Elizabeth’s wedding is now a month away. Elizabeth sewed everyone clothes for the wedding except she still needs to sew herself and Susan white capes and aprons they will wear at the wedding. Mose and Susan will be their witnesses. The bride and groom both choose witnesses so Timothy will choose some from his family.
I still need to cut out and sew my dress for the wedding.
We have three bedrooms cleaned upstairs and still need to clean the boys' bedroom. We also are cleaning the canning room. So, lots of jars to clean and put back on the shelf. Joe has been working evenings on making a bigger closet in our bedroom. That will need to be painted when he is finished with mudding the drywall. He installed a new shower in the bathroom, so the bathroom needs to be repainted too yet before the wedding.
Daughter Susan had a nice vacation. We are glad to have her home again. They could feed the deer from their hand in the cabin where they stayed and also saw black bears. They had a nice fishing trip.

We were surprised Thursday with a visit from Uncle Joe and Betty from Geneva, Indiana and Uncle Menno and Martha from Phoenix, Arizona. Menno and Martha were out in the Berne, Indiana area to attend the annual Coblentz reunion. We were unable to attend but sounds like the Coblentzs had a lot of fun — like usual. Menno and Joe are my Dad’s brothers.