Wonderful Wedding

Dec. 29th Jennifer married Marvin Pearce in the Mesa Arizona Temple.

It was a wonderful time for our family and things went well. The family pulled together in our absence and now we know just how much we're needed! NOT!

Actually, it was a great blessing to see what competent, caring, incredible children we have. We could not be happier or prouder of how they took care of everything.

They were all there pulling together to help make Jen's plan for a perfect wedding come true. Well, every wedding does need a little craziness to remember, doesn't it? -no recommend and no rings, but it was pretty close to perfect.

We are so happy for the Pearce/Tassainer family and to have them all in our family.

This cute family's configuration is exactly like our family's. They have- girl, boy, three girls, and a boy and they're spaced out just about the same number of years. It's just right!!!

It was very hard to miss out on the great blessing of being in the temple together for this grand occasion, but we were thrilled that all our children and their spouses were there.

We talked to Jennifer and Marvin the morning of the wedding.

Then, we had a great surprise when we got to talk to Jen on Linsey's cell phone minutes after the wedding as she came out of the temple. Aren't Linsey and technology wonderful to make that happen! We had hoped to talk again at the reception, but our power went out for six hours. So, we could only imagine how much fun it was. What can you say. We're still in Africa.

Gotta love these boys. The little one and the big ones too.

We heard that it was wonderful and again our children did a great job. We are very proud of them.

What a beautiful, happy couple.

Everybody danced, partied and had fun, which is just what Jen and Marvin wanted for their celebration.

We have to admit that we missed being there. But, it was a wonderful day for our family, a day that we had prayed would come. We are so grateful! Somewhat surprisingly, we felt a great deal of comfort and were happy on this special day, despite being half way around the world.