Memorial Day Weekend

Our weekend started with a wedding on Saturday. This was not just any wedding, this was the wedding of Ray and Laurel! Two dear friends of ours who we are so happy for. Ray is a co-worker of Dons and started asking questions about the Church a year and half ago while they were in training together. It started something like this..."Tell me about those magic underwear." Don took full advantage of that and continued to slowly talk to Ray about the Gospel. Don stays 1 night a week away from home in Winchester, VA which is 1/1/2 hours away from our house, but is where Ray lives. When Don stays in Winchester, he goes to dinner with Ray. One night as they were leaving dinner and heading to their individual cars, Don asked Ray if he had watched the Restoration DVD yet. He said he had not, so Don suggested he come over and watch it. While they were watching the DVD the doorbell rang and you will never guess who it was...the missionaries!! Coincendence, I think not!

Ray was baptized last November and has been the model convert that every Bishop prayers for. Shortly after, I ran into an old friend(Laurel) who has been through alot in the last 3 years. Her husband told her toward the end of her 4th pregnancy that he had never loved her and had reconnected with an old girlfriend through MySpace and was leaving her!! 2 months after she had her baby, he left and divorced her. Jerk! After talking with her, I began to think that I should introduce the two of them. Ray is 40 years old and has never been married and really loves kids and is great with kids. She is 37 and I really felt they would be great for each other. They went on their first date in January to a "Why I Believe Fireside" at the Washington DC Temple. He even stood up and bore his testimony! The rest is history and they were married Saturday on a 200 year old farm in Virginia and the setting was beautiful!

Laurel came down those stairs of the old farm house and her kids met her at the bottom, it was so sweet!

Ray could not stop smiling! And when the Bishop was reciting the vows for Ray to repeat, he just kept nodding his head, like he was soooo ready to say yes! It was just beautiful. They will sealed to one another in November, on his 1 year anniversary of his baptism.

On Sunday we headed to the river lot that Dons family has along the Potomac River near Harpers Ferry, WV. The kids always have alot of fun and we really enjoy hanging out with family and fishing.

Dons mom, Libby

Don's sister, Stephanie

Emma, being her silly self

Don's dad, Donnie holding Chase

Don took all of these pictures and he has become quite the photographer. We stayed the night at the river Sunday and headed home on Monday. We were so exhausted from our weekend that we didn't do anything but hang out at home on Monday. It was nice to have a day to relax before going back to school and work. I hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend too!