Saturday, October 5, 2019 Sara and Katie's wedding

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Last weekend we made a flying trip to Michigan for our daughter Sara's wedding. (That's Sara on the right with her bride Katie.}

It was everything a wedding should be: fun, joyous, people coming together, full of laughter and love!

Aside from the beautiful wedding, the best thing for me was having all our kids together in one place  for the first time since our oldest, John David, graduated from high school. (he turned 40 earlier this week so you can do the math.)

 (Three important people are missing from this photo: the other bride, who was off doing something important, and William and Kai who were off playing and couldn't be bothered.)

Siblings were together for the first time in years.

Cousins met cousins they didn't know they had.

Kids (Kai and Kennedy) met uncles (Jason) and aunts (Hannah) they've never seen. And, we finally got to meet Hannah, our other soon-to-be daughter-in-law and soon-to-be mother of our newest grandchild.

Between travel, rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, the wedding, reception, and more travel, we manage short visits with our good friends Nancy and Gwen

and our "adopted" daughter Katie, her wife Elizabeth, and out "grandaughter" Emmory.

We missed so many people we'd hoped to see. Our original plan was to go to Cincinnati for my 50th high school reunion then on to Cleveland for a visit with Amy and the grands, then a leisurely tip to Michigan with lots of time for visits and finally a relaxed weekend at the wedding. That whole plan fell apart and turned into a flying five-day trip, with two of those being travel days. To all those we messed, we are so sorry. We'll try again next time.

All in all it was an amazing wonderful love-filled weekend. We are so grateful.

Congratulations Sara and Katie!