Texas - 50th Annivesary

Here is my last update from our Texas trip.

Sunday morning we went to church with the Scholl's. That evening we celebrated mom and dad's 50th Anniversary.

Karen went all out and set a beautiful table complete with pictures of the newlyweds!

Danger - Young girls with fire!!

We had a yummy dinner from a local Italian restaurant.

Here's the kids table - Drew and Rachel had to sit at the kid's table!

After dinner we watched a DVD Rich had put together of pictures of mom and dad growing up and the married years. Cali, Logan and Clark had sent video too as well as lots of nice notes from many of their friends.

Of course there were some photo opps afterwards too!

The kids...

The grandkids.....

Texas - The Wedding

Drew and Rachel's wedding was Saturday morning at the Dallas Temple. We woke up to very cold weather and wind. It was actually snowing in Prosper where Karen lives. I think it was about 40 degrees where we were but the howling wind made it seem colder.

The temple was only about 15 minutes from our hotel so we made it easily. There was a big wreck on the tollway so the bride arrived about 45 minutes late. Poor Drew had been waiting in the lobby for an hour for her. He looked a little nervous!

After the ceremony we all went outside to take a few pictures. It was so cold and windy!!

Here are the happy couple!

And here we are trying to stay warm!

And here is the bride trying to stay warm!!
Here is a picture of the groom's side of the family who were there - Best's and Scholl's. No one was having a good hair day thanks to the wind!

And a couple of cute cousins! I don't think we had seen Lucy since Ashley's wedding - she is almost as tall as Tessa!

Texas - Rehearsal Dinner

Tessa and I arrived in Texas Thursday night.


Friday we did a little shopping and then went to the family/rehearsal dinner Friday night. It was held at a fun Texas BBQ restaurant.


We were able to meet Rachel's side of the family (Drew's new wife) and visit with some of the Scholl relatives.


Here is the cute couple!






And here is the cute "Old" married couple who would be celebrating 5o years of marriage the next day - the same day Drew and Rachel began their married life!
Here is the Best side of the family....Baby Parker (Ashley and Sam's little boy) kept us entertained at the table.We had some good Texas BBQ and yummy Texas sheet cake for dinner!