Truly Legen...wait for it...DARY!!!

            Words like epic and legendary are grossly overused in today's society and so I try as much as

possible NOT to use them when talking about the things I do. (even if the afore mentioned things turn out to be epic or legendary.  One never knows.)  In this case however I am going to make an exception.

 Last week (5 October) saw the end of one legacy but the beginning of another. I say one legacy because I only really know one side of the story.  In actuality it was the end of two legacies and the beginning of one entirely new one.  One created fully in the image of God.  Brad Bird (one of Joel's groomsmen) said it best.  (Brad, I can't remember it verbatim but I think (or at least hope) I got the gist of it.)  He said that because God created woman from man, when a man and woman get married they become whole and that's really what God intended in the first place.  

 I've been thinking a lot about the wedding...even before the wedding.  It was rough for me.  Rough because Joel had (and for the record still is) become a good friend.  Not that he wasn't a good friend before but for years he was just my brother who was also a friend.  He is now my friend who just happen to be my brother.  Living together for three years does that to you.  I'm just happy he still asked me to 

stand with him.  :-)  Joel/Amber, that's what I wanted to say Friday night!  It just took me another week to think of it.  Oh well.  Better late than never.  

Now maybe it's pushing it saying that this wedding was both epic AND legendary.  I got nine days off, saw some epic views, an amazing wedding, climbed up the side of a mountain,  went to a great church Sunday, and got stuck on a layover at O'hare for 9 hours.  Not only that, but I found out that there are some pretty cool people living in Missouri.  I didn't know people lived in Missouri.  I thought it was just one of those states you drove through.  Isn't that the one where you can go 75mph and can count all the traffic lights on one hand? :-)  It's like there's this family out there that's been just waiting for us to call and tell them Mom's chocolate chip cookies are out of the oven. 

Finally, the two people that everyone gathered to see shared the story of their day.  A lot of people have already seen it but I'm putting it out in the blogosphere for all to enjoy!

Joel & Amber's Wedding Highlights

Thank you Joel and Amber for a truly epic week I will not soon forget.

The wedding itself was wonderfully done and it was cool how God was interwoven throughout the ceremony was really awesome.  Of course when you have The Garden of the Gods as a backdrop it certainly doesn't hurt.