July 17, 2016
I’m continuing on my thoughts from July 10. So, the biggest tender mercy is that Derek
and Breanna are engaged to be married September 2!
We are blessed that our children are close to us,
emotionally. Derek shared all of their
dating life with us. I had once
mentioned that a hike to the Wind Caves would make a romantic proposal. Heather had also mentioned that the hike to
Packsaddle Lake would be romantic. We
had thought of packing a canoe into Packsaddle and having lights float out on
the water, etc.
In the end, he decided to do the hike to the Wind
Caves. He wanted a book made, with
pictures of their dating life, with a last page that said, “Then Derek got down
on one knee and asked Breanna to marry him!”
I like Shutterfly.
I’ve used it a lot to make digital scrap books. So, I uploaded their dating pictures to
Shutterfly, then Heather and I, mostly Heather were able to work on it or make
it when I went to Cincinnati. That was
special, so Heather could feel part of it.
Breanna’s ring was interesting. Nikole had gotten her graduation opal ring at
Jensen Jeweler in Rexburg. They told us
about a big sale that would be the very next week on loose diamonds. We had found out earlier that all BYU-I
students get 50% off, but this sale would make it even more on sale.
Derek took Breanna to look for rings there. She found a few she liked, but Derek felt
there was one she really liked best. He
went back later to get it, and to buy it on the day of the sale. The ring they had was a size 7, and Breanna
needed a tiny size 4. My finger is a
4.5, and I never heard of anyone with a smaller size. So, Derek
had to order the size 4 to be made from scratch, because you can’t
downsize more than a size or 2, or the ring falls apart. So, he had to get the size 7 on the sale day,
propose to Breanna the very next day with it, she had to wear it with a
“spacer” for about two weeks, until her very own correct size beautiful round
diamond with tiny diamonds all around it arrived. So, it was
a tender mercy to get such a wonderful ring at such a better price than
we would have had.
The proposal itself was supreme. Derek invited her family and ours – which we
had given him the idea, and Brandon had invited us – to hike to the Wind
Caves. Breanna is still suffering from
her illness from her mission, so she has not hiked in years. The Wind Caves hike is fairly challenging, if
you haven’t hiked lately. We became
slightly concerned that she would make it to the top. Her dad said he would carry her, if she
needed him to : ) She did make it though.
We had fun talking with Breanna’s family all the way up and
down. Jordan, her cousin, was hiding up
at the waterfall. We did not even see
him until Derek had Breanna under the lower waterfall, and the rest of us were
back, at the side, watching. We could
suddenly see his camera bag sitting on a big rock, then up popped the Droid –
the camera that flies, and it zoomed up by Derek and Breanna and up the
waterfall and under the waterfall.
Another tender mercy was that the ring box had a video
camera in it, so when Derek bent down, and pulled the ring box out, he pressed
a button and when he opened the box, it recorded Breanna’s reaction and her
expression, etc. – Technology is fun. We
had never heard of anyone doing that.
The whole event was just devine. We felt Heaven near that whole day and
evening, especially on the hike. I felt
my deceased Grandma and Grandpas with us and Breanna’s must have been here,
too. I really believe Heaven cheers
for us when something this special happens.
We have been honored to have Derek and Breanna continue to
court and date. They had most of the wedding plans done when they became
engaged.
They had their announcement pictures taken, they are going
to get their wedding pictures taken on August 17 – they invited us to watch
that “First Look” in Utah at the Ogden Temple.
I have been working with Breanna to arrange a wedding
dinner/lunch at the take center by where she lives, and to arrange the open
house here in Driggs at Grandma Rip’s, outside.
I found several tender mercies along the way.
We’ve got the grooms men’s gray vests, coral ties and a suit
for Derek ordered thourgh Lori Schies’s friend by Layton.
We have leanred that the groom’s family pays as much as the
bride’s. Especially if you put on an
open house or reception in his home town.
So, we had his clothing, his groomsmen, ties for all men in the party,
the honeymoon, the hotel for the night of their sealing, the night after in
Florida, the cruise, the wedding lunch, and the open house. A wedding is fun, and great, but also a lot
of work.
They are sweet and wonderful. Our home and family has enjoyed the Spirit in
great abundance these last many weeks.
Heather went to Nauvoo this week-end, and had her court
trial last Wednesday with the crooked boss from Provo.
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