Video Of Luke and Emily's Wedding

I handed the family snap and shoot digital camera to the one and only Peter Snider the morning of Luke and Emily's wedding. He was given the job of taking candid photographs during the ceremony.  So what does Peter do - he surpasses expectations and films a video.

This is certainly not the best angle but it may be the only video of the ceremony.

Wedding Photo - Luke and Emily

Luke and Emily are married. The ceremony and reception were perfect, the bride beautiful, the groom joyful and all is right with the world.

As you might guess, we are recovering from the events and so the blog updates are few and far between.

I did take a couple seconds to upload two photographs.

Enjoy!

The Very Happy Couple

Friends and Sisters

Wedding Week - Luke

The Groom - Doesn't Luke look excited about the wedding!

He Looks Ready to Get Married

Wedding Week is here.  Over the past month we have talked wedding plans at dinner every night. The talk is of fun, excitement, anticipation and joy.  We are looking forward big time to this wedding.

Emily and Luke are perfect for each other.  More pictures to follow.

Luke and Emily - Engaged!

Gina and I are super excited that Luke is engaged.  Last week Luke asked and Emily Haxby agreed to marry him. Everyone in the family is jumping up and down with anticipation.

Here is a picture of the happy engaged couple - Luke and Emily are all dressed up to go to Luke's work party at the Downtown Athletic Club.

I think they look fantastic.  Also very impressed Emily could convince Luke to wear a red shirt.

They sure look happy!

I suggested that since almost the entire family will be in Eugene for Christmas they should get married next week.  Emily didn't think that was such a good idea. 

Pictures 1985 to 1995ish

I'm trying to be disciplined about going through some of our old pictures. We have a large box filled with photos from the pre-digital age.  My hope is to scan the good ones and even post a few.

First some pictures of Autumn and Ellie. 

Grandma holding Autumn and Scott holding Ellie

Autumn just hours after being born. 

Autumn being cute in Dad's lap

This picture has something you never see - Paul wearing shorts!  I love Nathan in the shades.  Taken at Luke's fourth birday.

The Five oldest at Luke's Fourth Birthday

First known picture of the special birthday chocolate pound cake.

Luke's Cake

Paul with a mullet. 

Who is peaking out from behind the door.  This was taken in Phoenix in 1990.  I can tell because Nathan is in the picture and we don't have a yard yet.

Silas and Nathan

At the Hotel Pool with Granpa

Perhaps the rarest person in our photos - Aunt Suzy. 

Aunt Suzy and Silas in Ridgecrest, CA

Silas and Paul Painting in Phoenix

On the train in Scottsdale, Arizona

Silas and Paul - Scottsdale, Arizona

A picture with what Gina calls the ugliest couch in the world. We were thankful for it but didn't shed a tear when it was taken to the dump.

Gina, Silas and Paul

Paul - why doesn't he want the cheesecake?

A real early photo. Taken in 1986 - Novato, California.  The grandparents home.  We had just graduated from Cal Poly.

Gina and Silas - Novato, California 1986

Grandpa and Silas -Novato, CA 1986

Grandma and Silas - Novato, CA 1986

Picture of the Day - Brothers - Tuesday 12/11/12

Nathan and Luke were born less than 18 months apart. They played together and they played until they were exhausted.  Gina took more than a few pictures of those two falling asleep in funny positions.

We love this picture of Nathan using Luke for a  pillow.  They are both fast asleep on the couch. Still not sure how Luke ended up in that particular position.

Not really sure what house this picture was taken.  Gina will know, she always knows that kind of stuff.

This picture is typical of the afternoon nap routine.  Gina would put them on our mattress and they would be asleep in a few minutes.  

You may notice the mattress is on the ground.  We slept for years with the mattress this way because we always had at least one toddler in the house.  The little guy/girl could easily climb into or out of bed without fear of falling on the ground and hurting themselves. I think we were married 16+ years before we had a bed frame.