My Sister Mel has been dating Clayton for a few months and he is in the Idaho National
Guard and his Unit has been called to Iraq. They were in an
unfortunate time crunch in progressing their relationship. Basically, without getting into too much
unnecessary detail, she recently got divorced and was still sealed to her ex-husband. They (the Bishop and Stake President) expedited the sealing
cancellation as much as that can happen as most of it is out of their control. We have all been playing the waiting game to see if the
cancellation would come so they could get married in the temple before Clayton left. So Wednesday evening i get a call from Mel saying that they might get married civilly if the
cancellation didn't come by, i don't know, Friday or Saturday. She said she would let me know. Well i didn't hear back Wednesday so Thursday i tracked Mel down and she said that they were probably going to get married Saturday. I purchased an airline ticket to leave the next day. So with not much notice and to
every one's surprise, (Ryan didn't know until 2 hours before the event was to occur) they got married. It was a happy occasion and I like Clayton. He will be good for Mel and her children but it was a bittersweet occasion because i couldn't help wishing that we had more notice because CW could have come with me. To both
CW's and my regret, a 2 day notice is not very
convenient for
CW's busy work schedule and cost prohibitive to fly 2 people at such last notice. Oh well what's done is done.

I was the
unofficial photographer so the pictures didn't turn out so well. But Clayton looks sharp in his military duds and Mel is cute too.

Mom and Dad worked hard to make this weekend a success!

The happy couple.

Cute Elise.

Nate and Michelle

The happy family.

And would a blog posting by me be complete without a shot of
Jonathan?
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