Today is my daughter Katie’s birthday.
It’s been a big year in our family! Around a year ago now Katie got engaged, and in February she and David were married. They had a rather quick courtship, because when they started dating, they had already been very good friends for years and knew each other so well.
Katie had been living in Ottawa, but she now lives in a small town about 3 hours north of us where David is stationed (he’s a medic in the military). So they’re a little further away to visit now.
She’s still busy building her YouTube channel and getting adjusted to being a wife. They’ve found a great community church where she’s made lots of friends, and she’s enjoying the young women in the mid-week Bible study she’s joined.
I miss her, but she’s doing great!
And I thought today, for her birthday, I’d just share her wedding video for those who may not have seen it when I shared it on Facebook. (And the first voice you’ll hear as you watch it is my husband Keith’s!). The minister who did the ceremony is a chaplain in the military. He and his wife Tammy did their pre-marital counselling. They’ve also been great friends of ours since 2007, and used to be the kids’ youth leaders. And Tammy now works for me, and answers so many of my emails! Steeve (yes, it has 2 “e’s”) is French Canadian, and I love that little aspect to the wedding, too!
And, of course, the shawl I knit is in the thumbnail. 🙂
Happy birthday, Katie!
Sheila Wray Gregoire has been married for 25 years and happily married for 20! She loves traveling around North America with her hubby in their RV, giving her signature "Girl Talk" about sex and marriage. And she's written 8 books. About sex and marriage. See a theme here? Plus she knits. Even in line at the grocery store.
Happy Birthday Katie! I watched it when Katie posted it to her YouTube channel! LOVED IT!
Sheila, it definitely brought tears to my eyes. It made me think of how I will probably bawl at my sons marriages! What a wonderful day it must have been. Your daughters are beautiful! How proud you must be of them! Enjoy your empty nesting years. I am a tad envious… we have at least four more years to go. In the meantime I am thoroughly enjoying this stage of life. Have a blessed day!
I may have forgotten that I am 39 weeks pregnant with twins before hitting play!
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I’ll try to get through the second half LATERRR…
What a beautiful wedding! Congrats Katie and David!
https://youtu.be/-pVT_mvvZLo
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Too funny! Prayers for you, Sarah, that the next week or so is wonderful!
I was so emotional just sending my daughter off to kindergarten this year. What a relief to hear that I won’t be the only mother crying while watching my daughter’s wedding video. I’m sure the time will fly by and I’ll be there before I know it! How do we keep them little? 😉
Long time reader but first time to comment. I love the wedding video! I feel giddy by just watching it, remembering my own wedding 12 years ago. You can just feel the love in it.
Happy birthday, Katie!
That was gorgeous and truly soul moving. I was really impressed and loved the raw, real LOVE between those two. Congratulations Katie and David, you go together like salt and pepper, and it will be a beautiful marriage. Congrats, Sheila and happy tears!
Ok, I did tear up watching the wedding video. First, I’ve been following your blog for quite a while, and feel like I saw the girls “grow up”. Second, I had just watched the video Katie posted from when she and David got engaged, and then went straight to the wedding video.
And last, it’s bittersweet to see our children grow up and “leave”. I love my 5 grown children, but miss the younger versions of them at the same time.
And my 3 married sons live out of state, so I don’t get to see the grandbabies any where near often enough.
Congratulations, Sheila, I appreciate all you and both the girls do to pour into people’s lives.
Blessings!
Oh, so cool that you’ve been around that long! That video always makes me tear up, too. 🙂
Absolutely beautiful!!!