Monday, December 31, 2007

My Daughter Devery's Wedding

My daughter Devery was married to Easton H_____ of Tucson, Arizona, in late December in the Albuquerque LDS Temple. (This photo was taken outside the temple shortly after the wedding ceremony.) Devery and Easton are a great (and nice-looking) couple, and I'm sure they'll do well together. They met, as hundreds of LDS couples do every year, at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah (a/k/a Temple Tech), and now they face the difficult task of moving into a new apartment, starting a new semester of school, and getting used to being married all at one time. Devery is majoring in Information Systems (ISYS) in the BYU business school, and Easton will get his degree in Construction Management. Devery is our third daughter to be married.

At the wedding luncheon, Easton's father Steve H_____ called on those in attendance to come up with anecdotes or funny stories about the newlyweds. I honestly couldn't think of any about Devery, outside of the numerous times she wandered off as a little girl, but I did recall how she, as a baby, used to light up whenever I came home from school and walked in the door; it was always a highlight of my day. (My wife and I later remembered Devery's first experience behind the wheel of a car. She was about six years old, and we were getting our old Ford minivan ready for a trip; I stupidly left the car running and momentarily went in the house. Devery got in the driver's seat, somehow shifted into reverse or neutral, and rolled the car backwards into the neighbor opposite's bushes, knocking over his mailbox. She's become a much-better driver since then!)