Wedding Bells

For those of you who did not know, we have had a young man living with my family for a good number of years now. He's actually about the 6th "boarder" to live with my family across the years. He's become a surrogate brother to all of us younger girls, and a part of the family. He's moving out this August to move to Illinois to attend law school, but only after he gets married to Carli Tanner. We've known the Tanners for a long time and everyone's excited for it.

Tonight we stuffed envelopes with the wedding announcement while watching Father of the Bride. About part way through Aimee, who is almost 11, commented that "getting married is the worst part of life." Later after the movie was done and as we were gathering together for family prayers, laughing about the movie, Aimee said, "Mia's never gonna get married"... (I'm Mia, in case you didn't know).

Out of context, it's quite depressing, but she meant that with all the stress that parents have to go through, she believed that my dad didn't want me getting married any time soon - which is slightly true (although I think we're both in that ballpark).

However, the laughs over my singleness didn't end there. Right before Hannah began to give the family prayer, my dad turned to her and said, "Pray that Amelia will get married some time." Apparently me being married is a joke in the family.