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Tethering Grace & Togetherness

Hanging up the Bouquet!!!

April 1, 2008 by HappyGoStuckey 9 Comments

I had the privilege of being Matron of Honor in one of my closest and dearest friend’s wedding this past weekend. Lauren Altman (Now Poole!) and I have been close friends since high school and have even known each other since the elementary days! She has always been such a wonderful encouragement and support. She is always someone I can turn to and laugh with; she’s always there for a good chick flick night and she makes a great partner in crime when conquering the sales at the nearest mall or outlet center!! I have many memories of the crazy things we have done together and will always cherish the memory of being a part of her beautiful wedding day!
As this was the 13th wedding in which I have been a bridesmaid, (yes, that’s right– with four brothers and a LOT of single friends, I had become a career bridesmaid!) I have decided to hang up my bouquet and retire as a bridesmaid. And most of my friends are all married off! Hahah! Glad it could end with my sweet friend Lauren!!!!

The Bride and her MOH!

Getting Glammed up!


I was able to spend a few minutes with my dear friend and former college roommate, Viviane. She was also a SEBTS gal and has since moved back to Florida to marry and become a great school teacher! She has recently learned that she will be a mommy later this year! I cannot wait to share in the joy of such a joyous occasion as when my sweet friend becomes a mom!
Love you E!

The reception was brief but I was also able to spend a bit of time with my Heidi!
It was such an unexpected treat to be able to see her for a few minutes at the wedding reception and made me miss her even more! We are meeting for a “girl’s weekend” in a month or so, and I can hardly wait to have her all to myself for three days of sun and fun.. and shopping. 😉


My handsome husband wearing my favorite suit! Isn’t he is so good lookin’? I love being married to him! He makes my life one beautiful memory after another. Even the mundane is meaningful when you are married to your best friend!


A funny shot of the Bride packing for the honeymoon!


The Bride and her MOH had to make a Starbucks run!!!
One Iced Caramel Macchiato and One Iced Skinny Vanilla Latte, please!


MR AND MRS JAMEY POOLE!!!


Did I mention that I love this guy? Did I mention how agreeable he was all weekend and how unselfishly he let me spend almost two days with the Bride to be? What a catch!
My Recent Culinary Adventures…
A weekend with family!!!

Comments

  1. Lindsey says

    April 1, 2008 at 11:40 am

    so glad you had fun and LOVE the picture in front of the chapel.. holy cow that is awesome 🙂

    Reply
  2. Timothy M. & Laurie K. Howard says

    April 3, 2008 at 3:36 am

    Congrats to Lauren!

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  3. Timothy M. & Laurie K. Howard says

    April 3, 2008 at 3:36 am

    Congrats to Lauren!

    Reply
  4. Conner Cutoff says

    April 3, 2008 at 8:34 pm

    major points for Lance!dude- there is reward in heaven.congrats to the couple!

    Reply
  5. Jen&Dave says

    April 3, 2008 at 8:45 pm

    Look how adorable you look as a bridesmaid!?!? Was it weird to be a married bridesmaid? great header on your blog too 🙂

    Reply
  6. Jen&Dave says

    April 3, 2008 at 8:45 pm

    Look how adorable you look as a bridesmaid!?!? Was it weird to be a married bridesmaid? great header on your blog too 🙂

    Reply
  7. Our Great Family says

    April 5, 2008 at 1:26 am

    You guys are so cute!Lance deserves some yummy deserts for being such a good hubby! lol

    Reply
  8. Lauren says

    April 22, 2008 at 1:38 am

    You are the sweetest peach ever! Thanks for being my MOH and for just being a sweet friend! And Lance, thank you so much for sharing your honey with me! I miss you guys!

    Reply
  9. Ashlee Davis says

    May 2, 2008 at 2:51 am

    it was nice seeing you at the wedding and meeting lance! Hope everything is going good.

    Reply

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While we wait, and whatever it is that we wait for— may the space between be made sweeter by the knowledge that we never wait alone.
You can’t tell by their joy, but the day I snapp You can’t tell by their joy, but the day I snapped this photo was somewhat of a regular day.

What looks like a winter beach vacation was actually the tail-end of a masked lunch stop in the middle of a pandemic road trip.

This sparkling moment of sun-splashed fun was sandwiched between brutal conversations about regular life, especially the hard parts.

And this is how it is. 
These bits of life that we never see coming, they are enveloped between all that makes us tired, weary, sighing pilgrims in a world that was never really meant to be hospitable in the first place.

This photo reminds me to look again at our year, our season, our circumstances.

To look a second and third time.
To keep looking as long as it takes to see that the joy of our right now isn’t gone, it just might be hiding in the shadow of all that’s hard.

Brokenness is never vague. And we don’t have to search very long to see it both within ourselves and around us.
Sometimes the weight of that fact is crushing.
And then, sometimes it reminds us even more clearly of the light shining in darkness.

Joy is an act of defiance against despair and I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling rather defiant at the moment.✨✨✨✨

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Endurance can feel like standing still. Especially Endurance can feel like standing still. Especially if what we’re called to be about is the same as yesterday and last month. 
It’s difficult to meet each day with the same fervor and joy for what we are called to do, especially when at present, the progress seems small and immeasurable. 
But even then, perhaps especially so — our faithfulness matters.

When we cannot yet see the other side, the light at the end of this particularly long tunnel, we begin again.

Not because we will always wake with fresh energies and bright, sparkling hope for what comes next, friend. But because the God of Endurance (Romans 15:5) dwells within us.

“It is the grace of endurance granted to you by the God of endurance that provides you with everything you need to continue to be what he calls you to be and do what he calls you to do between this moment and the moment when you cross over to the other side. When difficulty exposes the weakness of your resolve and the limits of your strength, you do not have to panic, because He will endure even in this moments when you don’t feel able to do so yourself.” — Paul David Tripp, New Morning Mercies

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We have learned... The inestimable value of a goo We have learned...

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What our neighborhood streets can offer in the way of an outing—from the colors of spring to the sparkle of Christmas.

To hold plans with the loosest hands possible.

To rejoice in things found. Time. Margin. ...and enough toilet paper to share with a neighbor.

To give grace and accept it for ourselves.

The hilarious joy of a group text complete with “have you seen this meme yet?” 

To pivot. And then pivot again.

To find more joy in candlelight closer to home, instead of the bright lights of traveled cities.

To perfect our pizza dough recipe and truly learn to prefer it over dinner out.

To work with yeast and flour again and again— until the message of waiting for something really good dusted our apron fronts and kitchen floors.

And in our house, we learned how to be unexpectedly unemployed. We learned how to honor that new found space with needed grief and desired hope. How to be grateful for true friends who prayed with us, held questions with us, and hoped with us. We were reminded of our true identity and that it will never rest in a job. 

In a year in which we’ve all lost quite a lot, you and I have been given so much as well. Some of what we’ve lost we have learned to be without. Some, we won’t go looking for again.

In 525,600 minutes and in all the things, found and lost and found again— there is far and away more to be grateful for.

And we choose joy.

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Not rushing too quickly into a new year over here. Not rushing too quickly into a new year over here. Though the one in our rear view window is one we wouldn’t choose to repeat, still it was one full of God’s nearness.

One day I’ll write it all down.
But for now I’ll just say,
we were not alone. 🕯
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