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The Wedding!

Getting slicked!

Elisha sang a solo of "How deep the Father's love for us" which I ended up accompanying at the "last minute"!

Looking for the bride's coming

Trey looking somewhere else!

Andrew's view of the wedding--he manned the live stream--which would have failed completely if he had'nt been there to set it again each time it stopped!

Soon before Allie was taken off by her mother

The Vows

Trey's pose here is adorable!

The rings

I now present to you Mr. and Mrs. Steven Corbett Jr.

The Cake

The recieving line may be an old fashioned thing yet it is very nice!

Sweet

And now the photos!

Anna's Family

Brothers of the bride

Some of Steven's family

Decorating the car!

Here they are!

Hugs!

And now clean-up!

Many hands make light work!

And setting up for the "out-of-towners" party at the Smiths home! It was a wonderful time!

We had a lovely visit at the Smith's church!

Amanda, Elisha and Sarah

Deborah and I!

We drove after church to Memphis to visit Dad's step-relatives! They served us a tasty meal---alfresco.

Mrs. Williams

Andrew!

We had a very happy visit with Barbara and Mrs. Williams, with the additional blessing that Dad's step-sisters dropped by!

The next morning

Our two cutest and smallest!

Funny face!

And we arrived home to find that there is a lot more fall color than there was when we left!

Here begins the tale of our trip...

"Cock-a-doodle-doo,

My dame has lost her shoe..."

--Nursery rhyme

Deborah loses her shoe in this picture at one of the first rest stops we stopped at.

This gas station had vintage gas pumps!

Waiting for the others...

Holbrook, Arizona--where we stopped the first night. These quaint lamposts charmed us!

The Mojave has its loveliness!

Re-packing

At this motel we met a large group of Norwegians who were traveling the whole of Route 66 on motorcycle!

Pretty but poisonous

(Oleander)

What exactly are Joshua trees made of?

This is "The Infamous Family Portrait". A Lady came up to Elisha while we were looking at the Joshua Tree, and wanted to take a family picture for us--Elisha did tell her that we weren't all here but she took it anyway! The lady didn't want a picture of us, she wanted us to have a picture of ourselves--which Mom or Nathaniel could have taken, because they weren't in the picture!

When we saw this we wondered for a few moments but then remembered---when we lived in So-Cal I remember seeing empty shopping carts occasionally in ditches etc. and Mom telling us that those were carts people had taken home with them. Well, this guy in the above truck thought entreprenurially and made a business out of the problem of the stolen shopping carts! We assume he goes around collecting carts, and as we saw him, returning them to their stores for a fee!