Wedding Bells

That is right my little brother is MARRIED.
Daniel Martin has a MRS!
It is still too hard to believe.
I can remember when I was had just gotten engaged and was home for the rest of the summer and I was chillin in Daniel's room and he was playing a game or writing a story and he just turned and looked at me and was like "It is so weird. You are going to be married..."
And let me tell you Daniel it feels EXACTLY THE SAME WAY!
It is weird.
This sibling of mine that I have none literally FOREVER!
Is going to be a married man... I mean WHAT?!?!
And now it has happened and honestly it still doesn't feel real.
But I guess seeing you actually married will change it all and soon time will take force and I you will be a whole new married man.
Good luck, Nicole.
He is handsome and kind and creative and smart and quite the little fiery annoying little brother.
I know he loves you and I know he is going to make a great husband and father some day.
It is amazing the change that happens and the love that deepens as the years pass through marriage.
I know their will be ups and downs like any true path there will be stumbles but as long as you both are fiercely loyal and honest and stay close to the Lord always, nothing can stand in your way.
I wish them the happiest life can bring them!

And watching them start perfectly was a great and honored blessing I am so grateful for.

MR AND MRS MARTIN
AUGUST 4, 2017
IDAHO FALLS TEMPLE 

While Nicole's family prepped the reception we prepped their apartment at Daniel's request. 

Which Daniel had just barely gotten keys for and which to everyone's dismay had evidence of a chicken living in it. 

So with a lot of cleaning and buying (kudos to Mom and Dad for the time and energy and worry and money they put into it), we tried to turn it into a home with a few little things on the walls and a few things arranged so that they could have a beautiful home to welcome them that night. 

Everything was beautiful that night at the reception and we wish we could have been closer to help more. But time and location obviously wouldn't allow that, which I, having married in Rexburg myself know all too well. 

"Men may write love songs and sing them. They may yearn and hope and dream. But all of this will be only a romantic longing unless there is an exercise of authority that transcends the powers of time and death."

~

Gordon B. Hinckley