We invited alot of people who we had felt attached to or they were people who we wanted them  to share our happiest moments in our lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    and some of our closest friends, people who had meant something to us in our past. I am sending this to the people who REALLY said THAT THEY WANTED TO KNOW WHEN our wedding was going to be.  And a couple people did decide they wanted to spend more time in the Temple because they came to watch us getting married.  

I haven't been in the Temple for about 4 years.  A friend I haven't seen except once or twice a year, enjoyed having us around and wanted our address.  So we are going to stay in touch.  Alot more!!  
After the ceremony was over we went out to eat with our chaperones.  I was good on my diet as far as carbs go.  I saw a different side of one of our friends.  He likes to tease his wife.  I had never spent that much time with them before.  The wife was allergic to cats and where we had lived in the trailer, the past owner had left a cat.  And our friend did not dare to come over because of that. 
But she really has been good to me.  She and her husband went out of their way miles and miles to bring us food.    I had 3 people help me when I made a skirt and basically they made the skirt.  I tried, but the matterial had to be cut again bcause I don't know how to cut a straight line.  Not unless I have a ruler or a straight line to follow.  The skirt we made by hand except what little we could do with a sewing machine.   So for me it is a skirt that was made with love.  It was made by using a sheet.  And followed directions as  we were told to do. 
I felt bad because when I was younger I made some of my clothes.  The ones that were bright and unusual.  I made a pair of pajamas that were so fancy that when I was in the hospital the nurse came into the room when I was visiting one of the other patients. She told me visiting hours were over. 

     Also at the temple I felt awkward again because I needed so much help.  I felt like a baby.  Having to wait and get help getting dressed.  I always like to do things on my own as much as is possible.  I like to make decisions for myself.  I guess you would say I like being independent as much as possible.  I may be slow, but I do like to feel I can and do things for myself. 

 Our escourts were really good to me that night.  She gave me one of her dresses that she had bought for herself and gave me a veil.  I looked great!  It looked like the dress was made for me.  It is beautiful!!!!  There was alot of love in that room as Walter and I knelt at the altar. After we were married  our friend who married us took us back to the room we were married in and had us look in the mirrow to our left.  He said that as we could look in that mirror and see ourselves pictured over and over.  He said that was our past.  Then he had us turn and look at the mirror on our right.  We saw ourselves over and over again.  He said this is our future that it goes on and on throughout eternity.

As many of you know I used to not be able to turn my head to the right or left because it hurt so much that I screamed.  And the Doctors did not dare tell me to force my head to turn.  BUT the physical therapist did.  He had me force my head from side to side.  So now I can turn my head from side to side and see partway in back of me.   

 I learned to walk more confidently.  And with a greater amount of speed.  Yes if I am in familiar ground I can race along with my stick or with a grocery cart.  Now I am trying to learn to walk up and down stairs.  My last therapist had me walk up and down a flight of steps without holding on but with a railing on the side.  I do not have that amount of confidence anymore.  I have tried to walk up or down a few steps, but I am scared and when the ground is uneven I fell down and landed on my face.  Lucky for me it took quite a few weeks for us to get married.  It made it so I could kneel down at the altar when Walter and I were married.

We had moved to a house in Atlanta where Walter and I had to hold on to the wall to get up the steps.  And at that same place we needed to get something so we could finish packing and move to a better location.  Did I send someone to help me get it.  No, I decided I would get up the steps of a grocery store that did not have a wall or a railing.  I started walking up the stairs with my stick.  Only problem was the steps were cement and each step was very high.  Well I ended up crawling up the steps and when I got to the top I had a problem there was no way for me to stand up.  There was still nothing to grab hold on to. As luck would have it, or as God let it be a man came out of the store right when I got to the top and he helped me to stand up.  When I left that store I asked for help.  I still do not think I could walk up those steps even now. 

(As some of you know I crawled from our air mattress to the bathroom to get up out of bed and to stand up when Walter and I  were first married. { I used to fall so much that I had a physical therapist and an occupational therapist teaching me how to walk up steps and crawl and climb back up at the side of the bed while I was staying in the hospital.}]  So as you can see my journey to the temple and to get married to Walter took alot of training by others long before Walter and I were married. I know that some of you are thinking this is too long of a story, but I needed to share these thoughts with some of you who did not make it to our wedding.  Whatever your reason why you did not come to our wedding or our reception, I know the reception was a VERY last minute affair. 

PLEASE send us a card so that Walter and I will know YOU are happy for us too.  If you need our address, contact Brother Ussery, or Larry Baker or e-mail e-mail us or get in touch with Aunt Mildred's daughter, Linda.  And for those who did show up, thanks for showing up at our magnificent wedding or for the reception afterwardds.  For many of you the invitation to the reception came too late or maybe the day we were married was a conflict.  PLEASE send us a card.  BUNCHES of LOVE to all.  Walter and I are VERY, HAPPILY married for time and for all eternity.  This wedding has changed our lives and THANK YOU  to our friends who did show up!!!!!!!!!!  IF you want pictures of the wedding we do not have any, BUT we do have a couple pictures of the temple on the outside and some pictures of the room we were married in. And we are planning on getting some pictures of us with me in my wedding dress.              &nb sp; .      .