Last weekend we traveled to St. Louis to have Deven sealed to us. For those of you who are not LDS, I'll give a short explanation and some links, if you have more questions just e-mail me! Ben and I were married in the St. Louis Temple. We choose to be married there because we knew that we would be able to make promises to each other and to the Lord that would last, not only for all of our lives, but after death also. Any child that is born to us is born in the promises and will be with us after death also. Those promises "seal" us together. That is why we call it a sealing. (When I was a kid I thought it was "ceiling" and I was so confused :) Deven, being adopted, needed to be adopted into those promises. We had the most wonderful experience, my little boy is mine forever. If you want to know more you can click here. If you want to see pictures of what it looks like in temples you can go here.
We were blessed to have so many friends and family come!
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| Grandparents! |
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| Friends! |
Our Forever Family!
Afterwards we had a party at my mom's house. We had a bouncy house, good food, and great weather (for August).
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| Seven of the nine boy cousins on the Petersen side :) |
Family Pictures!
Who doesn't love a bouncy house!
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| Cousin swing time |
Friends and family made this a one of a kind experience. My heart is full knowing all the love that surrounds us!
