Wedding Reception at The Arizona Inn

Loisanne and James

Lynn and son Jeremy 

Lynn dancing with her brother Spencer Stuart

"The bride feeds the groom"

Wedding at St. Philips in the Hills

Florist pinning boutonniere on Jeremy

Jeremy escorting his Mother up the aisle

In the Brides room with Deb and Bill Creeden

Toms's sisters Frances Wessley, Jane Marcoux and Mary Barrows

Jeremy Harrigan, Kate Bishopp and Edward Ekkers with their parents

St. Philips in the Hills

El Charo Informal Meet and Greet
The night before the rehearsal, we met with out of town visitors for an informal dinner at our local Mexican cantina

Rehearsal Dinner
Rhoda and Richard Mesker (sister and brother in law of Lynn) hosted a rehearsal dinner at Lowes Ventana Canyon Resort.   Last photo:  Lynn's Sister, Brother, Nephew Sloan Stuart
with Tom and Lynn

Lynn's family and Alton IL gang

Tom's family

Stillman (Saint) St. Clair, Lynn & Laurie Hollingsworth

Cam Fordyce, David Cheek (cousin) Cathy & Bill Powell      

Rehearsal  
The canon of St. Philips in the Hills was to have presided at our wedding, and we went to the Pre Cana conferences with John Kitigawa. However, his mother died a few days before our wedding day, as Rev. Vicki Hess, just newly ordained, stepped in. She came to our house to get to know us. It was her first wedding! And she did a great job.

This is a post of our wedding on Jan. 12, 2013

Our friends Bobbie and Chuck Woodman and Jackie and Cam Fordyce gave us an engagement party

 Lynn's engagement ring, which she picked out on our trip to San Francisco

 Our friends sang a Fordyce original song to toast us

 Below are Cinni, Mary Tiedeman, Laurie Hollingsworth, and Janiss and Reid McKiee. Mary died suddenly the summer before our wedding, and her family allowed my sisters Mary, Fran and Janie to stay in her house for the wedding.

WE had lunch with Anne Schilling, Tom's RN for over 10 years, now living in Estero, Florida

More pictures

Clara Jane Ekkers and Quinn McDermott having a plastic meal at the Barrows party

Clara Jane and Joe try on some of the Disney high heels at the Barrows

Returning from the Boca Resort beach where Susie and Less hosted us for the day

Scott Bishopp and Laura McDermott at Tom's birthday dinner

Mary Jo, Tom And Suzanne at Caps Place in Boca for a dinner out.

Ted took this picture of Tom for the St. Johnland Annual Report. They asked for a picture at the time we were in Florida.

Party at Dom and Mary Barrows

The Ekkers and Bishopp's arrived Friday, which was cool but better than where they came from!
Saturday Mary and Don Barrows had everyone to their condo for a party.

Florida Feb. 2015

The Ekkers family at Tom's 75 th birthday dinner in Boca

Lynn with Ken (Tom's cousin on the Ekkers side)) and Sharon Celic

Don and Mary Barrows, Tom and Suzanne and Les Stephens

On the beach at our Marriott hotel

Pool at Marriott

Pool at Marriott. The pool was nice and warm! Julie Ekkers with her bambini

We are going to Florida for two weeks, and will post some entries.
Tom

Reactivating blog

We are heading to Florida, and want to post some pictures on our blog. Tom has pretty well forgotten the whole drill, so this is a test.
Two years ago, on Jan 12, 2013, we were married in St. Phillips in the Hills Church, pictured here.