Peggy Sue Got Married

Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 10, 2007

of course, i don’t know peggy sue, but i DO know heather and stephen. and while not married, they are engaged, which is step 17 in tommy nelson’s 21 step guide to getting married : ) anyhow, stephen and i are geniuses and as such, we hatched an elaborate plan (that involved sara faking a birthday) to have a suprise engagement party for him and heather. we invited many of all of our friends over to the nix residence (after all, it was sara’s fake birthday) and had willie’s cater the event. our backup plan (if she had said “no”) was to not let any of her friends in and to shift the focus from tacos to margheritas. luckily we did not have to envoke our emergency scenario protocols as she did accept the ring (which was lovely btw). we had plenty of good friends, good laughs, a champagne toast, and a really touching and amazing mini-speech from heather (which followed an uncharacteristically laconic pronouncement from stephen). the bar has definitely been set for stephen’s address at the rehearsal dinner.

anyway, here is a picture of most of the hosts.

and her is a picture of lillis attempting to choke me to death. that would have certainly cast a pallor over the scene.

here’s the lovely couple. this pic is notable for three reasons. the first and most obvious is that they’re the engaged couple. the second is that it is stephen’s first ever picture with his eyes fully open (after a little pre-pic coaching),and the third is that it is about 11PM at this point, and heather is still awake and energetic despite not having slept AT ALL the night before. i suspect that the light from some distant star was reflecting off of her engagment ring filling her room with far too much light for sleeping.

finally, here’s a “late night” picture of brent getting cozy with his pooch. what a lovely couple, they are.

anyway, we couldn’t possibly, be any happier for stephen and heather. particularly, having seen much of stephen’s growth (along with mine) over the past 2 or 3 years and having had numerous discussions (about the ladies) it is amazing to see him moving forward into marriage. i wish them every possibly happiness. here are the pics from the partay (along with some awesome – or aweseomely bad – videos).

oh, and if you don’t happen to know the story, here is the snowboarding video (scroll down to the bottom of the linked page) that i loaded onto my phone so i could show heather at a fusion event, thereby allowing her to be impressed by how “awesome” stephen is on a snowboard – $20K worth of lessons, well spent!!! i tried to impress lillis with my “taboo” skills and my “wakeboarding” skills, but she was better at taboo, and better behind a boat. i guess i’ll just have to settle for having killer “nun chuck” skills.

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  1. Heather says:

    This is FABULOUS Charles! Thank you for putting it together & for also organizing such a wonderful evening for us. It all started w/the video you showed me…you are a self-less man & a good friend to Stephen. I’m grateful for your prayers & your constant support to Stephen. Blessings to you … and your other half…Lillis… Much love, heather.




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