Last night Jonathan Rethorn asked our daughter, Elizabeth Bayly, to marry him. We're blessed by God's provision of Jonathan for Elizabeth--he's become a dear friend to our family. Jonathan's parents, Peter and Lena Rethorn, have been friends for years and now we have the joy of sharing Elizabeth and Jonathan with them.
We rather hope for several reasons that Jonathan and Elizabeth take more than six months to arrange their wedding. If they don't, well, we have four plane tickets to Europe to sell for cheap....
It became clear that Jonathan and Elizabeth were likely headed somewhere beyond friendship last winter when Elizabeth's MacBook died in Peru and Jonathan FedExed her a new, formatted hard drive with the latest Mac OS already installed, as well as all tools for pulling the old and installing the new drive and a complete step-by-step pictorial guide to replacement.
