Our niece Alicia Ruth is being married this coming Sunday - she is the youngest of the nine grandchildren on my side of the family and will forever be Little Alicia Ruth in my book. She was the sweetest baby, a talkative preschooler, had the longest golden-colored hair (I loved fixing it with lots of ponytails and barettes), the biggest innocent eyes and the most charming laugh. My favorite image of her was captured in a photograph at about age five - she is jumping off the dock at my parent's cottage, into an inner tube in the lake below, her long braids flying out from her head. The pure joy shown in that photo expresses the essence of Alicia Ruth perfectly! She will be a wonderful wife to Matt, and when the time comes, a loving mother. May God bless this young couple with a long and joyful marriage!!
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