Hey everyone,

I finally got around to putting some pictures up here for you to see. This is a mixture of us and others but all from the wedding. I don't remember if you got some of these already, but here they are anyway. Enjoy!

Here is Carol and Jasper before the whole thing started during the almost 1 hour wait.

This is the Curitiba group (Flora is missing). It was really fun to see Renan, Carol and Tiago.

As always, Mogui and Marquinos look great. They seemed very happy always having a smile and encouraging words for whoever.

Though Jessi wasn't in the wedding, she did grab the attention of everyone who saw her. She got to sit with 'grandma' during the wedding.

Here Jasper is heading down the aisle for the first time. She did it a second time with the pillow holding the rings, but we didn't get a good picture of her. She was a beautiful princess!

Carol and Renan spent a while talking about Quest and where Renan is at making his choice of coming on board or not. He is at the point that needs to be decided and to live out the consiquence of that decission.

This is the only picture anyone has of the bride and her flower girl. It was late and nothing was going to keep Jasper awake, not even the band. She fell asleep at the table while eating, literally!
These two could almost share clothes. Jessi's growing fast and Jordana stopped a long time ago.

Scott & Patsy, just to make you feel more part of what was all going on and because we knew you really wanted to be here, we took this picture of you with us. Patsy you are sitting with Shannon and Carol and Scott you are standing between Flora and Tiago.

...and here are your plates. Don't worry we ate them for you and they were good.

Oh yeah, this is why we were all partying.

Pipa is finally showing a little passion for something!

This is to show you Jordana's dress. She got it made special.

It was very beautiful!

Jaden is growing soooo much. He is now wearing a size 10 shoe and is only 1 inch shorter than Shannon. He has grown 5.5 inches since coming here. He is also starting to show a growth is maturity. It's funny,c ause he'll do something and Shannon and I will look at each other as to say, "Where did that come from."

Believe it or not, Lidi caught the boquet. Yikes!

Pipa & Jordana Pieper

Don't they look beautiful?

They all sang Happy Birhday for the 3 of us. It was speacial.

Doesn't Shannon look great!

So that's it for now. I hope you all enjoyed the brief summary of the wedding. It was very nice and informal as we have come to expect form Pipa. There was no big program during the meal, only a band made up of students that go to school with Jordana. The time was spent raoming around and talking with people.

Al & Brenda, mom told us about the results of your surgery or exam. Sounds good!

Markus & Teresa, You will be almost ready to leave by now. Have a safe trip and a great time in Canada.

Scott & Patsy, I listened to the game last night. It was a good one for you to go to.

Dad & mom thanks for the call and the update on life back home.

Have a great day and we look forward to hearing from you all.

Love you all,

Dwayne & Shannon

Hey everyone,

I'm writing this so I guess your invitation to co-author worked, Patsy. We are home from Pelotas and just got our internet fixed here at home half an hour ago. Well, we'll write more later, I just want to see how this worked. Have a great evening.

Dwayne

p.s. mom and dad we are only 2 hours different now and Scott & Patsy, 1 hour.

Hey family,
I think I've figured out now how you can all access the blog. I invited you all to be authors. We haven't figured out yet how to get our Quest blog and Frances blog off of our google account, but if it could work like this for now, that would be great. Sorry about the inconvenience. we love you all.

Patsy

So we started to pack a few things for the big move!





And so to save space in the car, Jasper fits perfectly into this box!!



We'll make some air holes, and put some food and water inside!!! That will make it more humane!!!!

You know your small when????????????

Hey family,

It's been a while since i wrote so here's a brief update!
While we wait on the finances for Quest we are going to head down to Pelotas for about 9 days. Lidi has a graduation to go to this Saturday and we will spend the week with her family and then the following Saturday is Pipa's wedding. Jasper is the flower girl and is very excited about twirling around in her poofy dress and new sandals. She is a drama girl!! We will take our school stuff with us this time because we have alot to catch up on and if Jaden and Dwayne go to Canada in August we will need to make up for that time. Jasper is keen on doing some school work so that is nice instead of the why do we have to do school, or why do i have to learn about that?????? hmmm, i seem to remember using a few of those phrases myself.

Anyway we are excited watching and hearing the feed back about Quest and because it is so out of our control as to the finances we are pretty calm and at peace. So far things have stayed pretty low key here as we wait, and haven't had many problems as of late with JTB. They are just waiting for us to leave and that's okay. We don't have much contact with them, besides paying the monthly bills and a few hellos here and there. We are just looking ahead to how this will all workout to God's glory and i think that is the best place to be.

How are you all doing in Germany?
How's school going for the kids?
How's work and groups?
We sure miss you guys and hope you really have a good time in Canada with family for Easter break.

Lotsa love,
Shannon