So you've all come to learn by now, Tahoe holds a very special place in Mackenzie's heart.
It's where she grew up, it's her favorite ski mountain, but it's also played an important
backdrop for her and Teddy's relationship.
In fact, we first got to know Teddy not as Mackenzie's significant other, but as Cooper's
colleague and friend who would join us for an occasional friends weekend up here in Tahoe.
A few weeks later, Mackenzie informed me that she was going to join Coop and Teddy for a
road trip down to Mammoth for a ski weekend.
If you've ever spent time with Coop and Teddy one-on-one, their energy level is up to here
and their lingo is very hard to keep up with.
But keep up Mackenzie did and I specifically recall when you came home, there was a plop
of your duffel bag at the front door and you said, oh God, Jen, I have a huge crush on
Teddy and it's not good.
Sometime in the winter of 2015, I realized that I was lucky enough to have found the
one meant for me.
We're getting ready to leave Lake Tahoe, but instead of packing up, you're standing outside
facing Skyward with your arms stretched out, sucking up every last minute in the falling
snow.
To me that moment represents your amazing ability to never take the moments, people
and places that you love for granted.
Teddy, you are without a doubt the most genuinely enthusiastic person I've ever been lucky enough
to know.
Your positive spirit is infectious, because of you I smile more and I live life more passionately.
Mack, we want you to know how grateful we are that our brother has found you and got
to marry you today.
We've been waiting for this day since Teddy first told us about you.
It was clear that you were completely different from any girl he'd met before, that you were
special and that you're the perfect match for Teddy.
I remember being in a text message chain with the two of them, that was always going off
and I had very little to contribute, so it was somewhere around this point when my beautiful
girlfriend Amy said, you know, I think Teddy might have a thing for Mack.
A few months later, Teddy told me he was going to ask my sister on a date, a few years later
he told me he was going to ask her to marry him.
Teddy, I could not picture a better person to be marrying my sister.
Thank you for always treating her the way she deserves.
I have no doubt you'll continue to do so for the rest of our lives.
In honor of her mom Mackenzie and Teddy would like to share a letter from Nancy that she
wrote a couple of months before passing away, you're on your way for great adventures.
Be safe, be happy, but above all be filled with glee.
For in the long run life is quite short, so while you have it, use it to the limit.
Get it all in, whatever you can fit into the moment, for that particular moment will never
repeat itself in that exact way.
I hear a train, I hear a lot of dress, I hear a lot of dress, wow.
Homeschooling for Mack, she got to do a lot of things that most kids don't do, but her
favorites were I think painting and writing, and I probably should have brought it so you
could see it, but it's a big, because I can't describe it as well as she can paint it, but
it's a big watercolor, and it starts with these concentric circles on the outside and
they kind of work their way into the middle, and the middle is a big gold medallion.
So I asked Mack, I said, explain this thing to me, so he said, well, you know, these outer
circles are all when I was skiing with you and the family, and that's skiing with my
friends, then skiing on the ski team, and the big middle is when I was in the gold medallion,
the Olympics.
Well, Mack, as I see it, the gold you won was teddy, and that's all worth a lot more than
Olympic gold medallion.
I promise to join you in seeking out the moments that make life special and never take them
for granted.
I promise to always be honest with you.
I promise to grow closer to you even as time changes us.
I promise to always have you as my friend on powder days, and I promise to call your
heart my home no matter where life takes us, and if we end up in Tahoe or more likely Mammoth.
I promise to never forget that you made me the luckiest girl in the world when you asked
me on a 5 a.m. sunrise hike, and I promise to always be thankful that I actually got
out of bed and went with you that day, because that day changed my life.
I am beyond stoked to spend the rest of my life with you.
I will be thankful every moment of every day that you are my forever adventure partner,
and I will love you always.
I now pronounce you husband and wife.
And now you kids.
