Melissa and Jonathan's wedding

I wanted to put up a few pictures of Melissa's wedding. Everything was SO beautiful. Melissa was gorgeous...absolutely striking. I was stressed out as to whether or not Lily was going to make it down the aisle. While we were trying to take pictures pre-ceremony, she was crawling under furniture and rolling on the floor. You can see that in Melissa's lap she was not happy about getting her picture taken. But when the time came for us to line up, something clicked inside her, and she did exactly what she was supposed to do! She was absolutely smitten with the ringbearer, Wyatt, which helped. He was a couple of years older and so precious. She still asks about him even a month after the wedding! But you can see that as they were walking down the aisle Lily reached over to hold Wyatt's hand! It was so sweet! Couldn't have planned anything cuter!

Their photographer Amber did a great job.

Phone Fascination

Luke is in that stage where he is totally intrigued by cell phones...or any phone. Whenever he hears one ring, even a ring tone play, he puts his hand up to his ear and says his version of, "Hello." So cute. My brother James and his girlfriend Krista were letting Luke play with their cell phones one afternoon. My favorite face is when the phone that he's holding lights up and his mouth opens as wide as it can go!

trains at the Gaylord

While our husbands were out of town a few weeks ago, Kristyn, Faith and I took the kids out to see the train exhibit at the Gaylord. The kids loved it. They had free kids meals, free monkey shows and free balloon animals (although you had to endure some awkward comments from the balloon man). We got a double dose of the awkward comments when we had to revisit him to get more balloon animals since Evan threw his and Lily's off the balcony at dinner. It was a fun, and of course, crazy night. :)

Preston getting a little too excited about the trains

"don't mess with us"

flower girl practice

The week before the wedding, Lily, Luke and I met mom and dad at the chapel so Lily could get a feel for walking the aisle.

breaking in her shoes

little brother looking on

Eating her reward - skittles

now for some fun

flower girl dress fitting

My sister Melissa got married this summer and asked Lily to be the flower girl. Lily was thrilled at the thought of wearing a beautiful dress and fancy shoes. My mother in law had her dress made from some extra fabric that came off a St. Pucci wedding dress. Here is Lily trying on the dresses for the first time. She wasn't exactly into posing for the camera so I did the best I could. The pink dress is the one she wore to the rehearsal. The white one is the flower girl dress.

it's been a while...

too long. i blame my blogging absence on my little mac's lack of memory. i guess i could have posted my thoughts in the meantime, but we all like posts with pictures better, right? so thanks to our friend Mo, my mac now has 500 GB, and i was finally able to upload the rest of my photos. a lot has happened this summer. we drove to Arkansas for family camp, married off my sister, Lily did the flower girl thing, celebrated Luke's first birthday and found a house! Yes! it's official- we closed today! so i'm going to play catch up over the next few weeks.