This weekend, we packed up the birthday girl & Lucy and ventured up to Lexington, KY for my cousin Jennifer Sheehan's wedding to her adorable, funny-man fiance, Bill Allen. I wish I could draw you a family tree to show you how literally every living person that I am related to came together for this event. Avery and my cousin Christy's daughter, Ellie, were the 2 cutest flower girls ever, and the whole weekend went off without a hitch (well, almost)
Here are Ellie, Avery, and Hannah (my cousin Sara's youngest daughter)
running around with cousins is the best!
Aunt Nancy remembered Avery's birthday and had a cake for her at the rehearsal dinner!
Backyard Brunch at my Aunt Ellen's house Saturday morning. Dad reading books to the girls so they stay out of trouble =)
Katie & Jordan
Jennifer with the hostesses... Linda, Charlene, Ellen & Kathy
Avery with Ellie, the other flower girl. They had never met each other but luckily became friends right away. Ellie is also 4 years old and lives in Lexington.
Lucy and Avery hanging out, harmlessly messing around in the dirt.
then my girls start playing with their slightly older and cooler cousins (Mary Browder & Madeline Howell and Rachel & Hannah Roberts). Right after this picture was taken, I took Lucy in the house for a blueberry muffin, turned my back on Avery and these girls for 2 seconds, and...
BAM! They found a wagon in the garage, loaded Avery in, and immediately flung her out onto the concrete face first. Shoot, so much for a Christmas card picture. Avery had an awful black eye for the rest of the day, but was luckily in good spirits and did fulfill all of her flower girl duties, despite the less than flawless flower girl complexion =( Sorry Jennifer!
A nap and a dab of concealer later, we were back in action.
my and my dear cousin Julie
Here she is! She did so wonderfully, I was shaking with pride. Ellie decided not to join her walking down the aisle, but Avery took it in stride, and said she still wanted to go because she LOVES being a flower girl!
Mary Browder "hugging" Avery and little brother Owen
Avery with Jason & Renee's 3 kids- Madeline, Mary Browder & Owen
Jennifer & Bill
the girls with Julie's cutie-pie, Jacob
Jennifer with the girls, love this picture
The Sanger/Morris clan
the kids dancing the night away while the adults were in the next room over eating dinner
The reception was at Keeneland, the famous horse-racing venue in Lexington. It was beautiful! Lucy didn't join us at the wedding or reception, since her 18 month old busy-body self would have put a damper on my fun, but she had lots of fun with our dear friend Joni Beth Lattus Waldroup who agreed to help me and babysat her in the hotel room. Gotta love JB!
We had such a great weekend, lots of thanks to the Sheehans & fam!
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