Jennifer Sheehan's wedding

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!

Wilson County Fair

Here are some pictures we took at the Wilson Co. Fair last weekend. We live in Sumner County, but our fair isn't quite as elaborate as this one, so we joined some friends and made the trip over to the next county =)

Love love love this picture

fun night!

Avery turns 4

On August 19, Avery turned 4 years old! At 39lbs and 41.25 inches tall, she is a joy in every way. The weekend before her birthday, Mimi and Aunt Katie came to celebrate, and we had a party with all of her friends at My Gym. 

Here is the birthday girl

With her Rapunzel cake (that I made!)

My Gym parties are so much fun, the teachers there are energetic, the games are age appropriate, and they just do such a great job of making the birthday "girl" feel special.

The best part is when they dressed her up as a princess and rode her around in a circle on a motorcycle, the look on her face was priceless!

her sweet friends

 silly face!

towards the end of the party doing a "go to sleep" game. check out Lucy.

happy girl!

Silly Girls This Summer

Here are some misc pictures from our summer adventures. I sure have some fun, silly girls!

Avery really likes the movie Peter Pan (broadway version) and Peter Pan's signature move is to "crow". Here is Lucy who builds up to it, but finally gets her crow out =)

Avery started taking ballet lessons this summer and really enjoyed that. Here is a picture with her and her friend Annie. The fall session just started up last week and they added tap dancing. You know Avery loves to tap!

Avery and Lucy learned what water balloons were this summer and LOVED them. Lucy liked to squeeze hers, and Avery cradled hers like little eggs until she would accidentally drop them.

On July 23, Dave did the Music City Triathlon, and he had the cutest spectators around.

here is a little interview with Avery & Lucy hanging out around the house

Avery is really into drawing this summer, and loves to draw portraits of her family. (She also likes to draw Rapunzel, Peter Pan on Capt Hook's ship, and rainbows). This picture is of Daddy, Avery, Lucy, & Mommy, with Mimi and Granddaddy. Note the puffed sleeves and eyelashes for the girls and curly hair for Mimi.

My sweet sweet babies!