WEDDING!!!!!

On April 18, 2009, my baby brother took a step that every big sister dreads and cherishes at the same time. Luckily, my brother picked well and therefore that day was all joy and celebration. Nikki is such a sweet, sweet girl with a good heart. Her two little boys are wonderful and I couldn't wish for better cousins for my children. I know that Josh and Nikki will have a wonderful life and I am so excited to have a new sister!
Also, like any good mommy, this post is going to be mostly about the flower girl, who I think stole the show! ;)

Abby and mommy waiting on pictures.

Aren't they so pretty?

Abby and Pappaw Lee (my mom's dad)-Doesn't he look handsome?

Abby "primping" before the wedding-yeah, that's what we'll call it-"primping"

Abby and Pops-she was upset here because she wanted to go run and play with Dominic and Isaiah and I had the audacity to make her stop and take a picture...

So pretty!

Nikki and me-isn't she just beautiful?

There they are looking all pretty again! Nikki really wants a girl and loves to help Abby priss and primp (real primp, not the "primp" I was talking about earlier...) :)

Abby kept saying, "I look like a princess!"

The wedding was wonderful, but the funny stories are all about Abby. The night of the rehearsal, we gave her 5-6 petals to practice with. She had to have them perfectly spaced out. She dropped one took two steps, dropped another, then looked back to see how evenly spaced they were. Then she took two more steps, dropped another and then looked to make sure they were evenly spaced. When she got to the front, Josh said, "You missed a spot." And she turned around and said, "Where?"

Then on the way back out, she started trying to pick them up. We told her she didn't have to pick them up and she gave us the weirdest look. :)

The day of the wedding, I told Abby she had to be extra good and couldn't cry all day because Aunt Nikki was nervous and crying would make her more nervous. Nikki wasn't really nervous, but hey, it worked.

When Abby was coming down the aisle, she had lots more petals, but she still made sure they were perfectly placed. One was apparently not good enough, so she turned around, went back and fixed it. Everyone in attendance was laughing at her (in a good way, obviously). Then she managed to fall asleep on one of the steps during the service. The wedding was right during her nap time and she hadn't had a nap. It was so precious. On the way back out, she had more petals in her basket and started dropping them. Finally someone at the back of the church managed to convince her to go on down the aisle and stop dropping petals.

Oh yeah, somewhere in there, Josh and Nikki got married. :) It was a beautiful ceremony, and our family is so blessed to have three new wonderful additions.