Flower Girl Debut

This past weekend we were in Lawrenceville, Georgia for Amber and Kevin's wedding and Shelby's debut as a flower girl. (For readers on my dad's side of the family, Amber is the granddaughter of Aunt JoAnn and Uncle Travis. Many of you know them.)

Friday morning, we left Tennessee with plenty of time to get to our hotel, clean up, and change for the wedding rehearsal at 5:30...at least we thought so. Just over 30 miles west of Birmingham, we were told that tornado warnings had been issued for the next 30 miles ahead. So that put a snag in our travel time. It rained on us most of the day and traffic was terrible! We did not make it to rehearsal and were even late to the rehearsal dinner. But, we made it safely and for that we are thankful. We counted 12 accidents during our drive on Friday.

Saturday morning we hung out with my parents and other family members at the hotel. The wedding was on the grounds of the Gwinnett Historic Courthouse and pictures were at 3:30. We hurried back to our hotel after Shelby's pictures were done so that Channing and I could get dressed for the wedding at 6.

Shelby did a great job as flower girl! Her daddy stayed with her right up until it was time to go down the aisle. She walked down saying, "Hi!" to everybody. Shelby did stand up at the front for a few minutes but that didn't last very long at all. She saw us seated on the third row and came to sit with us, which we were totally expecting. After the last prayer of the ceremony, the preacher said "Amen" and Shelby said "Amen" really loud in agreement. It was adorable!

I know some of you were praying for Shelby this past weekend. Thank you. Your prayers were answered. She did a great job!