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Brian and Whitney get married!

Our family has been waiting for this day for well over a year!  My little brother, Brian, finally married Whitney a couple weeks ago.  Such a wonderful weekend!
I mean, how cute are they?!


The first night was the rehearsal, of course, but I didn't get many pictures.
I do have a fun little story, though...
Jackson was the ring bearer, and Whitney wanted him to walk arm and arm with the flower girl, Delaney.  But, he wouldn't do it.  I thought maybe it was because he didn't know her before that night, but no, that's way too simple for Jackson.  Jackson didn't want to walk down the aisle with Delaney because he thought if he walked down the (wedding) aisle with this stranger-girl, he'd be married to her!  bahahahahahahahaha!  That is hysterical!
Once we assured him that they would not be married if he walked arm and arm with this (super sweet) little girl, he was totally fine with it.
But look at their little faces.  And their little fists.  Hahahahaha!  This is totally new territory for them.


That night at the rehearsal dinner, we caught a picture of this adorable little superhero-


I posted this picture of Jim and me on Facebook because we're rarely dressed up these days...


but I didn't post the photo of this cute little creeper.
He's so dang cute!


I won't post too many pictures of the bride and groom because I don't want to steal their thunder, but I have lots of pictures of my littles!  ...and a few of the bride and groom too.

Well, first, you can't have a proper wedding reception without cake.


And a first dance.



And a mother-son dance.


So with all the dancing going on, I guess Jackson thought it was a good time to ask me to dance.  It was such an important moment for me, it was the first time one of my boys asked me to dance. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of that dance.  It brings tears to my eyes just thinking about that sweet boy asking his mama to dance.

Then, there was some line-dancing going on, and Jackson had no idea how to line-dance, but he got out there anyway!  Watch out, ladies, here he comes!



Harrison wasn't going to let Jackson get all the attention! 
I think he was break dancing...??


At one point, I see Jackson just sitting with some new friends, enjoying the night, and I thought, man, it's going by too fast.  Every time I look at Jackson, he looks more and more like a little man.  He's so much closer to being a teenager and farther and farther away from being a baby. 
My heart can't take it.


And I realized, I had no idea where my other children were...
I found Austin behind me.  He didn't want me to take his picture, so he was "shooing" me away.


Then, I found my youngest little guy, just standing by himself, taking a moment.


It was such a fun, beautiful night.  I'm so glad Whitney is officially part of our family, though we've felt like she was one of us for a long, long time now.
I'll end with this cute picture of Delaney, the flower girl, keeping Harrison entertained.


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