♥ Alston and Marina Brown ♥

This is my cousin, Alston, and his beautiful new wife Marina.

 I didn't have a picture of the new Brown family on their wedding day so I "took" this one from my cousin Jenna's blog. She's has an amazing eye for photography!

 Alston and Marina were married on the 14th and it was so  much fun to experience a Greek wedding. It was intriguing to see how much tradition they have held on to. It actually makes me realize how much tradition we lack!

It was so sweet and we're all so excited to have Marina in our fam!

My moma is so pretty, and I just have to say I have one cutie of a brother, too, who was also an usher!

My handsome daddy and me!

Here's the wedding cake!

Juuuust kidding. This was the grooms cake at the rehearsal dinner.

It fit the theme of the rehearsal dinner perfectly because Alston's an outdoorsman.

The duck is made of rice crispy treats. The cake was one layer of strawberry and one layer lemon, and the big hunka wood was made from... a tree! It would take the team of Cake Boss people to make cake look like a tree. heeheehe

I know this is so blurry, but I love this picture! There was lots of dancing at this wedding. The people who were Greek were so much fun to watch! They had so many different dances and they would all get together in a circle, and they all looked like they had done it before!

We didn't do any of the the Greek dances, but we did a little American dance'n... like the macaraina, and the electric slide...

Here's Mot and Nona.

We literally had to take about 7 because Nona wanted so much to have a picture with her tongue sticking out or looking crosseyed or whatever she was doing.


Here's the wedding cake. Prettier than the grooms cake if you ask me. ;)

Here's my dad and Dennis. Jenna's daddy and my dad's big brother. They were standing in front of the church. I would have taken pictures of the beautiful stained glass art inside the church the, amazingly, huge painting of Jesus on the top of the ceiling, but there was no flash photography allowed inside.

Here's dad and Kimmi. I love this picture of Kimmi. So pretty.

The wedding was so much fun and really sweet!

Congratulations Alston and Marina!

 Love you guys so much!

• Jessie Worshiping •

  For as long as I can remember, we have been singing the song Crown Him With Many Crowns during our family worship, and once Max, 3 1/2, came along he started thrusting his fists into the air about every 30 seconds with the tempo of the song.  For example: Crown Him wih many crowns (He woud throw his hands up after this line.) And then: the Lamb upon the throne (He'd do it here too.) Hark how the heavenly anthem drowns all music but it's own. (You get what I'm saying? ) It's very cute and contagious but has become more of a sporting event in the Brown household. We all do it now. Even Jessie. It's so cute, and it makes her look like a big girl. We're really not charasmatic, but maybe Jessie's trying to push us in that direction. heehee

The first little Brown kid that really really loved this song was Kamryn, 7 1/2. When  the babies are young they always just walk around while we read the bible and talk, but if we ever want that little one to come sit with us we just break out in Crown Him With Many Crowns. We know if we do that whatever baby is walking around will come running to find a lap to sit and sing along.

Jessies's mouth is wide open because she's singing with passion! Or at least she's attemptig to sing. It's more like a loud yell, but as you can very well see Jessie gets into it what she's doing.

Last night was the first time she started doing it, so this is definitely "blog" worthy! ;)

•My Cup Of Coffee•

Q: what's better than finding a dollar in your pocket?

A: Finding a good song on your iPod you didn't even know existed! hehehe

It really is a great song. It's one of those songs that make you feel good. I call those types of songs my "cup of coffee". Well, anyway I have been lying in bed for the past three hours, and I can no longer sleep! Too excited! I was listening to this song over and over. I put it on repeat so I now know almost every word! WOOHOO!

It's a hymn that was written in the 1800's, so this is an old song. I usually prefer the new-er music like: Rush of Fools, MercyMe and Brandon Heath. That type of stuff, but this one was just really pretty! Here are the lyrics.

Jesus I Come

Out of my bondage, sorrow, and night,
Jesus, I come, Jesus, I come;
Into Thy freedom, gladness, and light,
Jesus, I come to Thee;
Out of my sickness, into Thy health,
Out of my want and into Thy wealth,
Out of my sin and into Thyself,
Jesus, I come to Thee.

Out of my shameful failure and loss,
Jesus, I come, Jesus, I come;
Into the glorious gain of Thy cross,
Jesus, I come to Thee.
Out of earth’s sorrows into Thy balm,
Out of life’s storms and into Thy calm,
Out of distress to jubilant psalm,
Jesus, I come to Thee.

Out of unrest and arrogant pride,
Jesus, I come, Jesus, I come;
Into Thy blessèd will to abide,
Jesus, I come to Thee.
Out of myself to dwell in Thy love,
Out of despair into raptures above,
Upward for aye on wings like a dove,
Jesus, I come to Thee.

Out of the fear and dread of the tomb,
Jesus, I come, Jesus, I come;
Into the joy and light of Thy throne,
Jesus, I come to Thee.
Out of the depths of ruin untold,
Into the peace of Thy sheltering fold,
Ever Thy glorious face to behold,
Jesus, I come to Thee.

You should listen to it as well. Here's the song.  My goal is to learn how to play this on my guitar.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

•Jessie's New Toy•

We went to the mountains last week and while we were there, we all went to our favorite little gift shop called The Wrinkled Egg. It's so cute and it has lots of toys, candles, candy, real bunnies and pizza. Jessie, my 15 month old little sister, who usually doesn't have too many tantrums "threw one" in The Wrinkled Egg. My mom was holding her, and she showed Jessie a little toy. Ok, I say toy, but this thing was no toy. Especially not a toy for a baby girl. The toy was shaped like a jelly octopus, and it had eyeballs on each of the many, many tentacles. When my mom put this "toy" back Jessie started to cry. Then it got worse, and worse. She got more and more mad and she was screaming, and she was crying. We were leaving, mainly because she was being so loud, and we got in the van. My dad got in the car and my mom told him why she was so upset, and so my dad sent me in to go buy it for her. My dad came in after me with Jessie. He told her in her ear all the way that" Daddy's gunna get you the toy." It was very sweet and gracious of my dad. She went from crying histerically to VERY happy. It was so cute. That was the first time she has ever cried because she wanted something from a store, so my guess is that's why my dad let in. He's just getting too soft in his old age. Jessie is the youngest and just might end up being a little bit spoiled. =D

Miss Personality

♥ Jessie ♥

Mom and Dad

I think this is a sweet picture of my mom and dad. = ) They love each other so much, and they give such a great example of what a Godly marriage should look like. = ) My mom has been helping me the past few weeks on homemaking. Like laundry, keeping my room organized and cooking, I really need help with cooking hehehe! I'm getting better though.

Well, I just wanted to put a pic of my parents, I didn't have any of them. Hope every one is having a good week. = D

Most Beautiful Weather EVER!

I'm sitting on my porch because it is so GORGEOUS outside! I love this time of year, this and fall, when it's not too cold and not too hot. It's actually more warm than cold right now. I love it! This is the best time to sit outside and read a book, or make a blog post. I love reading outside when it's breezy. I'm starting to get more excited about summer. I usually don't like summer as much as spring and fall because, like my dad, I'm not a heat person. I'm tired of it being cold and there is always a way to keep cool somehow in the summer. = ) Well, I'm going to go read a book. I'm Reading the book A Morbid Taste For Bones and it's definitely not my favorite read so far, but it's for school. = ) 

I know this picture has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm talking about but I just love it!