Family Time With The Browns

I got up at 5:30am to drive to GA with my dad yesterday morning.

We were going to my grandpa's brother's funeral; He was my great uncle.

I really don't remember much of him, but going to the funeral I got to hear a lot about Hoyt Brown, and he sounded like a really nice man that I would loved to have known better. He was a Christ follower; a believer in Jesus; a man of God and that is must be such  a comfort to the people closest to him.

I really enjoyed seeing my family.

The Browns (and a Harrelson) are so much fun!

My dad drove to the Columbia Mall where we met Dennis (my uncle) and Kim (my aunt).

We then drove from there to my grandparents' (my dad's mom and dad) house.

I  really enjoyed talking to Mot and Popa. I love them, and they are so sweet together!  They still both love and enjoy each other so so much!

I got to see Linda and Eddie Ray too.

I absolutely love them!

Linda is one of the sweetest people I know!

She reminds me so much of my little sister Nona. They both have sweet spirits and are such happy people,

and I adore Eddie Ray!

I'm so thankful Linda and Eddie Ray got married! If they didn't I might not even know him!

He's one of my most favorite people.

Our drive to GA was nothing close to boring!
Kim is so funny, and I've never met anyone who has as many funny stories, and who is so willing to share them all.
Anyone who knows my dad will tell you he's a very funny person,and his big brother  Dennis is extemely funny as well!

I think he, maybe, has an extra section in his head that's just for pure clever funniness!

Dennis said that whole day that he wanted to take me to go to get a hot dog at "skins".

So, on our way home we went by for some of the best hot dogs I've ever eaten!

There were pictures all over the place, but these two were my favorite!

I thought they were both pretty funny.

Here I am obeying the sign, but really the verse below is my motivation.

 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart

be acceptable in your sight, O Lord my rock and redeemer.

Psalm 19:14

I'm going to go read my bible now.

I'm  reading through the bible in 90 days and I'm really enjoying it!

♥ 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!