Introducing...Mr. & Mrs. Cory Nix

I'm a little behind in posting, once again! My niece, Katie, married Cory back on June 11th. The wedding was beautiful and soooo much fun. Of course, all the weddings in our family are ALWAYS a blast! I didn't even drink that much, but was soooo sick and hung over the next day...actually the next few days...we went from the wedding, to packing, to leaving for Tunica the next day for a short gambling trip. Anyway, back on the wedding.....

Congratulations, Katie and Cory. Welcome to the family Cory! We love you both and your two beautiful children!!! And the new one too :)

We took Alli to the wedding, but got a sitter for the triplets. They will get to experience their first wedding when Jason and Kristen get married this fall. She had so much fun dancing and playing with her cousins! I wasn't able to get many ceremony pictures because my camera kept acting up.
Ken and Katie
Libby, Cory, & Cali
Mom walking down the aisle. Alli thought she should be a part of the wedding party ;)
Cory and Kenny
Libby and Jane
The happy parents!
Ken and Jane
Jane, Kelly, and Liz
Katie and Libby
Kelly and Cory
All the Single Ladies.....
Marissa
Me and Liz
Janie and Greg
Courtney, Amy, Billy, and Angela
Me and Jim
Alli dancing with Billy
Grandma and Alli - love this picture!

Nashville Trip

At the end of June, we went to visit my sister and her family in Nashville for the weekend. We didn't get a chance to go anywhere last year, so this was our first time back in 2 years. We left early Saturday morning and the kids were very good on the drive there. We went straight to Jackie's house in hopes to go swimming, but there were some pretty bad storms, so we had to wait a few hours.
Heading out
Bill just built a new music room for the kids, so of course my kids had to check it out....who knows...they might follow in their cousins footsteps!

Jenna
Jimmy
Cassie
Alli
Cassie and Jenna
Waiting for it to get sunny and for the thunder/lightning to stop
We did make it to the pool. Jimmy didn't like it at first..took him about an hour to warm up, but then he did great.
I think at this point, Jimmy was still clinging to me.

Cassie showing me how she puts her head in the water
Jenna - she loves to swim...she is the only one that really understands you can just float with the wings on and go where you want. She's pretty fearless in the water.
Jim
Alli - her lessons are paying off...she is not scared of the water at all. She never really was, but she is pretty daring now and always wants to go under and try to swim without her wings. Actually, last week at the pool, she was able to swim half way across on her own (the short side of the pool). We are still practicing :)
My little swimsuit model....I took a picture of her, and she was like, "No, Mom, wait...let me do this one!!" Cracks me up!
Then....I start taking pictures of Jenna and she, having to be just like Alli, says, "No, do it like this!" "This Way!!!!" in her loud, high-pitched voice.
Then I go to Cassie...she can be so stubborn sometimes...once she has her mind set, she doesn't budge. She decided she didn't want any pictures...so she refused to look up at me, no matter how many times I tried to get her to look at me. She's so funny when she gets like that too b/c she knows she is just trying to piss us off ;)
We didn't stay at Jackie's b/c Alli seems to be pretty allergic to dogs lately, so we didn't want to chance it or make her uncomfortable. So, we got Jackie's Marriott discount... the area we stayed in seemed really cool....tons of restaurants, etc. right near Vanderbilt University. Of course, we were so tired, we didn't really get to check it out. We hung out at the hotel waiting for the rest of the family to get there the next day. The kids were really good, but its pretty hard to keep 4 kids 4 and under quiet. They just don't really understand a quiet voice :)
On Sunday, my mom, two sisters and their families came down too....we went to see Pearl Heart sing at AlexFest. It was a free outside show in honor of Jeff Steele's son that passed away a few years back. It was HHHHOOOTTT!!!! We were only there for a little bit to see my nieces sing, but then went back to the hotel. We were hoping to make it back a little later, but we were just too tired, so we gave the kids naps and hung out at the pool a little later that night.

Pearl Heart even had a special guest with them on stage...their little brother, Billy, playing the fiddle. They all rocked it, like usual!

When walking to the playground, they saw some puppies, so they wanted to pet them and play with them. They were all having fun at the playground until Jimmy decided he would pick up a bee and then it stung him on his thumb. It was all sort of downhill from there....
Triplets had their own bed in the second hotel....
And Alli got to sleep with Mommy and Daddy. Of course, she made me take her picture in bed b/c I took one of Jen, Jim, & Cass all together
Jenna wearing Jackie D's cowboy hat
Liz teaching Alli how to play some game on her phone

Overall, we had a great trip! We can't wait to go on another vacation next year (on top of another trip to Nashville). We were really impressed with how good the kids were in the car and the hotel.