The Wyatt Family: Mr. and Mrs. Cockrell

No, this post is not about my grandparents or my parents. It is about my brother, Craig, and his new wife, Jacqueline... the new Mr. and Mrs. Cockrell. Their wedding was on June 4th and Ava, Macy, and I were all lucky enough to play a part in the wedding. Everything about the wedding was elegant, classy, beautiful, and FUN! I was an emotional mess for three days straight! There is just something about seeing your baby brother all grown up, and so happy, and so crazy in love that just gets to you! I never expected to be so emotional but it was definitely happy tears. I was (and am) just SO happy for them. We started the wedding weekend on Thursday afternoon after work. I think this may have been another reason why I was emotional. Thursday was my last day to work at Poynter Elementary... EVER. Since we are moving, I will be leaving Crowley ISD and it was very sad to say goodbye to some people that I have grown quite close to over the past three years. I had planned on leaving school at 3:30 on Thursday but at 4:15 one of my friends came in and said, "What in the world are you still doing here and why are you nowhere near ready to leave?!?" I wasn't even close to being done so she started throwing stuff in boxes and loading my car for me while I finished wrapping up a few paperwork things. I left school about 4:45 and ran home, unloaded my car, reloaded my car with the things I had packed to take to Arkansas, swung by daycare and picked up the girls, and we were on our way to the wedding. Ben had worked in Little Rock that week so he just met us in Fayetteville. We ended up getting to town at about midnight on Thursday.

I met up with mom and my cousin Lizzie to head to the Bridesmaid's Luncheon on Friday morning. The luncheon was so nice. It was at Jacqueline's parents house in her mom's beautiful backyard. Mrs. Susan is an amazing gardner and has flowers for days in her backyard so it was a nice setting for the luncheon.

Lizzie, Jacqueline, me, and Mom at the Bridesmaid's Luncheon

Friday night was the Rehearsal at the church and the Rehearsal Dinner at the Botanical Gardens in Fayetteville. Mom did an awesome job with this. It was very elegant and so pretty with the garden in the background. The food was great too. It was so fun to have ALL of my family in one place at one time this weekend. I guess the only other time that both sides of my family were together at once was my wedding, but I didn't really get to enjoy everyone then.

A view of the rehearsal dinner

My friend, Andrea, was SO sweet to keep Ava and Macy for me during the Rehearsal Dinner. The girls were flower girls so they needed to be at the actual rehearsal but I did not want to chase them aroud the Botanical Gardens all night so I called in the troops. And the girls had a blast. Here are some pics that Andrea sent me of their fun night.

Coloring

She even put them in their pajamas!

Saturday was Wedding Day!! Since I was a Bridesmaid, I went out to Jacqueline's parents house around 11:00 and spent the day getting ready with the other Bridesmaids. Even though I promised my mom that I would take pictures of us getting ready, I don't have any. In fact, I did not take any pictures all weekend. ZERO. NOT A SINGLE ONE. How crazy is that? The few pictures that I do have are borrowed from other people.

We did Bridesmaid pictures at Jacqueline's parents house and then went straight to Carnall Hall for family pictures. Because I was out all day, I had to totally trust other people to get Ava and Macy ready. I wanted them to be the cutest flower girls ever so it really took a lot for me to give up control. : ) Ben was not in the wedding, so his job for the weekend was to be in charge of Ava and Macy. Obviously, I do not trust him to do their hair, so once again I had to call in the troops. Okay, so here is my shout out to everyone that helped with the girls on Saturday: Ben, his parents, my parents, Aunt Paula, Aunt Di, Lizzie, Joni, Candice, Jon, and Sara. It truly takes a village!! I am sure there are others that helped but I just don't know about it. Because of all of these people (especially Lizzie, Joni, and Candice), they were the cutest flower girls ever.

Lizzie putting lip gloss on the girls

Flower Girls

Striking a pose for the camera

The wedding ceremony was really nice and the reception was beautiful. Ava and Macy did their job and walked down the aisle without any problems. The photographer and videographer were kind of sitting/laying on the ground taking pictures as people walked down the aisle. So when the flower girls came down, Ava stopped walking and just looked at them like, "why are you laying on the ground?" Then, when she figured out they were taking pictures, she posed for a couple of quick shots and then headed down the rest of the aisle to finish up her job. Pretty cute! The girls were at the reception for just a minute. Long enough to get in a couple of dances and raid the candy table that they had set up for favors for the guests. Thankfully, Ben's parents were there to help out on Saturday night and took the girls upstairs to our hotel room and put them to bed and stayed with them so that Ben and I could enjoy the reception.

Here are a few more pictures of the weekend.