Graham at 3 Months!

Our sweet boy is three months old today! We can't believe it. This month he has discovered his toes and blowing bubbles while he drools. He is kicking so much and he has started trying to hold his bottle. He also smiles back to me when I smile at him and he sings so very well :). I posted some videos of his singing below! I am trying to speak a little French to him but I'm realizing how rusty my vocabulary is these days! Thanks goodness for Tante Crystal :).

I love this little one so very much and can't kiss him enough.

Graham with his second cousin, Luke Alexander Tilton who is 4 months older than Graham.

I'm sure he's going to love riding with Daddy soon enough!

Spending time with Grandmaw Alexander

 

Thank you to Renee and Ally for my Sylvestre blanket!

Thank you to Chris & Bethany for my Graham shirt :)!



I was looking through some old pictures and started comparing Graham to them. I need to get a baby picture of my big brother Bradley but you can see below the similarities between Graham and my little brother, Jeffrey.

Notice that is a helicopter I'm wearing.

This is Amy's  little brother, Jeffrey.

He looks like such a big boy here!

Several videos of Graham's wonderful singing and doing his "Meme" exercises (that's what we call his kicking because his great grandmother Sylvestre did similar exercises):

One Year Together: First Anniversary

Corey and I celebrated our one year wedding anniversary together over a nice dinner at a Brazilian restaurant and walked around uptown Charlotte.

My groom is as handsome as ever!

On our actual anniversary (May 11th), we cut the top of our wedding cake. It was still so pretty after all this time. I got to see details that I missed on our wedding day and had only really enjoyed in pictures. In the pic is looks yellow. It is actually ivory.

The cake on our wedding day:

I also took out my wedding dress just to reminiscence about the special day we had together. I still love my dress with the sparkle and lace detail!!

One of my dress fittings

The veil!

We also watched the video of our wedding to take a moment and just remember how special it was to have so many people we love gathered in the same location. I hope we make this an anniversary tradition!

 It was a sweet weekend celebrating such a big year in our life together as husband and wife.

Facebook even congratulated us :)!

Wedding Reception Decor

The Wedding Reception

Our wedding reception was so fun. We had traditional elements like special dances but we also had things that were specific to Corey & I like the Wishing Tree, Treat Table and Meet the Bridal Party table with pictures and descriptions of each person in our wedding party. The decor was classic black, ivory and of course, sparkly.

Wedding guests enjoyed hors d'oeuvres as Misty and Josh sang and played.

The wedding party and family were announced and then Corey & Amy had their first dance while Home by Scott Alan was sung by Vivian Tong (life long friend of Amy). Half way through the song, we had our parents join in on the dance.

Dinner was then blessed by my dad, Joe. Neil was the host and invited guests to start their dinner.

I got to share a special Deddy Daughter dance with my dad. It stated with the theme song to Miss America because he has always called me that! We then danced to My Girl.

Corey also had a special dance with his mom. She had prayed this song for Corey since he was a baby and asked to have it played while they danced. A very special moment!

We danced the night away with friends from all over. A night I had dreamed about for years. Having so many people that we love in one room together was so priceless.

We had the cake cutting. The cake was amazing enough it needed a post of its own.

 

It was mother's day weekend so we also honored our mothers with a card & brooch and a thank you to our parents. Brooches were used throughout the wedding including on my wedding bouquet :).

Corey and I slipped outside to take this picture. I had seen it done in Manhattan and thought it would be cute to do on little Mooresville Main Street.

This picture is of me with my Paw Gene. It was so special to have him at the wedding. He had been very sick just a month before the wedding and even in hospice care. What a blessing to have both my grandfathers at my wedding!

There was a sparkly photo booth where guests could takes pictures. It was cute to see some of these pop up on facebook just after the wedding.

Campus Outreach Friends

New York friends

Guests were given a very special CD's as their wedding favor. Thanks, Dria for all your hard work and to the artists who donated their work!

Corey and I were sent off with sparklers lit all around us.

There are lots of other pictures of the wedding weekend under "Wedding" on the labels to the left. Enjoy!

*Thank you to Frances Lightcap Photography!