augusta: Jessica's wedding

We headed to Augusta on March 15th to attend Paul's cousin Jessica's wedding.

Augusta was in full bloom and made Montgomery look practically colorless. Even the yellow coat of pollen was thicker and the wind blew yellow clouds of dust! The reason? Among other things, these gorgeous azaleas!

So we took full advantage of the beautiful color! The girl cousins just happened to sit down all together in the same spot for more than 3.2 seconds!

and Millie quickly added John and we had a pretty awesome picture of all 5 wamsted cousins!

of course, it took no time at all for that to move to eating shoes, pouty faces, tongues out and distracted gazes! But John just kept right on smiling! 

I think this one of the big girls is one of my favorites though. they are SO sweet together!

but these two are simply adorable! i love how john's looking up at his big sister!

we grabbed a few pictures of jay and millie's family, but kira was not about to crack a smile. she really wanted to be down playing with addie!

love

and love!

this was the first wedding i've actually attended in i don't know how long. i've been shooting weddings with allison for over a year now, so it was super hard for me to turn off my 2nd shooter mode. but i did, and even managed to stay incognito for a while and get some pictures of our families without getting in anyone's way!

the little girls look like they were having one serious conversation here...over drinks!

and Addie has really taken an interest in little ones recently. I can't wait to share the pictures of her, Cady and Cady's new baby brother Davis! She's smitten with these new little boys!

there was lots of playing and just chilling before the dancing begin.

even time enough to grab a picture of the wamsted men! handsome you say? why yes, i agree!

but all addie wanted to do was dance! so dance we all did! (she's doing the electric slide out away from the group in the first one. check out ms. gail in the background!)

alone...and with others!

but this picture holds a funny story. Audrey Kate was dancing with Gramma and Papa Al. She was seemingly quite content and enjoying herself. Until she looked up at Gramma. Looked up at Papa Al. Rolled her little eyes. Dropped their hands. Turned and walked away. It was like she was saying: I won't have anymore of this silliness! All 3 of us got a good laugh out of it!

of course, there was a ramp off to the side that provided ample opportunities for running races and acting a bit like swinging monkeys!

but when the ribbon/bell shakers were handed out, it got even sillier! it quickly went from uncle jay silliness...

...to all 4 little girls joining in the silliness while daddy sat trying to keep a straight face!

i intentionally didn't take a single picture of the bride and groom (bc our girls wouldn't stand still long enough to be in one!) or cake/cupcakes or food or others dancing or flowers or table details or anything not related to our little ones that i'd normally shoot at a wedding reception; but as you can see from our crew, it was a fun celebration!

And we decided it was time to take everyone home for bed when the little girls laid down on the floor and practically fell asleep! ♥

Congratulations Mike and Jessica!