Nashville, 11-month birthday, and big news!

We have had a very busy last couple of weeks.  Last weekend, we made a trip down to Smyrna, TN, to attend my friend, Jessica Pitt's, wedding.  It was good to see her again and see how happy she and Jonathan are together.  I also got to catch up with a good friend from high school, Amanda Johnston Sims.  It was really great to get to see she and her husband, Tristin, and catch up on all of their family news.  Here's a picture of Cora before the wedding and one of the happy couple walking down the aisle together.

That weekend, my mom happened to have a conference that she was attending in Murfreesboro.  My brother and his family were also in Murfreesboro for his sister-in-law's college graduation.  So, Dad and my sister decided to come on up too, and we all got together.  We met up with Dad, Mom, and Mandy on Saturday and did some shopping and hung out.  Sunday, all the boys got together and went to play disc golf.  While they were gone, the ladies went to hang out at my sister-in-law's parents' house.  They have a swimming pool, so we took advantage of that and spent some time in the water.  It was Cora's first time in a big pool, but she seemed to enjoy it.

Here are Amye and Hayden, having fun playing with the beach ball

Cora isn't sure what to think at first...

The beach ball was fun!

Here Hayden is trying to steal Cora's swim suit.  She doesn't understand why her momma just put her in a diaper and a hat!  :)

Cute baby!

Cora also had her 11-month birthday on the 16th!  I cannot believe that she is so close to being a year old.  I took her picture, as always, and she looks so grown up to me.... :(

Miss Traci was over to watch Cora while I did some dissertation work.  She helped keep Cora in one place while I took her picture and got her to smile for me.  :)

We recently purchased a couple of bigger towels that are really cute, so we had to take Cora's picture in those.  Also, we went swimming again last Thursday with our friends Laura and Anna.  Laura's mom, Barbara, and sister, Jennifer, also joined in the fun!  The pool water was quite cold, so I wasn't sure how Cora was going to do, but she LOVED it!!  She had so much fun watching Anna and also was very entertained by Jennifer.  She also got to eat snacks in the pool, so you can't beat that! 

We had a Sunday School cookout last night, which was a lot of fun!  We brought our outdoor blanket and sat Cora on it.  We discovered that she does not mind the texture of grass at all.  That child was crawling all over the place!!!  Grass, sticks, it didn't matter, she was on her way.  Her little legs and feet were pretty dirty by the time we left.  We forgot to bring our camera, but here are some pictures that I stole from Dana's facebook.  :)

We also have some exciting news from this week!  Jeremy has accepted a position with University Surgical Associates in Chattanooga.  It is going to be really hard for us to leave our friends and our church, but we are so looking forward to being back home!  It is going to be nice to be less than an hour from our families.  We don't have a moving date yet, but it looks like we will probably be heading south in early October.  We should have a date nailed down early this week.  We would appreciate everyone's prayers as we try to sell our house and figure out where we're going to live.  We know that God has a plan and that everything will work out, but it's still easy for us to become overwhelmed.  Dad is coming up this week to help us tidy up the house a bit.  It's going to be a busy month or two!