Arkansas, Final Post

This will be my last post of the trip! We flew from Rhode Island to Arkansas Sunday (a week ago) so that we could go to Josh's cousin, Jennifer's wedding in Searcy on Monday. We were so happy to get to meet up with Kim, Adam, and Adalie at the airport in Little Rock that day! It just so happened that Kim's plane got in about 5 minutes after ours did! We quickly caught up and then headed on to Searcy, Arkansas! Josh and I both went to college in Searcy, and it had been almost 2 years since we had been there, so if felt sooo good to be back. We really could not believe that it had been 6 years since we graduated. It seems like it should be more like 2-3 years. Even though it was a short trip, we really enjoyed getting to spend some time with the family there. We stayed in a hotel room with Jo Anna and Hannah, which gave us a little extra time together, even though I couldn't seem to stay awake past 9pm!

Jennifer and Ryan's wedding was so sweet and beautiful! Harding has redone The Heritage building/hotel on campus, and they got married in the wedding chapel in there that overlooks the beautiful campus. We were so happy to get to see these two get married. We think a lot of both of them, and they are such a sweet couple. We are also thrilled that they are going to be living in Dallas, so hopefully we'll get to see them more often!

Josh's 29th birthday was also on Sunday, the day we flew in to Arkansas. We had a celebration for him Friday night in Rhode Island at a nice restaurant called Turtle Soup and did presents afterwards. On his actual birthday, everyone sang Happy Birthday to him at the Rehearsal Dinner and he got to blow out his birthday candles.

Here are some pictures of our weekend there.

James and Bailey practicing walking down the aisle.

At HU, Rehearsal Dinner night

      Jess, Jenn (the beautiful bride), and Hannah 

(who looks so grown up!)

Our little ring bearer

We also got the pleasure of seeing a guy that Josh played football with at Harding, Tank Daniels. Tank played 1 year with Josh at HU and now plays for the New York Giants. He was back at the campus for a fund-raiser, and we got to see him after the wedding. He let James try on his Superbowl ring, which was really neat. Here are some pictures...