Hester Happenings

Every year on Mother's day our church holds a dedication service. This year Jeff and I decided to dedicate Naomi. This basically means that we made a vow to God and the church to raise Naomi in the ways of the Lord. We will teach her about God, pray with her, read the Bible with her, bring her to church, etc. Both of our families joined us on this special day! We first started with the service at church: Then some of us went out for brunch at Brigs! Unfortunately it was Mother's day, so we had to wait a while...but it was fun being able to spend time with both Jeff's and my families! As you can see Naomi slept through most of the event, but she's still pretty cute! 

It's that time of year- wedding time! Recently we were invited to two weddings of dear friends of ours. The first wedding was for Chandler and Jason (some of Jeff's friends from college). The wedding ceremony was at Meredith college in the ampitheter. The theme was hot air balloons, which was so neat! I had never seen this idea before!  Naomi got to meet many of our friends for the first time at this wedding! The second wedding we went to was for Rich and Liz (some friends from Jeff's soccer team. The ceremony was outside and the reception was in an old building with exposed brick and wood floors. It was absolutely beautiful! Naomi was again was quite a hit! One fun thing about this wedding was they asked women to wear British style hats since the groom is from England. Congratulations Jason & Chandler and Rich & Liz! 

It's hard to believe that a month has already flown by since Naomi was born! This past month has been a great time that we've spent as a family transitioning to a family of 3. Thankfully I'm healing quite well and don't have much pain from the c-section. We've been working on Naomi's sleep schedule, hopefully she'll sleep a little longer at night soon!  A good friend of ours from Sunday School, Emily, took some newborn pictures of Naomi for us. Here are the adorably cute pictures: This has been a great month of getting to know our little one!