Cotillion!! Class #1!

🕺🕺🕺'Tis the season again!!!🕺🕺🕺  

We're soooo excited! 

 (👇Can you tell?!😂)  For real, we ARE excited! 

Andrew is not yet old enough, but he definitely wanted in on the action!!

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SO proud of these guys; learning to be gentlemen!!  

 

Mom and little buddy sat on the sidelines and cheered...😉

 

A new family took over the program and we are so grateful!  They are wonderful.  

 

There are several classes throughout the month and we happened to choose the smallest one...it made for GREAT personal attention!  It was actually like a private etiquette lesson 💥👏

 

My little buddy was even invited to snack time! 

 

🕺🕺 James rocked the "Electric Slide" and had such a fun evening!! 🕺🕺

More life, life, life!!

My kitchen helper is awesome these days! 

 🔥🚒HOW COOL?! Andrew was studying Firefighter's in school last week! 🔥🚒

💞🧑‍🚒He got to write a VERY SPECIAL and personal sentence!!💞🧑‍🚒

I loved the picture he drew of his brother!!

 

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👇This man is wild about our accidental oat-bar recipe!! 

He makes it for his big bro to take to work!!

Baking for BRO is serious business...💙😋

 

 

Our birthdays came...and did not go by unnoticed...😂😂

💞💝 Goodness this man takes good care of me!!💞💝

👇This was a precious moment...Joshua and Dad making healthcare and benefits decisions! 💥💪😎Sooo grown up!!

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And where-oh-where has the lovely madame been?!?!

Studying! Dancing! Singing! Playing violin! Working! 

OH MY!!!  

We too only catch glimpses of her between school, work, friends, and all the fun of college life!! 

She is, of course, thriving at Disney dances and classes and work and choir and orchestra and everything in-between...  

😂😍If you see her, tell her to send us pictures!!😂😍 

 

  

 

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Big man stuff!

 Life has been pretty manly around here lately!  

Mom is outnumbered with Natalie gone most days 😂

Big man activities = Little man dreams:

Big truck rides with Daddy! 

And shopping! 😁

 

Fall = Firewood chopping day!  

We are so thankful for all of our hunters that keep us warm all winter with firewood! 

 

😁😎 Mmmm...new toys👇for big boys?!  😁😎

😁😎Yes...the boys get bigger and so do the toys!😁😎

All the men were very excited for Daddy's new toy!! 

 

Drilling holes in our yard was the business last week...updates to come on what that will be...

 

Someone got caught napping on the job...😂😂

Bury-A-Bro!!

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A little fun riding in-between!

New woodshed doors!

Graciously painted by J!

Helping a friend learn to service his own machine:

Clean up + Target practice = Man-building-day!  

More firewood chopping for the season! 

Can you tell who's the boss 'round here?! 😂 

👇Is our Property Manager, or, our five-year-old👇 who is too big for his britches?! 

(Thankfully everyone loves our boys, and our boys actually do know their place and are respectful at ALL TIMES...but this does not stop Andrew from thinking he is five going on twenty-five 😂😂)

We had a dead tree looming over our shed, so Daddy had to take it down and the boys cleaned it up! 

Gooooo team!!!

KINGS Dominion...next gen!!

Daddy took another adventuresome group to Kings Dominion this year...albeit small, they had a blast!! 

James and his best bud got to ride every. single. ride. 

The coasters were a hit! 

But somehow the Bumper Cars were James's favorite...😂

("I got to smash into things, Mom!") 

The merry-go-round is always fun! 

Lunch break!!

Photo for Andrew with his favorite "Noopy Puppy"...💞

 

 

💦💦 And an afternoon spent on all the wet-n-splashy rides!!💦💦

(Hence no more photos due to said wet-n-splashiness😁) 

 What a fun day!! 

Chipotle for the win and a long sleepy ride home!! 

 

🥳🥳 Thanks to the world's best Daddy for yet more FUN that he always brings!!🥳🥳