September

Cooper at 8 months.  Cute as a button.

We visited Cheekwood for the first time.  This place is so cool!  Acres and acres of gardens, this huge mansion, art exhibits, tree houses.  The mansion is connected to Maxwell House coffee... which, it turns out, originated in Nashville.

This cute picture happened at Catfish House :)

More trips to the zoo... we got to see the new Kangaroo encounter!  I make sure we get our moneys worth out of our zoo membership, hehe!

Our annual Gatlinburg trip - this time w/the Footes too!  We had an action-packed super-fun trip.  We went to the aquarium, up the mountain tram, had an afternoon of gokarts/bumper boats/etc, hiked in the smokies, saw a MAMA BEAR AND HER CUBS in the woods (we were in our car :), did the alpine slide, and walked downtown.  It was an epic trip.

We closed on the  house ...!

August Recap

Although I have really slacked here... I really want to make a book of this blog sometime, so here is my attempt at playing catch up!


Lincoln turned 3 Years Old! He requested a pirate party.... then wanted a blue cake that was strawberry inside.  It ended up a little eclectic :) All his grandparents came, including Grandaddy, and my Dad showed up dressed as a pirate,... it was pretty awesome.  It was a really fun party!

Mason started PreSchool!  I was more nervous than he was... of course.  He LOVES preschool.

 This little man turned 7 months old

We went on an unexpected excursion to the beach!  After a really, really busy, crazy year, I desperately wanted/needed a trip to the beach... and Matt consented :)  We went for a long weekend to Panama City, my parents went with us and my Grandmother drove up from central Florida to join us.  IT. WAS. GREAT.

Lincoln Got His Finger Infected Somehow... that was fun.  Luckily it was treated easily with antibiotics!

The house went under contract on the day of final inspection!  WHAT a blessing!  We had three people attempt offers on it in 3 days... it was really, really exciting and really, really relieving!

July

...House continued (surprise! :)

Fourth of July fun!  The kids got REALLY excited about the fireworks! Well...Cooper slept :)

Mmmmm, summer berries: raided from my parents' garden

This baby kept growing (too fast!)

Go kart fun w/Mimi and Pop Pop, cousin's birthday parties, the park, the zoo, bowling... lots of fun!

A visit from Aunt Becky!

Pioneer Day fun :)  (you know, that Holiday that the average Tennessean has no idea exists..., but Utah treats it as a federal holiday!)

Cooper started sitting up, which means I could start taking fun group photos like this!

June Happenins (photo dump)

This (ridiculously adorable) guy kept growing...

Work on the house continued... (surprise! :)

Fathers Day!

We had FUN!  Swimming, go karts, teeball, playing outside, a magician at the library, railroad museum tour, ,more swimming, I went to the NKOTB/98 Degrees/Boyz II Men concert (WOOHOO!), etc etc etc!

May

A really brief, poor recap of May.  haha  Oh mercy...

Work on the house continued...

This man turned 4 months:

We celebrated 8 YEARS!  ....and forgot to ask someone to take a picture for us!

It WARMED up!  Woohoo!  That means playing in water, strawberry picking, trips to the zoo, duck feeding, ya know! ... here are some snapshots!

 (haha! :]   )

Lost...

...I suppose I disappeared into the craziness of motherhood and summertime!  Soooo busy!

I'll be compiling a great monthly recap, in the meanwhile, enjoy this video from the Pioneer Day (July 24th) party at church....

(Lincoln is in the orange bball hat)

March/April (huge) Photo-dump!

Well, how about that for time lapse??  Since Matt spoiled me and surprised me with my first tablet for Valentines, I have become terrible about getting on our desktop downstairs - which means the blog is getting neglected.  Whoops!

Some of March....

Matt's construction company, Cynergy Construction, bought two lots and prepped to start building !  

 My parent's German Shepherd had her puppies (accidental litter w/the neighbors lab) - they are ADORABLE and have been really fun to have around (they'll all be to their new homes in the next week or so).

This kid potty trained... and is mostly doing well :)

We took a weekend jaunt to Memphis and saw the Peabody ducks, ate some AMAZING fried chicken, had a crazy night in the hotel (hello, Lincoln, please learn how to sleep when you're overtired), and had a super fun day at their really great zoo.

Easter!  We had a great Easter w/family and WAY too much candy.  And this crazy belated-birthday cake for my Mom:

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This cute picture happened (Matt's Mom's Dad):

Some of April's happenings:

I had a birthday :) No picture... in part because I also caught a wretched cold the same week (and 4 days before that, had a stomach virus from you- know -where).  Ah well!

I discovered the joy of pressure washing (yes, it warrants being mentioned :)  :

The house building started!:

This guy turned 3 months!!  (more on him in the next post...)

Played outside, went to the zoo, etc etc etc - loving some warm weather!

This guy started Tball! What fun!  He loves it.

We flew kites on the-windiest-day-EVER.



And I started playing with my friends' DSLR camera she loaned me for a few weeks: