November 2013... I might be caught up sometime! :)

Lot 37 progressed... AND sold!  Under contract, that is.  What an amazing blessing!

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This SUPER cool air show happened at our local airport... it.was.awesome!

Family pictures happened! And thanks to Debbie, they were successful!

Joel, Laurie, Gram, Kendall, & Kenszie came to visit for Thanksgiving - it was awesome!  And apparently I was terrible at picture taking....  !   So here is a fun picture of Coop playing w/Uncle Joel :)

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October Recap

Banana pudding festival.... heck yes.  It was a Mom & Mimi outing, with Dad and Pop Pop busy that day.  The boys enjoyed the pony ride, the train, feeding some animals, the carnival games for kids, and meeting Smokey the Bear.  Ironically, we didn't eat any Banana pudding!  The line for the "pudding walk" was crazy-long and it was unusually hot out, so we bailed.  We also went to the White Bluff festival. October is a fun month!

This little dude continued to grow... too fast!

House #2 (lot 37) started!

Pumpkin Carving got serious!  The boys were more interested in playing, so the men ended up cleaning & carving!











We celebrated Mason's 5th Birthday!  We had a 'friend party' planned for the pumpkin patch... but all three kids came down with Hand,Foot, Mouth disease that week and were still contagious... bummer.  Grandparents came though and the boys had a great time together.







The boys dressed up as pirates (surprise!) for Halloween and Cooper was a dragon... circa 2009 Mason's costume. He was not thrilled! Because of a storm that came through, the boys did some trick or treating on Halloween, then went out the next night, then we had a church trunk or treat the following night... yes, it was a 3-day affair!

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!