Lincoln Turns 13

 This handsome young man just turned 13 years old!  He's such a great kid and I can't believe how grown up he seems all of the sudden.

 Lincoln is kind and tells me he loves me all day long.  I feel so lucky to have this boy in our family.

 Lincoln wanted a "very chocolatey cake" so we did chocolate mud cake with gummy worms on it.  I think it was chocolatey enough :)

Lincoln is the best, I hope this coming year is a wonderful one for him!

Thanksgiving 2017

 This year was a really different Thanksgiving for us.  We invited a family over whom we didn't really know.  We met them through Palmer's football team.  There is a player named Simon Stanton and I used to sit with his mom at football games.  They had said that they were going to have a lonely Thanksgiving, so I invited them over with us.  I didn't get any picture, but thought I'd document the before table that I thought was really cute.

 Simon, his older brother Andrew and their sister Emily all came along with their mom.  We had a great time with them and it was fun for Palmer to get to know Simon better.

We bought a zipline and most of the night the kids spent on that.  It was so fun!

Palmer's Top Golf B-day Party

 Palmer had his birthday party at Top Golf this year.  It was a hard weekend because a lot of people were out of town, but they still had a great time.

 Lunch and golfing and the weather was perfect!  Because he did football team this year, we had to do it after all of the crazy was over, so we didn't have the party until November.  

 Top Golf is so much fun!

 Donuts where you can inject your favorite fillings.  So yummy!

 Love this crazy 14 year old!

Lincoln's Football Banquet

 Lincoln's end of season football banquet was at Stars and Strikes Bowling Alley.  The kids had fun bowling and eating, then we went and did awards and cake.

 Lincoln really liked his team this year.  They were a pretty good bunch of kids.

 Coach Hugh saying nice things about Lincoln.

 A lot of these boys made the middle school football team, so they will get to play again together!