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!

Halloween 2018

 For Halloween 2018 Josh and I didn't have too much time to put together a costume.  WE were Mary Poppins and Bert.

 Middle school limits the costumes that these boys were willing to be.  They chose to be Atlanta Hawks basketball players, one live, one dead.  This year Palmer went to a party instead of trick or treating.  Growing up.

 Draco Malfoy

 McKay was excited to be an Indian Chief, since his new school mascot are the chiefs.  

Family photo at our ward trunk or treat at Hunter's Christmas Tree Farm.  It was a great Halloween!

 I love to see what my seminary kids dress up as for Halloween.  Here are Savannah and Mattie as M&Ms.  They are the cutest!

 Jackson As Rex from Napolean Dynamite.  So funny!

 McKay and Hunter went trick or treating with Grayson and Christian Peterson, and Aden and Drew Baxter.  They got so many full sized candy bars!

 Lincoln went trick or treating with his buddy Ryan (who he goes with every year.  It's tradition :)

Halloween Sugar Cookies

 I failed on taking pictures this year.  This is all I got of us decorating Halloween sugar cookies.  It was fun and we made some pretty cool looking cookies!

Viper Football Banquet

Palmer's football banquet was catered by Jim N Nick's which is our favorite place for BBQ.  It was so yummy!

 What a wonderful year it was for Palmer on this football team.  We enjoyed it too.  It was a great experience for all of us.

 This coach is amazing.  He helps the boys to become more than just football players.

 Palmer's buddy on the football team Logan Fox.  He tore his ACL during one of the beginning games.  Poor kid.

 Palmer received an award for good grades in sports.

 They got these rocks to symbolize their "6th championship rock", beanies and a bag full of goodies.  It was a fun year!

Hunter's Last Primary Program

I love the primary program and will miss seeing Hunter up there.  This was his last one!  Thank goodness I still have McKay singing to me!