Senior Homecoming

  Last Saturday Nick went to his Senior fall homecoming.  Here he is with his friends, McKenzie, Maddie, and JDP.  (I still can't fathom that he is a senior!)

 

 My boy!

 

 The whole group.   

   

  At this point he said he was tired of taking pictures (Oh, cry me a river!) I promptly reminded him that we funded his whole evening and was therefore obligated to politely smile and let his mama take as many pictures as I want.

 

 ....So he got cheesy with me! 

  

 

 The boys...almost men.  sniff sniff....

Fall fun!

 On Saturday, I took the girls to a fall festival at a local garden (which is beautiful!!)  The weather was absolutely perfect and the girls had a ball!!  

Here is Addie decorating a Halloween baggie.

 Avery was a bit too busy eating her candy to decorate...priorities!!!  RIGHT?

 My girls and the headbands they made.

 Avery playing with super big blocks!

 Avery loved playing dress-up..even though the witch hat was a bit too big!!

 Addie....I guess she was thinking?

 Addie was pretending to be an angel.  

 Addie with that big witch hat!

 A shot of the beautiful garden ponds!

 Avery LOVED her mask!  She wore the thing for several hours...no joke!!

 Chillin in the shade!

 Helping water the flowers which is the girls' favorite thing to do!! (thanks to their grandma!)

 My sweethearts!

Here I caught them trying to catch butterflies in the flowers.  VERY cute!  WE LOVED our fun day!  :)

Senior Pictures

 So my first baby boy is no longer a baby...he's a senior.  I can't believe it.  It makes me sad to be frank but I'm also so proud.  He is such a gift from God and he has made us so incredibly proud.  We truly do not deserve a kid a good as he is.  (You know that saying, "Ya reap what you sow."  We really didn't when it came to Nick.  God has been exceedingly gracious to give us such a son. 

Here are some of his senior pictures.  Enjoy.

 The one above here is my VERY favorite!

A HUGE thanks to my sweet sister-in-law for all the phenomenal photos!  We love them!

(If you want her take some pictures for you...let me know!)

Avery turns 3!

Little Miss turned three!!!  And boy!!!! she was SUPER excited!  Here she is posing. I call her little Miss Sass-a-frass!

 Yes.... I have two sweet sassy girls!

 

 So sweet! 

 

 Ok, so I went ahead and threw her a "Doljabi" Korean first birthday party.  I do realize this a tradition for the first birthday...but we missed that.  I debated whether I should, but I really wanted to.  I wanted to see what she chose, see her in her beautiful hanbok, and be able to tell her all about it.  I guess when it was all said and done, I couldn't stand to not be there for this...so we did it at age three.  Unorthodox, I know...but I'm glad I did it!! 

 

(My attempt was super pathetic when one compares it to actual first birthdays which almost mirror wedding receptions!!! They're beautiful!!  See the link!!  AMAZING!)

 

 Her are the object buckets.  Guests would look at the objects, which were on the table, and guess which one she would choose.  They would take a the photo of that object and place it in the bucket.  We counted the guesses to see what people thought.  Most people thought she'd choose the pencil. (Each object indicates something about her future - the pencil meant she'd be a scholar!)

 

 More table photos.

 

 Here we are putting on her hanbok.  It has several layers.  This is the first layer..like a slip.

 

 

Layer two - the skirt

 Layer #3 - the top vest (this has all the embroidery and decoration)

Oh and the cute little matching purse.   This hanbok came from Korea!!

 

  

 

" I'm three!"

 

 

 opening gifts from grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins!!

 

 

 A bunch of cousins!

 

 

I let little Miss pick her caek and she chose the pinkest cake EVER!  She was delighted!!!

 

 

 My baby girl!!

   

 She was SO incredibly delighted! 

 

 She couldn't stop laughing as we all sang happy birthday to her!

 

 Getting ready to blow out the candles!

 

 blowing with ALL her might!!!

 

 

 she got a new baby doll...among many other gifts!!

 

 

 

 Oh...what did she choose??   .....the pencil...I guess she's going to be a scholar!!!  Evidently our family knew her quite well! 

 

 This was the paper ticket family put in the little silver buckets.

 

 Here's that pencil she wanted!!

 

 Some decorations for her special day.

 

 

I typed up an explanation of the "Korean birthdays" so they'd understand the tradition.  Nothing fancy, but it worked!  She loved her birthday.  I'm so glad she's our girl! We are incredibly blessed.