Fall Family Pictures!

If you know me you know how I love taking family pictures at least once a year! This fall I almost didn't do them. I rallied myself and we had them done...SO THANKFUL I did!! Here are a few of my favs!

Oh hey!

April here, aka busy mom of 5! haha! Once again, I didn't mean to neglect this space but did. On a whim I decided that I want to try reallllly hard to update regularly on here so we shall see. My kids really like to look back at old posts so I'm doing this for them! #momlife

This will be a quick recap of the end of 2019 and then I hope to start weekly updates!

That sentence feels like accountability 😂

Here we go!

This was right after school started! We had made it through the first full week of school and celebrated with date night! Let's talk about how nice it is to have teens who can babysit! YAS!

Just a random cousin sleepover!

IDK what was going on this day but they sure are cute! School picture day, maybe?

Peyton played varsity football again! Since then he and Griffin both made the varsity soccer team so Mom is hoping Peyton doesn't play football anymore. 🙊

I coached Reece's cheer team this year! These girls have my heart!

We purchased Peyton's first car! This was back in the fall, he wasn't 16 until a week ago! We think it's important to get in some learning time before turning 16 so we try to purchase early!

Homecoming festivities!

We lost a member of our community on September 16th. I'm STILL very sad. Officer Cousette and Hubby used to work together. We saw him one week before he was killed. His kids go to school with ours. His celebration of life was very touching for me. I'll never forget it.

Mia turned FIVE!!!! I'm sorry, what?

Josh and I took another trip to Jamaica! We can't get enough and are headed back with the kids for spring break!

Brooks started karate! He has already earned two belts-he is a green belt now!

Griffin turned 17!!!!!

Halloween fun!

Wedding fun!!

Mia had a field trip to the Barnyard!

Cheer awards banquet!

Brooks participated in his very first karate tournament! He took home a silver medal and a bronze medal!

 Celebrating Thanksgiving at school with a little turkey!

Josh and I went to see Bobby Bones and the Raging Idiots! Y'all, I've never laughed so much in my life! So much fun!!!

Thanksgiving!

Celebrated this girl's THIRD gotcha day!

Peyton's Christmas band concert. He's in the jazz band and they are so much fun to watch!

Mom and her girls!

This boy! He LOVES chicken drumsticks! 

We LOVE Santa! He spent so much time with us!

Reece turned 12!! 

That brings us to Christmas!!!! We had the best day!

And now you're caught up! hahaha!

Back to School

Y'all know how I feel about this! ALL of our babies are now in school! Griffin started his 11th grade year-I'm seriously having probs with this. Peyton started his 10th grade year! Reece started her 6th grade year AND middle school! Brooks started 1st grade and Mia started Pre-K! OH and hubby started his 3rd year driving a school bus for our middle and high school! Here they all are on the first day of school!
I never had a bus driver HALF this cool!

 My heart hurts that this time next year he'll be a senior!

 Peyton is loving football! Right now we are deep in the droves of looking for a car for him! He'll be 16 in January!

 Reece is going to rock middle school! I'm so excited for her because they got a brand new school!

 This guy! 1st grade!!! WHAT!

 Baby toot got in to the pre-k program at our elementary school. Brooks is loving having her there and looking out for her!

 Love them more than they will ever know!

 This, my friends, is real life! haha!

Summer Wrap Up!

Sigh. We went back to school last week. Boo. Summer is my very favorite time of year and we made the most of it this year! We spent a ton of time at the beach, which is a happy place for our whole fam! I'm just going to post a ton of pics and narrate as I go! It's blood day for Mia, so I thought I'd catch up!

These two!

 Ice cream time!

 We ate at our fav food truck a ton! Reggae Flava for you local peeps!

 Josh and I got matching tattoos! Eeekks! Our anniversary date in roman numerals!

 We hosted a few blood drives!

 Paw Paw spent several months doing mission work in Alaska! He came home to spend some time with us and we surprised him at the airport! It was FUN!

 Fireworks at the Wharf because on the actual 4th of July we were too lazy to go watch on the beach! haha!

 Lunch date with my oldest boo!

 Another lunch date with my other boo! Yes, I eat Full Moon alot at lunch! Easy to stay on a diet, smoked chicken no bun or sauce!

 More beach time!

 We saw Aladdin at the beach! LOVED IT!

 Worked a little too! haha!

 I jumped again! :)

 Most beautiful view!

 Caught a beach sunset! This was my very favorite day of summer!

 Handstands on the beach!

 6 year check up! He HATED the gown!

 Had a few blood days and an MRI! Got SUPER AWESOME news from the MRI!

 Accurate!

 Mia had a field trip and Reece went with us!

 Mia's last day at Calvary! Y'all for 16 years I have dropped kids off here. Bittersweet for sure!

 Heehee! Sister sammich!

 Ah. How else to wrap up summer than with a finder bender!

 Goodbye summer! We miss you already!