10 YEARS

Happy Anniversary!!! I can't believe it's been 10 years!

Time flies when you're having fun!

The Wedding Cup
We do this on our anniversary every year. My parents have one too, and it's a tradition that I LOVE! I was going to go through all of our old pictures and show us using the wedding cup every year, but this week has been one of the busiest of my life, so no pictures. I did a really cute montage in THIS POST last year, but this year I just didn't have the time. The 3 of us celebrated tonight by going to one of those really fun japanese restaurants where they cook on the hibachi grill, yum! Then we came home and put on our jammies and had family game night. Yep, no fancy clothes for these pictures, just the perfect way to spend the night with my two favorite guys! Happy Anniversary Hon! The next 10 years are going to be even better!
I love you!!!
I wanted to say Happy Birthday to my sister too. She let us share this day with her, thanks sis!

Fall Fun

Boy oh boy... I LOVE this boy so much!!!

We've had a fun fall so far...

We celebrated Aliya's 11th birthday. She got a DS!!!
We carved pumpkins at Nana and Papa's house.

Cute Cousins!

Aliya and Brennen showed off their awesome

Halloween costumes.

This is Ben and a group of his buddies at his school's Halloween Party.

Scott and I had a Halloween party of our own. HA!

I think this is a good blackmail picture! :o)

Halloween was a busy day!!! We carved our pumpkins.

And visited with more cute cousins before

trick-or-treating.

One more picture of Darth Maul!

One little Hot Dog went trick-or-treating with us!

Hope you had a SPOOKY Halloween!!!! OOOOOHHHH!

A Special Day

With Amazing Friends!

Thanks for including us. We love you guys!!!

Wynnie

We kept Wynnie, my parents' puppy, while they were out of town.

She went camping with us and Ben was so excited!

They went on lots of walks together.

Lots!

She was a worn out little puppy.

So we went to watch a movie in the camper and take a little break.

Then it was time for Trick-or-Treating

Wynnie the Weanie

She helped Scott pass out candy.
She had to get bundled up to sit out by the campfire.

Because there was no way she was staying in the camper by herself!

Back home waiting for Mom and Dad! We had a fun time puppy-sitting!

Hi Mamaw Jean

This post is just for you!!!!!!

We haven't been doing too much, just hanging out with our cat Skittles.

Pretty much just been goofing around. We went camping last weekend with this group. And, Ben went on a cool field trip today.

Yep, that's what we've been up to, but your grand daughter might have more to share. ;o)

Thanks for checking in on us! You're the BEST!

Happy October

I still have to catch up on August and September, but until then...

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Inside Joke

Ben has a new friend in his class named Toshi.

He made this for Ben...

and they call it, OR-IJ-AH-ME. ha ha ha!

You know who you are! Love ya!

July

The only way I'm going to be able to catch up is to do each month in review. So, here are some highlights from the month of July that I haven't shown you yet.

We had a lot of fun with Jack.

We went to Kings Island with some of his cousins.

Ben-Brennen-Alex-Amber-Aliya

Aren't they cute!

I took the boys to the top of the tower, they LOVED it!

But I hated it!!! YIKES!

Get 'em Ben!

Smurfberry cones all around.

The boys and Nana

This picture cracks me up!

They couldn't WAIT to ride this!

Yep... they got drenched!

It was a chilly day, and they were the only kids on the slides, but they BEGGED to go to the water park.
Visited cousins Kaitlyn and Brantly in West Virginia
Played some putt putt... Soooo close! Hole in one!!!!!!

We went swimming with these cute girls. Ben's favorite part is the diving board. Whitney's flip! Go Ashley!!! We went to some local festivals. Almost there... and this was his prize! One of our favorite family activities, the Freedom game! That night was "bark in the park" and they had weiner dog races. HA! Ben was begging all summer to try sushi...

HE LOVED IT!!!I picked these from my garden. :o)

The kids spent a lot of time on this...Next up, August!

Another AMAZING Homecoming

I'll start with the most important picture again... The Garland Family of 5!!!

Aidan and Keenan waiting for their little sister.

This picture gets me teary every time!!!
Here's our wild bunch waiting to welcome them home!
Julie, Me, Lola and Amy. We couldn't wait!
Here they are!!!!!!!!!!!! Hello America!
There were a ton of family and friends to greet them.

I love this picture. Ben thought she was the cutest little thing! He kept asking for a hug, and she kept shaking her head no, but then we found out that usually means yes!
Amy and I made this poster for Heather's shower and Bella loved looking at the pictures!

WOW! WOW! WOW! God is AMAZING!!!!!!

We've been waiting to get this picture for too long! FINALLY!Look at that sweet face! She wanted to see herself in the camera, so I HAD to take another picture!!! Then she tried to take a picture of me. SO SWEET!
We are so thankful they are all home together, FOREVER!

3rd Grade

I can't believe Ben started 3rd grade today. He's growing up way too fast! This is such a hard day for us evey year!! He's my best bud and I miss him so much when he's in school all day!

We saw Jack on our way into school. Look how grown up they are!
Ben and his new teacher. We know he is going to have an awesome year with her!
We hope you have the best year in 3rd grade!

And, just to show the difference a year makes, here's my boy on the first day of 2nd grade.

We love you Buster!