BEST weekend ever!

Sunday these 5 awesome children, and 6 others, were baptized!!!

They were interviewed a few weeks ago to make sure they understood the meaning of baptism.

Amen. Hooray for Jackson!!!

Amen. Yippy for Aaron!!! He was the first to ask to be baptized last spring.

Oh, my sweet baby...his video interview was so hilarious & adorable.

Amen. Yay for Benny!!!

Praying for their futures. I felt so blessed & proud to be their mom.

Friends from school & church came to support the boys. AND Mimi was there too, of course!

Afterwards, each of the kids favorite foods was served in the lobby. Best snacks ever! Then we all (Molskness, Hinton's, Steph & Chloe, Ethan, Nathan, & Mimi) came back to our house to play & have pizza for dinner.

THANK YOU everyone who came to celebrate with us! Rewind to Friday night. Here's our friends who came to the October chili cook off party.

Josh put up these awesome party lights on the deck!

Halfway through the evening we changed locations and went to the neighbors house. The Spence's have a fancy wine cellar in his basement & wanted to share.

AND the boys wanted to play.

We got to see our other child Nathan, who's now in high school. This is a repeat picture from Feb. We also played pool which is always a blast.

Saturday we went bowling with the Hinton family. Wish I got a pic of the adults. Used a 50%+ off groupon!

The kids did great. Benny actually beat ME but they had bumpers.

Afterwards, the Molskness family joined us & we had a left over chili dinner with bonfire.

I don't usually buy school pictures or dress the kids up on picture day. Here's how they turned out... I LOVE this picture of Benny!!!

The always handsome Aaron with some shaggy hair.

Poor Jackson, his least favorite day of the year. HA!

She's so beautiful but has not found her confident smile.

So blessed. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE them!

Special Occassions

Amanda found a 50% off groupon for Tiger World. Not far from home near Concord, NC.

The cheetah trying to bite Benny's feather.

Lazy kangaroo looked like a boxer.

The emu seemed like he might peck if you get too close.

All the girls looking at the one year old tigers. The workers were in the cage petting them. So neat!

Before we left & just before closing we were lucky to see this big brown bear.

Super cute picture of Josh and I. He must've been in a good mood!

Thursday night we met friends in the parking lot before the Zac Brown Band concert to tailgate.

Our handsome man counterparts.

We had lawn seats far from the stage but could still hear the music perfectly.

Fun date night with my man & the perfect occasion to wear my favorite hat!

Family picture from Zachary's birthday party last month.