Visiting Old Friends Never Gets Old

I love love love that Mandy and her family only live about 3 hours from us now. We have visited a couple of times since we moved back to NC and I am hoping we can make it a more regular thing in the future. My boys think that her kids are the coolest kids ever and Mandy's house holds a wide variety of furry friends so when we go to their house my kids are basically ready to pack to move in. And with Julia going to school just 30 minutes away it is a perfect weekend getaway for all of us :)

Penny the Pigeon. A surprisingly intriguing pet to have around.

Julia and the bunny.

BIG feelings about leaving.

And then he slept the entire way home.

Hey Day At the WNC Nature Center (2017)

One of our favorite events at the Nature Center every year is Hey Day! For the last one we met up with the Suggs family and had a perfect day :)

September Phone Dump

I will be so sad when he stops loving his Cabbage Patch doll, Boo Boo.

Poor stuffed friends that were left out in a hurricane.

Fun run!

Carver's BFF, Ande, was a little nervous about the Fun Run-- so he held her hand and walked with her for the majority of the laps. I have never been more proud of him.

Carver's Fun Run :)

Carver and his best friend Burkley-- they were in the same class in kindergarten and first grade, but got split up in second grade. They still managed to find each other at most school or grade wide activities.

Love.

A random Chuck E. Cheese outing.

Lunch in the car line.

Family outing to watch the new Lego Ninjago movie. You knowI had to have them wear ninja themed clothes :)

He really loves Winston.

Carson took the essays I was grading and started looking for sight words he recognized. Learning to read was, overall, really fun for him this year.

Puppy went missing for a few days. It was a crisis for the whole family.

We don't know how he got into the above predicament, but Daddy saved the day and found him in the pile of clothes.

Winston went on a 3 hour romp around the neighborhood. I was an anxious mess. He wandered back and didn't seem to feel bad at all about the hours of worry he caused me.

Date night with this boy!

Sushi, of course.

Then we went to PetSmart and found a cat we really wanted to bring home.

And a day date with Carson was next on the list.

Pumpkin painting at Michaels.