Destin Vacation

My family reunion was in Destin this year. We spent days at the beach, saw Wicked, played games/hung out at the house, played pickleball, and celebrated Thanksgiving. My kids also parasailed for the first time!

Carter and Matt did a deep sea fishing excursion

Kara generously took some family sunset pictures on the beach.

Bryson's 12th Birthday

Bryson celebrated his 12th birthday with a few friends at Activate--an active gaming experience. They had a lot of fun, and he had a great birthday.

Favorite dinner: kebabs

Favorite dessert: s'mores bars

Favorite snack: cheez-its

Favorite color: bright orange

Favorite activity: listening to books

Favorite book: False Prince or Alex Rider series

Favorite subject: math

Favorite sport: baseball

Varsity Tennis Photo Shoot

 

Family Time

As part of a ward activity, everyone attempted winning at the pie-eating contest. (Austin and I opted out.)

 

We went and saw a community theater production of Beauty and the Beast as a family. We had friends performing as Lumiere and Mrs. Potts. Caleb went with a date!

Austin's Birthday

 Austin's 9th birthday

Favorite dinner: Korean Beef

Favorite color: red

Favorite sport: baseball

Favorite pastime: screens or fishing

Favorite book: Inflatables or Wild Robot

Favorite song: Too Sweet

Favorite season: spring

Favorite fruit: strawberry

Homecoming

 Caleb and his date, Chloe.

Carter went with some friends to the dance, too!

Caleb's Birthday

 This picture sums up Caleb's birthday. He was not present for his special day!

His birthday just happened to be a super busy day for him with school, teaching piano and tennis. He is so driven and works so hard, and Thursdays are his busy day. He didn't even eat his birthday dinner until 9pm at night. I snapped a lonely picture of the banana cream pie I made for him. I don't even think he ate some till the next day!

The start of school went smoothly, though I'm gearing up for a super busy year with all the things we have to do for Caleb's senior year!

He is the team captain for tennis and #1 on the varsity team this year.