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🍎 S E P T E M B E R 🍎 1. Hawaii 20th anniversary 🍎 S E P T E M B E R 🍎 1. Hawaii 20th anniversary trip with my love @jshaddo 2. Spontaneous afternoon imagination play dates are the best. This included a full shade fort under a tree in 104* heat with a picnic for dinner. 3. When the boys insist on getting Mom’s gas for her, you know their dad is training them well. 4. If you ask Mimi to make you a personal pan of peach cobbler for your birthday dessert, you better believe she’ll do it. 🙄😆 5. Fun run day! 6. There’s no pineapple like Hawaiian pineapple 7. Chickens. Wild. In Hawaii. Everywhere. 8. Worst. Plane. Ride. Ever. Grateful to be back home with a chance to hug my babies. Thank you, Jesus. 9. Upward football is back! 10. Cross country is not his favorite, but proud of him for persevering with a good attitude and effort this year. 11. We’ve got ourselves a driver…🙏 12. I spy a cute coach. 13-14. Mini Mountie cross country for the littles. 15. Handsomest door greeter ever.
F O U R T E E N Happy birthday to my first baby! F O U R T E E N Happy birthday to my first baby! You took your sweet time coming into this world (thanks for those 30 hours of labor!), but you’ve made a big splash in our lives since! It’s hard for me to look at you and not see that little baby who loved snuggling next to my heartbeat. Or seeing the 4 year old stuttering sweetie who couldn’t talk as fast as his brain was thinking. Or seeing that 7 year old boy giddy to snuggle and take care of his new twin siblings. Or seeing the 10 year old kid coming into his own hilarious personality. But 14 will be amazing too. And years down the road, I will look back and see you as the 14 year old kid who set huge goals for himself, did almost anything he sat his mind to, who quietly prayed for friends who were heavily burdened on his heart, who found ways to entertain his little brother and sister, and who still found the time to hug mom and dad. ❤️ Happy birthday, Cooper James!
☀️ A U G U S T ☀️ 1. Sometimes they fight like ca ☀️ A U G U S T ☀️ 1. Sometimes they fight like cats and dogs. Sometimes they giggle at each other until their cheeks hurt. 2. Find you a Daddy who will come over and repair your door when you get locked inside your house while the husband is out of town. ❤️ 3. We made it 13.5 years without a kid cutting their hair. She made up for it. lol 4. Giving it his all at his regional swim meet in Minnesota and earned 13th in the mile in the central region for USA swimming. 5. Just a girl in her Sunday best, wearing headphones that don’t work 😆, trying to decide on what drink to get for herself 6-7. Meet the teacher, 1st grade edition 8. Is there anything more serious than checkers between brothers? 9-10. Birthday messes! 11. Only Mrs. Lyndsey would let him recline while she cuts his hair. 🤷🏻‍♀️🙄 @lfroud 12-13. First day of 1st grade and 8th grade 🥹 14. Knox doesn’t waste any space in his wallet. 15. He also loves making love notes. ❤️ 16-17. Family day shopping in Branson 18-19. First Wednesday back for Awana and students! 20. The ultimate birthday cake—no arguments. Thank you to everyone who has taken time to wish me a happy birthday. I much prefer to not have the attention on me, but it feels good to be loved and thought of by so many wonderful people. 42, I’m ready for you!!
🇺🇸 J U L Y 2026 🇺🇸 1. Princess Evelyn 2. Knox, ma 🇺🇸 J U L Y 2026 🇺🇸 1. Princess Evelyn 2. Knox, master entrepreneur, was given glow sticks for free and turned around to sell the for $1 each to other neighborhood kids during the fireworks show… 3. Older kids fireworks entertainment: that light in the sky is a drone, not a star! 4. Fireworks with our church people ❤️ 5. End of an era. Bye bye cozy coupe 😢 6. Double riders! 7. Twin missing front teeth. The third tooth they’ve lost. Each of them within a week of each other. Amazing. #twinning 8-10. 1st grade Bible presentation 11-12. Delta missions trip for Cooper. I want to never forget how chatty he was telling us all the stories and life change he experienced. God is good. 13. Okra flowers always stun me with their beauty. 14. 📸 by an anonymous child of a mundane task. 🥰 15. Farmer Knox’s first cantaloupe!! 16. Who needs one Kona Ice when you could get THREE?? 17. Train ride entertainment for swim siblings 18. Your 13-14 year old state champion in the 1500. Beyond proud of his hard work, determination, and sportsmanship. I’m floored by how fast summer has gone by. It’s been one thing after another all summer. We’ve celebrated with each other and grieved with friends and others around us. I don’t understand it all, but I’m learning to be grateful for the few quiet days—or just moments the Lord has given us as a family among all the busy-ness. For the sparks of joy that squeeze in the middle of sadness. Thank you, Lord, for quiet moments to remind us to be still and soak up your creation and your blessings and to remind us that you are still in control no matter the circumstances.

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