Sunday, October 25, 2026

Family Picture Time!

Loading......family pics! Tis the season for our annual family pictures! When you have the best photographer you collage and post them all! Amy Rhodes truly knows how to  capture it all! Thank you Amy for being absolutely amazing! Love these babies of mine! I'm the lucky one they chose me to be their mama! They are growing up fast! Why does time have to be such a thief! 
Absolutely love the polka dot theme! When I was planning Penny's surprise sweet 16 party this summer I had the thought to do our family pics in polka dots too! I'm so happy I went through with my thought! The polka dots are everything! I love how it all came together!! Yayyy! Absolutely obsessed! 
From oldest to youngest ! Here's my pretty Penny! She turned 16 this year and even more on the go! She's driving and living her best life!
Love my beautiful  Penny! 
My one and only boy!! Cashy boy! He is officially a teenager! He turned 13 over the summer! He is all boy and all personality! He keeps us laughing and moving and shaking! 
Love my handsome Cashy! 
My baby!! How is my baby this big! My perfect precious Piper! She turned 9 this year! She is silly and so fun! She is growing up to be quite the beautiful little young lady! 
Love my pretty Piper!
More family shots! Love all the fun laughing candid ones too! 
and even more family pics! Love this family of  mine! Makes my heart so happy!
Daddy with his babies! He truly is the best daddy ever! Spoils us all! 
Mama with her babies! Love these faces so much! So blessed to be their mama!
Love this man of mine! He makes everything possible for me and our little eternal family! Obsessed with our entire photoshoot! Get ready! Christmas cards in the making!! :)







 

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Happy Hoco #4 For Penny!

Also this week!!! Just one more Hoco for this lucky Penny!!! Another new dress and another amazing new date! This time with Philly!! Philly and Penny have been friends for years! Love that he asked her to for his 1st Hoco!!! So here is Happy Hoco #4 for Penny!! Yayyyy! Philly completely spoiled when he asked her to Hoco! A Sephora bag filled with a bunch of Rhode makeup products! Say what! Every girls dream! Rt! lol She was beyond excited and so grateful! So of course she had to respond with his favorite golf balls the Pro V 1's but added her special little Penny touch!!! She created cute little designs and hand drew on each of his balls! Love it! So creative! He was beyond hyped and couldn't wait to go golfing to use his new hand painted balls! They are just the cutest!
Penny was so excited to go on this Hoco! All of her very best friends out for Hoco all together! Yayyy! To kick off their Hoco the boys made breakfast for the girls Saturday morning! How cute!! Penny even reported that the chocolate chip pancakes were delicious! Yum! Then they headed to a Rock Climbing center! This place must had been for pros because there were no harnesses! Say what! lol But that didn't stop them from having so much fun! Climbing! Falling off! and Laughing! Their arms were sore and were completely exhausted but had an absolute blast!
Loving all the pics! This group of cuties love their digital cameras! :) lol So many fun pics and the day ha just begun!
Then it was a race to get over to my house to make their flower bouquets and boutonnieres! Piper  and I sure had a blast out picking out their flowers and getting everything ready for the flower making! Penny's a pro after all her hocos just from this year! hahaha Then a couple of her besties stayed and got ready out our house together! So fun to hear all the chatter and laughter! Love these beautiful girls! They sure fixed up gorgeous! Wow! Love all their different dresses and styles!
The boys arrived and they were off to picture taking! Dang these boys are sure lucky for these beauties as their dates! hahaha! 
Penny in Polka Dots! This was her favorite dress we found while out shopping for 4 different dresses! lol It is actually Free People! Such a find! It fit her so cute and it was just so adorable on her! She paired it with her favorite light turquoise sky blue heals and got him the matching tie! Doing what she does best!  Pretty Penny Posing for the camera! lol Love her so  much! I actually can't get enough of her! lol
Penny and Philly! Absolutely adorable together! They sure looked good all fancied up! Absolutely loved the tourquoise blue accents in both Philly and Penny! So perfect! 
It was so fun to take their pics! The casual walk! hahaha Walk very slow as I capture the shot! hahaha and fake laugh while your walking! It's actually so freakn good! lol So fun! and such great sports too!
Love all the candid laughing ones too! They truly just have so much fun together
So many amazing pics I had to post them all! haha
The group!! The amazing fun group! These besties truly have the best time together! Every single one of them is so much fun! and none of them get tired of each other! haha They could hang all day every day for days straight and still have the best time! Love it!
More group  shots!! They all looked incredible!
Oh and there's more! hahaha They are just so much fun to take pics of! and keep in mind this group of teens loves their picture taken too! haha Can't you tell!
The camera loves you all! lol
The amazing hoco continues! Off to dinner the go! Grimaldi's to be exact! Pizza! Yum! Love all the pics they took at dinner! Seriously though, they love to take the flicks! lol This group of besties really love to capture every moment! I'm so her for it! I love pictures!  
Then to Pop Stroke for some Mini Golf!!! Penny and Philly took 1st place! Yayyyy! Penny was so  excited how well she kept up with her pro golfer date! Great job Penz! They literally crushed it!  
They are still capturing the night with all their pics! It's the best! After mini golf they headed back to Philly's to chill! Laughing! Dancing! Snapping more flicks! and Making several Tik Toks! lol Never a dull moment with this crew! 
Meanwhile back at Philly's the girls surprised their dates with matching obnoxious tees! It's basically the trend right now! I guess! lol The boys loved it! and can we talk about how cute they are posing with their matching shirts! Penny is living her best life with these amazing friends! Love it for her! Such an adventurous Hoco! Busy all day from sun up to sun down! 
When it was picture time they had a photographer come to take their pics! It was Philly's amazing mama! I'm obsessed with her photography! I had to share all the pics she took! So I tacked them  on the end to enjoy! 
How amazing are these! Love these two so much!
Beautiful group shots!
I  cant' get over these! Jenny is amazing! The colors so vibrant! 
The beautiful girlies! Thanks Jenny for the amazing pictures! Penny had the best day! Such a fun group to spend all day with! She truly has had such an amazing Junior year of Homecomings! All the dresses! All the dates! All the amazing friend groups for each one! She truly lived her best junior year of Hoco's! :) Now that's a wrap for Hoco #4 and a wrap for all the Hoco's this year! lol Lucky Penny living her best junior year Hoco Era! lol 










 

Monday, October 19, 2026

Annual Ence Quail Hunt!

To finish out October wk 3 weekly recap here's what my boys were up to! It was the annual Ence quail hunt! The annual epic boys trip set in motion! My boys worked all week preparing, packing, and getting ready for the Quail Hunt! My boys look forward to this weekend every year! It truly is Cash's highlight for the fall season! Gramps picks him up early from school on Thursday! Honz rushed home to head out of town! Cashy getting older has been really nice for daddy! Cash got a ton of odds and ends things done and ready to pull out of town! Yayyyyy Cashy! Love how responsible he is and his eagerness to work hard to be able to play hard! :) Makes me and daddy so proud! 
All the hiking! All the hunting for the quail! All the shooting!  All the eating! Every last sec is worth every memory made on this annual trip year after year! 
Not very many birds this year at all! Too much rain and weather came through and pretty much washed or scared the birds away! But that didn't stop my favorite boys from having the best time! My boys sure loved catching up with all the family! So many stories! So much laughter! They truly have the best weekend ever together! So proud of my Honz for capturing so many awesome pics! Oh how I love my favorite boys! Another amazing quail hunt in the books for my boys! :)
 

October Wk #3 Fun!

Another wk down and October is already flying by! Here's the weekly recap for October wk 3 fun! Starting off with all the car selfies! U know we love them! this week I caught my girl out driving! Love spotting her on the road! SO fun to see her out living her best life! She makes my heart so happy! In  fact all of my sweet babies do! :)
My Ruby!!! She went to the groomers and got all fancied up! In fact when I picked her up the groomer had bedazzled her face! hahaha They were so excited for me to pick her up! This was the first time she had jems on her face from the groomers! hahaha It was so funny! I got the  giggles! She was so proud too! haha Just look at my precious fur baby's face! She is perfect! Love her so much! She is brings my heart so much joy
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Around the house! Had my besties kids over for dinner while she was out of town! Fixed my neice's braces on the pool table! lol Play dates for Piper! Cashy cooking bacon with his buddy to bulk! haha 
Fun hangs out for Penny this wk! Tuesday Bj's! and a visit to the New York New York to ride the roller coaster! Penny has never done the roller coaster there and had a blast!
Stopped by the new huge In n Out on the strip! Totally awesome! 
and a full on photo shoot when you're on the strip with your besties is always a must! Love these besties so much! They have the best time together! 
It's October so of course we have to hit up the Pumpkin Patches! So fun! We gathered up the girlies besties and headed back over to the carnival pumpkin patch! 
Piper had a blast with her bestie Charlee! Love their friendship together! It's never any drama with these two! They had a blast! Non stop riding! Back to back fun! Piper had the time of her life!
My big girl and her besties had a photo shoot! Love it! I love they bust out the vintage cameras and get to snapping! Creating the perfect pic! They are so fun!
The teens- rode some rides- ate some food -and of course took lots more pics!! hahaha! My favorites!
The week continuew on! It was our school's fall festival! yayyy! My little 90's chick! Cher from Clueless was the costume this year for Piper!! She had so many compliments and  everyone one new who she was! "As If!" lol So fun! 
Piper had the time of her life! Running from game to game! Winning all the candy and toys! She loved seeing all her friends in their costumes too! Piper was living her best fall festival life! :)
Penny came over to the fall festive for a bit then headed over to the Arbor football play off game for stuco! You know she can't miss the excitment! Plus her job for stuco is capturing all the moments! So she was busy at work! Arbor won so we now get to play in the Championship game next Friday! Yayyy! So fun! Us girls kept busy the whole wk! Next post will show you what my boys were up too!