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Saturday, March 4, 2017

January in Review

Some recap on what we had going on in January:

Dad and Mr. Pate were twinning at church :-)


We got Trolls operation for Christmas. On his turn, Grady just puts the tweezers on the metal to feel it buzz and laughs. Haha!


The lease was finally signed on our new building for church! We are sooo excited about this next step for our church. Many of our people met at the building to see it (there will be renovations so we won't be in for awhile). How cute are these kids?!


And the new building happens to be next door to El Maz... so of course we all went and ate after!


I took the boys to the mall to buy Daddy's birthday present. Shortly after we got our food and I snapped this picture, Griffin had to potty. So I had to take all our food in to the bathroom... gross!


Griffin got a Sciene Experiments kit for Christmas, so we worked on one...



And we have been working on our reading a bunch. It's amazing to me how great he is doing!


Mr.Pate and I went on a date to a Brazilian steakhouse in Nashville where they walk meat around and carve it off at your table. So much food. So delicious. Very expensive. You turn this little thing over to red when you are done, or green if you want them to keep the meet coming. And the grilled pineapple is SO DELICIOUS! We went with a big group of friends and had a ball!


Oh and Kyle's (Jilli's boyfriend) episode of Nashville came on! So fun to see someone you know on TV!!


We had our annual Shogun Birthday Celebration...





We loved on Baby Porter...


And we played "What Ya Mouth"








I will do a separate post on Sweatshirts n S'mores, but I will put this collage where we recreated a picture from a long time ago right here, haha!


Griffin had his 100th day of school...





How cute is he?!!


And he was Bear of the Week!


Jilli had Senior Night... I cannot believe she is graduating High School soon!! Wow!





Watching her dance the senior routine was awesome... and she is coached by the same coach I had all those years ago. How fun?!



It was a busy start to the year, but a good one!

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Tuesday, February 14, 2017

End of December Shenanigans

Here is what we were up to during our last week off for the holidays...

I got to grab coffee with Todd and the work crew while he was in town! And I wore my "I drink coffee like a Gilmore girl" shirt because it was only fitting! Haha





We played with our new basketball goal!


And played games! Yeti in my spaghetti is a new favorite...


Grady transitioned to a toddler bed- which went way better than I expected! He has fallen off several times, but put himself back in bed quickly. Haha!





Had coffee and sushi with some cute dates one morning haha!


We got to go to Drew's birthday party at Jump Air Zone, and my boys had such a blast!

















And there was lots and lots of playing at home!

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New Year's Eve!




This year we spent New Year's Eve at the Bunton's. The past several years we have had someone sick or recovering from surgery, so it was nice to have everyone in good health this year, haha!

We played games, ate lots of yummy food and hung out with some of our favorite people. We ended up with 8 kids 5 & under, and 4 of those were under a year! We like babies in our tribe :-)











We left pretty early, because I didn't want the kids up late and didn't want to be driving late with the crazies out. But it was a great time, and I tried to make Mr.Pate stay up and ring in the new year once we got home... he made it to the ball dropping on Eastern Time. Haha! That's something I guess :-)

Happy New Years!

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Happy Pate Day!

If you know our family well, then you know that Mr.Pate is a twin. But, not only does he share a birthday with his twin, he shares it with his dad AND little brother too!! So it's always a fun time to celebrate because we get to have a good ol time with all the Pate Men! :-)

We had a great time in Louisville. We played some hilarious games, ate some great food, and even played in Papaw's new Total Gym :-), haha!


































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