Willy Christmas 2024

I had a huge detailed post drafted up and blogger crashed and deleted it so I’m going to do a photo dump here and hope the app recovers the OG post with my journaling. If not, at least here are some pics! 

Willy New Year’s Eve

Willie’s were all over this NYE. Aaron and I took the triplets over to my cousin Mattie’s for a little party and early countdown with cousins, then came home and watched a movie between littles going to bed and the first round of teens pulling up.  

Soren went to Trace Bakers for games, Corbin went up a party at Logan Buttles, then the dance in Springdale for a bit, and then rolled up in the back of Josh Tice’s pickup with 9 boys to grab towels, Soren, and a lighter before rushing out the door in a hurry to make it to the lake by midnight. I guess Caleb lost a bet at a card game and was supposed to skinny dip as the consequence, but in solidarity, the boys said they would all do a polar plunge at midnight instead. They did not. Haha. At 11:59 they pulled over in a parking lot and lit a bunch of fireworks instead. 

This was the only photo they sent me 😳. 

They returned home post shenanigans and one friend had permission to sleep over (we don’t usually do sleepovers) so he could stay late but wouldn’t be out driving home on NYE. I kicked the last 3 stragglers out at 1:30 and I think they went to another friend’s house and they all returned at 7am to go to Dons for breakfast and then play basketball. 


Quincy had planned on popping out to the dance, but got an invite to a fiesta at Henson’s. They ate, destroyed a piñata, raced around on crazy carts, and sang along to some songs Henson and Zshef learned on guitar and bass. They joke that Quincy is the backup girl in their fake band, which just leveled up now that H has a bass. After dinner they all went over to Gigi and Indy Grow’s party where they decided to do a polar plunge at midnight. They made it to wi door lake just in time and jumped in! Crazy!  They took their crazy to Waffle House until 2am and then over to Gavin Flemming’s house to start a movie, but Q left “early” and came home just after 3. They sure know how to have fun and Quincy is super grateful for these friendships. 

Gavin F, Henson B, Luke C, Indy G, Zack S, Gigi G, Ella D, Q, and Savannah H 

Soren’s First Orchestra Concert

Soren, Lucas A, Trace B, Sebastian, and Titus G. So fun when friends dominate the cello section! 

Soren is principal cellist and even though there aren’t really chairs or chair tests, he takes his role as section leader seriously. 

Soren has been staying after school a couple times a week to work on a solo and small ensemble pieces for their concert. 

They played the traditional twinkle variation and a few other pieces and it was adorable. Soren has worked hard and was invited to audition for honors orchestra. He is up against 7th and 8th graders so he might not get a spot this year, but it was a good experience to learn new challenging music and submit an audition. video. Yay orchestra! 

Happy 10th Birthday Sloane!

Sloane Winifred is 10! We love our smart, quirky, opinionated, sensitive, creative, and funny little bestie! 

I made a cute video for Instagram (with a Dayglow song, of course) on her bday and she has watched it a million times. 


Sloane woke up with an agenda on her birthday. She went with Esme and Aaron to pick up donuts and kolashes for breakfast, then Swig, shopping, and lunch with Mom and Quincy. She told us weeks ago she wanted to go pick out her presents, this year. We hit swig and she got a soda and bday cookie, then TJ Maxx, Hobby Lobby, and Old Navy. We managed to pull off a little suprise for her when Quincy needed to “go make a call” and went back to the stores to purchase things she’d liked and hide them in the trunk. She got an “s” necklace, a pizza shaped warmie (lavender scented weighted stuffie that has a heating pouch inside), two outfits (soft and cozy loungewear for Sloane, of course), a sushi theme sticker stacker craft, and a birthday girl headband that she saw two weeks ago and was her sole reason for wanting to go to old navy. 

She chose Red Robin for lunch. 

Her favorite gift was a Bitzy from Grammie Lynn. It’s a digital pet in a box. Basically a flashing light hologram thing that is pretty incredible and I can’t really wrap my brain around how cool technology is. She  named it Jarom and she “feeds” it and plays little games with it and it has toys and outfits and pets of its own. 

Sloane had a birthday party and her requested theme was “fun” lol. We delivered the fun! Chloe W, Piper G, Flora G, Esme, and Gigi V came over and played the new Just Dance game on the switch, then decorated sugar cookies, and then I loaded all the girls into the fun bus and took them to Taco Bell haha. I was already making cookies, so for bday cake Quincy and I stopped by Rick’s Bakery to see Baylee G and I picked up some petit fours for each little friend. 

Sloane loved the attention from her bday headband until everyone sang to her in Taco Bell, and she blew out her candles mid song to get us to stop. We did not stop and think she secretly enjoyed that attention as well.  

Happy Birthday, Sloanie!!  We love you!