I  Dancing through Life with this girl of mine...truly cannot imagine my life without this compassionate, generous, creative, beautiful girl that God oh so blessed me with 12 years ago today. ✿ Happy Happy Birthday Abby Lou!!! ✿

WGR Cotillion

Sunday, May 19th, 2013

Our handsome 8th grade son is getting ready for the Finale Dinner and Dance with Cotillion. 

co•til•lion (kəˈtɪl yən, koʊ-)  

n.

1. a formal ball given esp. for debutantes.

2. any of various dances resembling the quadrille.

3. a formalized dance for a large number of people, in which a head couple leads the others through elaborate figures.

Proud Parents ~ who also happen to be one of the four sets of parents to *chaperone! 

Fortunately, Will knew the Mazzei triplets from Regent...that helped a little when you get placed with 50 kids you don't know!

The Guys

The Whole Group

(sadly, minus Will's buddy Jack who wasn't able to make it)

Parent Chaperones (waiting for better pic)

The Greeting Line
(the young men had to bring walk their young lady in and introduce her to the line of Chaperones...loved this part!)

Mr. Kurt Claxton going over the events of the evening

The dancing begins...

Will with my friend Noel Mazzei's sweet daughter 

#thoughtherhairwassocool ;-)

Greg and I were so impressed with how well the kids danced!

Such fun to watch!!

Well done William! 

Here's to Class of 2017 turning into Gentlemen!!

*Sibling Soiree

It was time to head to our 1st Ever King Family *New Years Eve Bash*

(thanks to Ker for coming up with the rockin' idea!)

My older brother Kevin and his wife Amy opened up their home for our *Sibling Soiree

Favorite moment of the night: learning a dance my older sister Kim made up in college...can you guess the name of it?? :-)

*THE SCARECROW*

(had more fun with this than I care to admit)

Here's the Fab Five with their Fab Spouses...it's so cool that we are all finally at the same stage      (baby sister Kerri got married this past May)

We had a very exciting 2012 with Kerri's long awaited wedding, a couple's trip to Ireland, an unexpected house move, Owen starting Kindergarten, family Disneyworld trip, etc...but somehow I just know that 2013 is going to be even better! Jer 29:11 will continue to unveil itself in our lives...and we welcome God's awesome plan with open arms! 

FanSACstic Fun

The time arrived for our dear friends' 5th Annual 

*PARTY IN DA SAC*

This is a favorite of all attending...especially our lil' tween girlies who so miss being together

ummm...can't u just feel the sincerity in that hug?!

These 3 bring such happiness to my heart...precious, precious girls...

and friends since they were toddlers

Speaking of toddlers, what JOY it brings to see my friend S come with her hands full of toddling darlings!

there are no words for shots like this one...

the DANCIN' begins

and they didn't even need any music to feel the beat!

The Doc and my G

Annual Water Balloon Toss

 Father Daughter Dance

The Momma's

Dancin' Time (with music this time)

BOING!!!! (love this pic)

Mother Son Dance

another make my heart melt moment...

Boys Karaoke

Carter and Will

take a turn with the Mike!

Lauren and Ella

(also friends since babies)

Sadly, the night had to come to an end...as always, it was full of three things we love: 

friends, food & fellowship!

Thank you R's for another year of FanSACstic Fun!