When our family lived in Illinois for the first twelve years of Blake and my marriage, we lived very close to both of our parents.

My Mom started a Sunday evening tradition back then that we are still carrying on today!

Sunday evenings were for family – we would all go to my Mom and Dad’s house for dinner and hang out for the evening.

Even before Kayla got married we prioritized Sunday evenings to be “just us,” and would have snacks for dinner as we spent the evening together.

Now that Kayla is married, we either get together here at Twin Oaks or over at their farm and have snacks and spend the evening together.

It does not always work out when other things come up, but we spend almost every Sunday evening this way!

It has been an irreplaceable tradition when we think of the relationships that are being strengthened and the hearts that are remaining connected because of this purposeful time we spend together!

Well, ok, enough about that – let’s get to the good stuff – photos of our grand babies!!

We LOVE Sunday evenings!!

Whether at the farm –

Or here at Twin Oaks!

Uncles are for making Briar “big!”

You might see that there is always good coffee involved, but we enjoy lattes very much!

You might also notice there is a certain someone who held the Aspen the most.

Ahem.

But can you blame me?!!

David never, ever sits still, and is very fun!

I so enjoy watching him play with the kids.

He was teaching them a new game and it was super loud!

Addie Mae got out some scrapbooks to show Briar some photos from when Addie was Briar’s age.

We would point to a photo and say “who is that?” and Briar would say “THAT’S ME!!”

They look so much alike!!!

Pretty soon it is time to end the evening – but our hearts are filled to overflowing and we are energized and ready to jump into a new week!!

I will say it again – we love Sundays!!

We love being together!!

We love sharing good food and good coffee!!

We love catching up with each other!!

We love squeezing those grand babies!!

I hope our Sunday evening tradition will continue on and on and it will be something that the children and grand children remember fondly.

Can’t wait till Sunday!!