The Graff Family Blog: 9-31

August 2026

Videos 😊

we had some epic rain storms

she wanted to see if the sled would slide on grass

playing with friends at a different friends house lol

we like to read books and watch the rain fall

camping w/ cousins

singing in the car

got a new bed for mckinley

she can blow a bubble and then catch it

Click the link below to hear the song dallin had ai make for this moment

https://suno.com/s/0xwvtiTqovziUQEp

Cooper mowing the grass all by himself!!! It was adorable. Dallin and I were both amazed and emotional and proud and 100 other emotions at the same time watching him. We just cant believe how fast he's growing up and how much he's learning and how cool he is. He was so excited and proud of himself too he said "look! I'm good at this! I'm doing it!" it was so cute i wanted to bottle that moment and keep it forever. I don't think me writing about it right now does it justice at all. I feel like most of the moments that hit me hardest arent the big milestones that most people weep at. For me it's these every day small things that will randomly just make me so emotional and I'm sitting there trying to tell myself to hold it together because this is a weird thing to cry about. lol

They love playing with smith and kamryn so much its so cute how close they are as friends

one morning i came home from the gym to find them riding scooters in the driveway and dallin was on a work call and mckinley wasn't wearing a shirt just the jacket that wasn't zipped up lol so i said did dad say you could be out here by yourself? and cooper paused for a long time and they looked at each other in a guilty way and then he said "ya..... but don't tell him." lol

for school they asked her to draw a self portrait and answer these questions. So she drew this.... 😂😳😅 and said "those are my boobies. But see its okay because the pink square is my shirt and its on over them so they're covered." lol so i said awesome can you draw yourself again? 😂

and I taped it on top . and she wanted to write her own name.

Apple Picking!! 🤩

we had so much fun! mckinley is in that annoying phase of growing out your bangs... but she also hates it when i do her hair with a passion

it was so cool . they were both talking about how fun it was on the drive home (despite coopers face in this pic i think he just didnt want to take a picture)

they made the best donuts ive ever. had

early morning walking pic with mariah

we got catepillars and it has been so fun to watch them grow!!! amazing! we are all so into it

after playing in the rain together they found a worm and named it "peenie."

dallin ran in the rain with her and jumped in the puddle lol i did not.

it doesn't get any cuter than that. the car is in the driveway because cooper wanted to wash winston himself. So we all pitched in and had a fun time washing the car and then it promptly rained lol so i think we made that happen ourselves