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Rec bball

February 3, 2026

Both Spencer and Maxwell played rec basketball this year and had fun seasons. Neither team won a ton but they put forth good effort. Maxwell’s team was both 8th and 9th…and I didn’t go to many games because that’s just not cool. These pics all came from the team’s funny IG account!

That’s the end of rec basketball for Maxwell which is sad. Next year he gets to be a coach which will be fun!

Spencer’s team didn’t fare much better but he definitely showed his skills out there and put up lots of points all season! He got to be on a team with two of his besties so that made it extra fun.

https://flic.kr/p/2rULBGM

Spencer actually tried out for an AAU team last weekend and made it. I’m not sure how that’s actually going to work with baseball but….we’ll see!

See you tomorrow!

Weekend

January 26, 2026

We sadly didn’t get any wintry mix but we did have fun adventures!

Spencer and some buddies ended up at the boat show fishing for trout out of the tub!

What a catch!

Maxwell and his friends decided they were going to run a “half marathon” on Saturday morning? Ummm…what?! Only a 15 year old boy – who has never run more than 3 miles at a time – would think he can just go run 13 miles with no training. Well…he did it! He and his buddies ran 12.5 miles and I am very impressed!

TBD if he’ll be able to walk this week! ha!

Samantha had…an epic weekend. But we’ll recap that later! Have a great day!

Swing Dancing

January 22, 2026

Spencer learned to swing dance! Just liked Maxwell did in 7th grade, Spencer took a two night swing dancing class at the Junior High. They had a parent performance the second night which Spencer was thrilled about…

but I think he actually liked. He did choose to stay and skip basketball for it soooo..

Proud of this kid! He’s got rhythm!

Ceiling

January 9, 2026

The week before Christmas we had a plumber come out to snake the boys’ shower that has always drained really slowly. After numerous attempts he told us it was really clogged so by the next day we had a hole in our ceiling. Just what you want the week before Christmas!

After taking the pipe out they found – what else? – a pool toy down in the pipe. What in the world?! There was also a huge rag stuffed down there too. No wonder it wasn’t draining.

We then had to get someone out to patch the ceeiling and get it painted asap. Thankfully we found someone and after two days of eating like this…

It was all patched up and good as new just in time for Christmas!

Naples

January 8, 2026

After all the Christmas fun we headed down to Naples for some R&R!

First night – Bricktops! Always a hit.

The first few days we had perfect beach weather!

Next dinner – Chop’s! Everyone enjoyed but I can’t say I’d go back.

Of course Spencer got his Skillets!

More beach – and we were glad they didn’t give our chairs away that we had snagged earlier that morning!

Judge Judy sighting!

Me, Robert and Maxwell joined GJ for the beach exercise class!

But there was plenty of this too…

and more than plenty of Uno and Scrabble!

and way more than plenty of these two fighting….

Dinner at the Beach Club…

The weather then turned very chilly but we still made it to the beach for some walking and football…

and then another beach walk on New Year’s Day – including a starfish!

We then had one final dinner at Campiello!

Then back home to Birmingham – but we can’t wait for our next Naples trip!

It was a great end to a fantastic year. Although, I’m acutely aware of how much I’m going to miss these golden days and ages. I’d do 2025 all over again and I guess that’s the best way to end the year.

We’re ready for 2026!

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