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20 years

October 5, 2015

Happy Monday! This past weekend we headed to Montgomery for Robert’s 20th High School reunion. Robert got to see some old friends, we both did a little birthday celebrating, and we all got to meet the newest member of the family! Robert’s sister, Mary Beth, had her baby on September 27th so we got to spend some time watching football with 6 day old Margaret Louisa Walls. What a treat!

margaret

The boys thought she was pretty neat.

margaret

She kept making little noises and Spencey said, “Baby Mah-get’s squeaking!” 😉

margaret

Baby Mantha wasn’t too pleased when I was holding Margaret. Jealous much?

baby margaret

We’re so glad she’s here safe and sound and happy to have another girl in the family born 8 months to the day after Samantha!

margaret

We also had some cake to celebrate 37 and 39! woohoo!

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For the reunion, Robert and I stopped by the high school football game on Friday night. It was pretty cold with drizzly rain but still fun for Robert to see familiar faces and allow us both to wax nostalgic about the good ole days of Friday night lights, football, and cheerleading! An after party at Francie’s provided plenty of stories of days gone by and maybe even an embarrassing yet hilarious picture or two. On Saturday we went to the cocktail party at the school and enjoyed visiting with everyone.

20 year reunion

reunion

It really was a good weekend with several fun things packed in. You know…20 years out of high school (well, 18 for me!) sure doesn’t look or feel as old as I used to think it would. Cheers!

Birthday!!!

October 4, 2015

Woohoo!! It’s Robert’s Birthday!!!

robert bday

dad bday

robert bday

We sure do love Dad! He’s the best soccer coach, chess master, bath giver, football teacher, and tickler we could ask for. Here’s to a wonderful year of adventure and fun ahead!

dad bday

39 and holding strong!!! 🙂

check mate

October 1, 2015

Maxwell is taking chess up at school on Monday mornings this year. He’s only had a few classes but is already loving it! He even got his own chess set and t-shirt to wear to every class. Our last two nights around here have looked like this…

chess

and this…

chess

Smarty pants! I’m so glad Robert knows how to play because I have no idea. Checkers is more my speed! You gotta watch out for Spence though…last night we found the two extra queens stuck in his garbage truck. 😉

Soccer Star!

September 30, 2015

I sadly had to miss Maxwell’s first soccer game, but nothing was going to keep me from his second game! On Sunday afternoon we headed out to the drizzly, muggy soccer field with the whole fam in tow! Maxwell and Coach Brown started working on some drills…

soccer game 2

while I did my best to entertain Samantha and Spencey on the sidelines! Not the easiest task considering Spencey really wanted to be out on the field with Maxwell. We made it thanks to plenty of gummies! ha!

spence soccer

Baby Mantha was a good cheerleader. I had the go-pod for her…

go pod soccer

But she only lasted in that about 5 minutes. Luckily I took the carrier with me so she was happy to hang out there and get a good view of the game.

soccer

It got most interesting when Spencey decided he also needed to be held at the same time for the last quarter of the game. Oh my aching back! But, it was all worth it to see Maxwell hustling out on that field!

soccer