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A special Saturday post for a very special day! Daddo’s birthday!!!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday, dear Daddo!
Happy Birthday to you!
We can’t wait to see you next week and give you a big hug!
Hope it’s a GREAT birthday! We love you!
Happy Monday! Hope everyone is feeling great (and not too stuffed!) after a long holiday weekend. We thoroughly enjoyed our holiday and had a great Thanksgiving day down in Montgomery. Jenny nicely offered to host and cooked up a big feast but I did take the desserts. I made a pumpkin pie (which I love but Robert thinks is nothing short of a waste of a pie) and a pecan pie. Both were really good (if I do say so myself!) thanks in part to my kitchen helper…
For my memory, I branched out from my mom’s tried and true shortening pie crust recipe and went with an all butter crust from Smitten Kitchen. Turned out great!
That morning, I actually got to pick out Maxwell’s clothes and had him looking cute and dressed just like Spencey!
Thanksgiving twinkies! 🙂
We got down to Montgomery around noon and Ronnie had ordered this cardboard rocket ship for the kids to color all day – total genius move.
The boys especially loved it! We had a fun day all around watching Ronnie fry the turkey…
feeding the kids an early “feast” of their own…
and then letting them have one of the turkey cookies I made along with the pies! gobble gobble!
It was a beautiful (albeit chilly!) day and the cousins had a blast running around outside on the golf course.
In fact, we all enjoyed the sunshine that day!
The meal was fantastic (thank you Jenny!)…
and we enjoyed the outdoors just as much after the sun went down…especially with the fun(ny) head lamps and glow sticks for the kids!
Let me tell you, you haven’t laughed until you’ve seen Spencer running around with a headlamp on! ha!
Overall, it was a perfect day that made me realize how thankful I am for my entire extended family and definitely for this guy…
and these little turkeys!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Ok, finally getting around to soccer game 4. Considering soccer game 5 was over a week ago, I’m a little behind! That’s ok though…it was a nice, cool afternoon and good day at the soccer field!
Unfortunately, our team hasn’t been the most committed this year and we only had 4 players at the game that day. But, it worked fine to play a game of 3 on 3.
Maxwell hit the ground running as he’s been doing all season…
He even got in there a time or two and played some good defense!
I enjoyed this game a lot because I had a helper to wrangle Spencey!
Spencer was loving it!
Not sure I can say the same for a beat up, drooled on GJ! 🙂
I’m pretty sure she’d tell you she loved it though.
After a Coach Robert pep talk at halftime…
The team was geared up to take the game in the second half! ha!
Some serious soccer players here…
But, they had fun and that’s all that counts…
Well, that and scoring 5 goals! 🙂
Way to go Maxwell! High fives all around!
Go blue!
First, happy birthday to Amy today! Hope it’s a great one with your cute family!
Second, As I mentioned yesterday, we had a small little family lunch to celebrate Spencer’s birthday. Even though our only guests were GJ, Daddo, Lulu and Grandaddy, I still had to make it look festive!
Our birthday boy was a little bit cranky at the beginning…
But, as they say, it was his party and…you know.
He cheered up though and we had a great time…
He got some awesome presents including a train engineer’s outfit and Thomas music book from Lulu, Paw Patrol toys from GJ, a monkey rain coat from Susu and a car ramp from me and Robert.
Robert and GJ got to put the car ramp together with plenty of helpers! 🙂
Once it was all assembled, Spencer was a happy camper.
It was then time for lunch and cookie cake! YUM! Spencey did a great job blowing out his candles!
It was a fun day for a special 2 year old!
Happy Birthday Spencey!
Make it a great weekend!
The busy birthday weekend fun continued…
Thanks to GJ and Daddo, we got to celebrate Robert’s birthday on Saturday with a trip to Tuscaloosa to see AL play the Aggies while the boys stayed home. It was a beautiful day and Ronnie hooked us up with tickets in the President’s Box…not too shabby at all! Thanks Ronnie!
Back in Bham, the boys were living it up taking full advantage of the day with grandparents – I think there were cookies AND ice cream! 🙂
Thanks so much GJ! We love you and the boys do too!
Roll Tide!