Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
Back to school!!
The kids headed out yesterday morning for 6th grade…
4th grade…
and 2nd grade! (in purple of course!)
It’s their last first day all together at MBE. I’m going to soak up watching them all walk to school together one last year!
Thankfully they all had a great day and were all smiles when they came home! Thumbs up from all (including Maxwell who was off with his friends at Gilchrist!)
School days, school days!
Today is the day! Back to school! We loved summer and sure are sad to see it go but we all thrive on routine and schedule and I know it will be a great year. Yesterday was a fun and full day! Samantha was at the school early and got to see some friends…
and be a mentor for a new girl in her grade.
Maxwell held court with his minions all day on the corner selling lemonade and cookies! That boy takes advantage of an opportunity!
Everyone got to meet their teacher. It’s totally not cool for a 6th grader to take a picture with his teacher but a 4th grader will still oblige (begrudgingly)….
and a 2nd grader will do it happily!!
As for me? I was PTOing really hard all day! From 7:30 to 2:30! Everything got done and everything went great. More to come on the PTO efforts but needless to say, it would not have gotten done nearly as well had my trusty assistant, GJ, not been in town to help!!
A great day all around and I know today will be the same! Back to school!!
For Christmas, we gave the kids tickets to see the Mavericks play in Dallas and took our trip last weekend. What a great trip! I loved being back in Dallas and the kids had so much fun. We took a direct flight after school on Friday…
and were sitting down to dinner by 8:00! We had dinner at Hudson House and Maxwell even tried an oyster! whoa!!
Samantha turned her nose up at the oysters but ate plenty of chocolate pie!
We stayed at the Highland Dallas right by SMU which worked out great.
The weather was unusually cold and blustery on Saturday but that didn’t bother us. We grabbed breakfast…
drove around Highland Park looking at houses and then headed to Northpark Mall! Shopping all day…just what the boys love! ha!
In all seriousness, it was the best way to spend the day. Everyone did some shopping and came home with new stuff – well, everyone except me! who would have thought that?! We had lunch and an afternoon treat at Neiman Marcus, the boys got to do a VR experience at the movie theater, and Samantha got some cotton candy. It was a win all around!
That night we had dinner at Mesero, a mexican restaurant close to the American Airlines Center. It worked out because we could park in the garage and leave our car there during the game.
The game was really fun. Lots of action and entertainment! The kids loved seeing Luka Doncic play, I loved watching the ManiAACs and the “entertainment squad”, and we all loved seeing Boban!…even if he was injured and couldn’t play.
We didn’t get back to the hotel until after 11 and had an early morning on Sunday because we had to get back to Birmingham for another, much more important, basketball game…
Go MB Magic! Go Mavericks! Such a fun, easy weekend trip that I would love to do again!
While in Naples sitting on the beach, Samantha’s suuuuuper loose front tooth finally came out!! It was so loose it came out while she was drinking a smoothie! ha!
She was pretty happy!!
Later in the week, Maxwell also lost a tooth!
and Samantha lost another one on the bottom!!
What a trip – lots of fun and 3 teeth down!
At school the kids can apply to join the robotics team in 4th grade. Maxwell applied and got in but then the season got cancelled because of Covid. They came back this year stronger than ever though! He and Jack are on a team with two 6th graders, Thomas and Walker. They’ve been working so hard on their robot for weeks and finally had their first robotics competition last night. I had no idea what to expect but it was really cool!
Maxwell had fun seeing some friends too!
They had 4 matches where they put their robot on the field and try to move balls around to earn points. Getting a ball in the basket is big points as is getting your robot to hang. Team BLTC (bacon lettuce tomato and cheese!) got theirs to hang more than once!
I had to come and go to get Spencer and Samantha so missed it when Maxwell drove the robot with Thomas but they got 16 points when it was his turn so that’s great! After the 4 matches, BLTC was in 2nd place! Wow!
The top 8 teams went into the finals and it was intense with everyone watching but they WON!!! Thomas got their robot to hang and the other team on the field (that you compete WITH, not against) made a basket so that was huge! So proud of these boys and so were their teachers!
All of the teams from MBE…
Their big win earned them a bid to compete at the state competition in Auburn in February! Really cool! Guess we just got our President’s Day weekend plans set!
I’m so so proud of these boys!! Go Team BLTC!
Have a great weekend – we sure will! Both boys are playing in the Super Bowl! That’s right, not only does Maxwell win robotics competitions, but he wins at football too! Woohoo!