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100 books

August 4, 2017

In an effort to keep Maxwell reading this summer, I challenged him to read 100 books. Considering how competitive he is, I knew this would be right up his alley! I really had no idea how long it would take him but it turned out to be the perfect amount of books to try and read in 3 months. There were some days he read a few, some days he read none, but it mostly kept him reading at least one book out loud to us before bed every night. Some of the books were easy for him, some of the books were really hard for him, but he read all 100 himself! I am SO PROUD of him! and I think he’s pretty darn proud of himself too!

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He asked if he could take his list of 100 books to show his new teacher on the first day of school! 🙂

Of course, the challenge also included a big prize at the end. At first he wanted an iPod, but then I hooked him up with Amazon Music on his iPad and he thinks that’s pretty cool. I also gave him some new wristbands (he’s obsessed) which he also thinks are pretty cool.

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He’s thinking he also wants a new Alabama jersey but I have something else up my sleeve…something I know he will think is beyond pretty cool! Tune in next week to find out what I’m going to surprise him with. It’s a BIG, fun surprise and he deserves every bit of it. This kid is the best – smart, kind, responsible, funny, outgoing. Yep, he’s pretty cool!

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I sure do love him and can’t wait to see his face this morning when I tell him the big surprise! 🙂 HAPPY FRIDAY!

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Summer nights

August 3, 2017

Just soaking up the last bit of summer…

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Nothing better than ice cream on a summer night!

Summer camps

July 31, 2017

We’re in the home stretch of summer! Only two weeks left until school starts. While I think we’ll all benefit from a little more routine, it’s really been a great summer – just the right mix free time and activities. I signed the kids up for a few camps and I think all of them were hits. At the beginning of the summer, Maxwell did basketball camp at Samford and Spencer and Samantha did Apple at their school…

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Maxwell liked basketball camp fine. I think it was a little overwhelming for him so we’ll see if we do it again. The others had fun at Apple and Samantha got to do carpool for the first time! 🙂

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The boys then did VBS. I can’t say they loved it…but they were with all of their friends and had plenty of fun.

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Watching their end of the week performance was funny…Spence was up in front doing his thing while Maxwell was almost completely behind the podium by the time it was over! ha!

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Maxwell then did flag football camp which he thought was awesome! I was afraid he was going to melt out there on that field every day but, thanks to some inside gym time and Gatorade, he did just fine.

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Spencer and Samantha did another week at Apple and it was water week so that made it extra fun. Maxwell also got to take a water gun to flag football.

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Finally, just last week, Maxwell did baseball camp at Samford. By far and away his favorite camp this summer! Being out on that hot field didn’t bother him one bit! He LOVED it!

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I loved seeing him all geared up each day. He’s growing up so fast and I just love the kid he’s becoming. I mean, how cool does he look?!

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Mix all of these camps with a few fun trips and the adventures with Mrs. Susan and it adds up to one fantastic summer! Let’s see what all we can pack into these last two weeks!

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Loose Goose!

July 26, 2017

There are some geese that live on a pond sorta, kinda, but not really very close to our house. One day about two weeks ago we had been driving home from Target and saw a bunch of them in the median of the street. Later that day we went outside and one of those geese had made it’s way all the way to our house! So random!

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