Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...
We had a super fun weekend that included Maxwell’s birthday party! Lots more on that to come but today we have another birthday to celebrate!! It’s Mrs. Susan’s birthday!!
Happy, happy birthday to the one we couldn’t do without! You make our lives so much more organized, so much more FUN, and filled with so much more LOVE! We hope you have a day as wonderful as you!!!!
We love you, Mrs. Susan!!
Well, the home stretch of summer has come and gone. Spencer and Samantha finally start school next week. I think it’s safe to say these kids have LIVED IT UP this summer all thanks to the wonderful Mrs. Susan! They have gone and done just about everything you can possibly go and do in Birmingham! They’ve been to the zoo to ride the pirate train and feed a giraffe, they’ve played on all parks around, and visited every jump place where they slid and bounced their little hearts out – and got carried away! They’ve been to McWane and the Flight Museum and even dressed up like cows for free Chik-fil-A! They’ve been to the library for Roger Day and Bubblemania. They’ve been to the Alabama Theater and the movies for all kinds of entertainment. They swam and played until they wore themselves out!
These kids sure do have it lucky to have the one and only Mrs. Susan as their summer tour guide!!! It’s hard to say goodbye to such a FANTASTIC summer…but I know this school year will be just as good! Thanks for all the awesome fun Mrs. Susan! We LOVE YOU!
I competed in a competition at my gym a few weeks ago and just want to share here because someday I’ll want to remember I could do this stuff! Our team came in 5th place and we were pretty proud! This was my second recent competition and in the one 2 months ago I clean and jerked 150 pounds which I was super proud of!
The competitions are so hard and I always wonder why in the world I’m doing them when I’m in the middle of it – but then I’m always glad I did it when it’s over.
Samantha has been spending some time in the gym lately too – at gymnastics!! She’s been to two classes now and LOVES it! She went to her first class last week and she was so cute in her leotard and “gymnastics hair” that I just about died! It took some convincing to let me put her hair in a ponytail but she finally agreed.
Susan took her and sent me this hilarious pic of Samantha with her teacher before they started…
ha! She was a little unsure but Ms. Robin ended up being great. Susan sent me so many cute videos. She got to flip around, swing from the rings, jump on the trampoline, and run around!
She went for her second time on Wednesday and was even MORE excited since she knew what to expect!
She also let me put her hair in “two ponytails” which basically made my year.
A little pig-tailed girl in a leotard doing gymnastics is basically what I’ve dreamed of my entire life! 💗
She had just as much fun the second time and got to jump in the foam pit, go down the mat slide, get in some floor work, work the obstacle course, and more flipping around!
Here’s to strong girls – young and old! 💪🏻
Samantha’s favorite things right now are definitely her mermaids. She got her first one when our friends Patrick and Liz came to visit a few months ago…and she’s collected several more since! She has one that is The Little Mermaid but she really loves the Barbie mermaids best.
She loves to make them swim and play with their hair. They even get to leave the house with us on occasion!
Mostly she loves to sleep with them! Yes, all of them in the bed with her at once. Elsa and Anna often join the slumber party too. Elsa sings “Let It Go” with the push of a button and it’s pretty funny when we tuck her in at night and then hear that song coming out of her room 30 minutes later! ha!
She’s just the cutest with all of her mermaids and her mermaid pjs too!
Love my sweet girl and her dolls!
ps – Realizing I haven’t mentioned that this awesome girl is totally potty trained now! We did it over the course of a weekend about a month ago and she aced it so fast! Virtually zero accidents for this super star!! Go Baby go!
We had our glasses, we sat outside, we experienced the eclipse! It was pretty cool…short, but cool! At Maxwell’s school they were going to keep the K – 4th graders inside to watch a live stream on tv. I gave him the option of checking out to see it outside with us but he chose to stay at school with his friends.
The max coverage in Birmingham was at 1:31pm. Even though we had glasses for Samantha…
we decided to go on and put her down for a nap and not try to keep her up. I didn’t want the pressure of trying to keep her glasses on! Spence was ready to go though! We actually tied his glasses onto his head so they wouldn’t come off! ha! Susan was good and brought out the Children’s Bible to read the story of how God created day and night. Very fitting!
Let there be light, indeed!
Love those crescent shadows behind Spencer’s head.
Now we can all say we’ve seen an eclipse! Check check!