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Our busy weekend

Friday started our busy weekend with a busy day. I had a doctor’s appointment in the morning and then we ran some errands and ate at Chick-fil-A. In the afternoon Reese had ballet as usual but it was parent watch day. I decided to just keep Sam with me so we made it parent-brother watch day. They showed us some of their stretches and other fun things they do in class.

After stretching they showed us a preview of their recital dance. Reese was excited to have us in there with her.

Friday night we had pizza and a movie night. We decided to watch Tinkerbell…again. We were going to watch a new movie but then couldn’t find it so Tink it was. One day Sam is going to start giving us a hard time about the girly movies we always have to watch. For now, he doesn’t mind or care much.

Saturday morning was soccer day for Reese. Before soccer they had pictures which will turn out super cute.

This is Reese’s team and coaches…picture taken over the photographers shoulder.

This week I took Reese to Target to get some soccer shorts but she saw this athletic skirt and had to have it! It is perfectly her.

This week the coach took the three tallest girls and showed them some goalie tips. Reese, of course, fell in to this category and did pretty well in the goal.

This is from during the game and she had just stopped the ball and thrown it back out for her to team to get. This little red team had two girls on it that were really good. They each scored a goal on Reese while she was in goal but it didn’t stop her. She said she enjoyed it.

During the second game we didn’t get any pictures but Reese was on fire in that game. It took a little while but she finally scored a goal. After scoring that first goal, everything kind of clicked and she scored four more! She had the biggest grin on her face the whole game. She ran more than she probably has at all in her life. It was a lot of fun watching her and she had a blast!

After the game we went to Bar-B-Cutie with Aunt Becky and our neighbors. And then that evening we had our neighbors over to cookout. Since it was so warm we pulled out the pool. Even though the water was freezing the kids had a lot of fun.

The girls had fun swinging all by themselves on the swing set.

And they all played very well together. It was a great evening with our friends.

Today after church we headed to Decatur to celebrate Connor’s birthday. It was a little jumpy place and the kids had fun running around and playing. I forgot my camera so I didn’t get any pictures. Now we are just relaxing for a little while before bed time and getting ready for the week ahead.

Words heard here...

If you were to spend any length of time around our house, you would here these phrases over and over again.

Sam: "I do it all by me self!"

Reese: "That's not fair!"

Me: "You guys are making me bananas!"


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Ballet Costume

The theme for Reese's ballet recital this year is American Girl Dolls. Here is a picture of her costume and also a drawing of herself wearing the costume.







Pretty good, huh?

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She Shoots, She Scores!

Reese had her first soccer game today. She is playing for the Y this year. During the first thirty minutes they have practice and then the last thirty minutes they play two fifteen minute games. Reese’s friend from the neighborhood, Emma, is on her team.

When the coach’s wife was handing out shirts she asked if anyone had a number preference. Reese immediately yelled out ten so that is what she got. They are “Team Portugal”.

The coach was a little late this morning because he ran a 10K so another mom ran the practice for a little while. We ended up knowing her through a mutual friend.

Reese had a huge grin on her face the whole time and kept waving to us or giving us a thumbs up.

It took a little while for the kids to get going during the game and they had no concept of boundaries. It was really funny because if there was not a coach close to them they would continue running after the ball over several fields.

Finally Reese was able to get her foot on the ball. She started dribbling the ball (towards the correct goal I might add), followed it up and took a shot on goal. She SCORED! We were so happy and excited for her.

She also stood in the goal as the goalie for a second or two. I really don’t remember her standing here longer than for this picture.

It was such a fun and cute time this morning. Reese really enjoyed herself. All day she has said, “Since I scored a goal today, can I …?”.

I can’t wait to see how the rest of the season goes. I hope she enjoys it just as much as she did today.

Like Father, Like Son

I meant to do this post a while back. Lance’s sister, Kathy, found this picture of the two of them with Santa back in 1979. Lance was just over a year old when it was taken.

After posting that picture on Facebook, she added this picture of Reese and Sam. Sam is just over two years old.

How funny is that?? Pure terror in both of their sweet faces while their big sisters have a huge grin. Oh it cracks me up!

Just Dance!

When the kids spent the weekend at my parents house they played Just Dance over and over and over. We decided to buy Just Dance Kids for them when we got home as a reward for being good at “Gigi and Gran’s”.

It is an awesome game! They love playing it. And have now played it over and over and over.

Reese has several favorite songs. Sam’s favorite song, by far, is Five Little Monkeys. I love watching them dance. I definitely need to get a video of the dancing because some of the dance moves are so funny!

The Class Clown

We think Sam is going to be the class clown in school. He will start the school year off great and behaving. Once he gets comfortable he will start cracking jokes and being silly. He really is silly a lot of the time.

If we laugh at what he is doing he just runs with it.

He makes us giggle and I just love it!

Hopefully the class clown thing won’t get him in to too much trouble in the future!

This Little Light of Mine

I’m going to let her shine!

Let her shine!

Let her shine!

Let her shine!

Anniversary Celebration

Last Sunday was our seventh anniversary so we decided to take a little get-away. Over this past weekend Lance and I went to Savannah. It was a nice little vacation but not too many pictures were taken.

We drove down Friday morning and arrived around lunch time. We checked in to our hotel and then headed out for a bite to eat. We stayed at the Hyatt on River Street. (If we had to choose all over again, I don’t think we would stay there. Our room overlooked River Street and the river…it was loud all night. We didn’t sleep well with all the noise. After touring around the city, I think I would choose to stay in a cute little bed and breakfast type of place. There were tons of those.) After lunch we walked down River Street and checked everything out. About the time we got to the end of the street it started thundering so we headed back to the hotel. The second we walked in to our room it started hailing so we were happy for some down time in the safety of our room. After the storm passed we walked a few blocks away to just to see what was around, eat some ice cream at Leopold’s, and then headed back to River Street for dinner.

During our walk around we found a little breakfast place we wanted to eat at so Saturday morning we headed out to eat at Goose Feathers. After breakfast we did a trolley tour of the city. I have been to Savannah several times growing up because my Dad’s family is from there. However, I have never done the tourist stuff. We decided to get on and off the trolley and check out a few of the old houses. We visited the Juliette Gordon Low house (founder of Girl Scouts) and then the Owen-Thomas house (I think that was the name).

No pictures were allowed inside the houses so we only have pictures from the outside. The houses were so different from each other.

I actually don’t remember this house looking so run down from the outside when we were walking through the garden. Funny how different this picture makes it look. I liked the JGL house much more!

After the trolley tour we decided to forego the museum tickets we had and walked around a bit. We then headed back to our room to take a little nap. That evening we ate dinner at The Olde Pink House. It was, by far, our best meal of the whole weekend. The food was amazing, the atmosphere was nice, and the service was wonderful. I wish we had taken our camera so that we could have had our picture taken together. We did not get one single picture of us together the whole time.

Sunday morning we woke up to head home. We had a nice and relaxing weekend and the kids had a blast with Gigi, Granddaddy, and Aunt Becky. I don’t even think they noticed we were gone.

Puppy Sam

As much as Reese dislikes dogs, Sam likes them. When he sees pictures of dogs he says he wants to bring them home. When he sees dogs in person he asks to pet them. When we go to the park we have to go by the dog park to see the dogs running around. And now one of his favorite games to play at home is Puppy Sam. He crawls around with his tongue hanging out and will beg at your feet. He has to be the cutest dog I have ever seen. And probably the only one our house will ever have!






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Beautiful Day

What a beautiful day it was today! After naps we headed to the tennis courts in the neighborhood to ride bikes/scooters/battery-operated-toy. When we got there and some people had their dogs playing on the courts so we just rode around in the parking lot.

After playing in the parking lot we played on the playground for a little bit and then finally the dogs were gone so we took over the tennis courts. On the tennis court the kids wanted to throw tennis balls and run more than ride their toys. We also did a little ballet with Reese.

After playing outside we came home and the kids painted in the garage.

They both really enjoyed that time. They painted for about 30 minutes.

Is it sad to say that I am loving this mild winter? Being outside is the best when it is so beautiful!