2026 started off with a bang as we began in the year in New York! Life kept a quick pace throughout January and February. Here are a few of the pictures from those couple of months.
We ordered Mia a lovely dress for her Winter Formal. It needed a bit of hemming and thankfully, she knows how to do that. She looked so beautiful!
Mia met Dylan at the dance. Dylan is a long-time friend of one of her Brylliant friends.
Ryan was thrilled to be invited back on a mission trip to Spain to teach at the seminary again. One afternoon they took a quick trip over to Segovia; look how gorgeous the castle is with snow on the ground!
The Quiz Bowl team won state again this year!
Way to go Mia and Quiz Bowl Team!
Just a couple of super cute Sully pictures.
Ryan and I went to see Hell's Kitchen at the Fox with our friends, Jackie and Michael Fogas. We weren't super familiar with the music (all from Alicia Keys), but it was a well-told and fun story. We enjoyed our evening together.
Lily got to participate in Step Sing this year! There are two freshman girl shows but so many freshman girls that they do a lottery. At first, it was disappointing when Lily wasn't part of the winning lottery group. However, AOII is one of the few sororities that actually lets freshman audition to participate in their show. Lily auditioned and was selected! Brylliant prepared her well!
We were so excited to be back! We both love Step Sing.
AOII had a super fun show called about ghost hunting. It was called "The One That Got Away." They sounded really good and had some great formations.
Some of our friends were watching online, and they found Lily!
What a fun evening!
Super silly I know, but there was a trend of using AI to make a picture of you, and I couldn't resist. Here's what it generated for Ryan and me. Love that London and Florence are in the background!
Our weekly small group meets on Tuesday night, so we've had a fun tradition of having a King Cake from Gambino's Bakery on Mardi Gras. Whoever finds the baby gets a $25 gift card - congrats to Jason Kuykendall on winning this year!
More cute puppy pictures.
There are three Smyrna First Baptist girls at Samford right now, so Ryan, Jeff Pennington, and Luke Elrod drove over one afternoon to have dinner and enjoy a basketball game with their daughters. What a fun quick trip!
We continued our annual Valentine's tradition of putting hearts on the girls' bedroom doors each day telling them some of the attributes we admire in them. I took a picture and sent it to Lily so she'd see hers daily too.
On Valentine's, Lily happened to be home which was great. We had a wonderful charcuterie board for dinner and this delicious strawberry guava cake for dessert.
We watched a movie together that evening called An Unstable Marriage because Lily's friend from childhood, Avery Hobson, was one of the lead characters! How cool is that?! So fun to see her dreams of being an actor coming true!
Sully chillin on the couch.
We sent King Charles a Christmas card back in December, and we got one recently in the mail. Ha! Better late than never!
We are loving our new deck! Our friend, Matt Johnson, owns a company called Artisans of Atlanta, and they did an excellent job on this. We will enjoy this for many years to come.
Happy 1st Birthday to our sweet Sully!
One of the girls' Christmas gifts was for the three of us to go see Dancing With the Stars Live at the Fox. We had so much fun watching together (though Lily was often remote), so it only made sense that we'd all go together for the tour. Elaine Hendrix was our celebrity host of the evening.
The pictures simply can't do it justice. They were incredible, and the songs were so much fun.
The first two months of the year are off to a great start!
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