A New Volleyball Season

 The girls have started their second season of volleyball with Stonehaven.  It's amazing how much they have improved since last year!  They practiced during the off season, and it shows.  They are playing pretty much all of each game now.  It's so much fun to watch them out on the court!

This has been such a wonderful season; I'm so proud of my girls!

September Fun

 Just a few pictures of some of the fun we've been having this month.

We love this guy.  He's adorable.

Ryan and I attempted a fig, prosciutto, and balsamic pizza one evening.  It was pretty tasty!

I finished another paint by numbers painting.  These are so much fun!

Lily loved getting to spend the night at Zaya's to celebrate her birthday.  Addison, Avery, and Molly Kate were there too which made it even more fun.

Ryan got a new firepit for his birthday from David and Jan.  We couldn't wait to fire it up.  Decker on the other hand...well, he's a little intimidated by it.

Happiest of birthday wishes to our most favorite guy!  We love Ryan to pieces, and we are so thankful for him.  He's an amazing husband and dad.  We're so proud of how hard he's working on his PhD.  We were thrilled to get to celebrate him.

Lily was a little bored on a Saturday afternoon, so she decided to whip together some little cake pops for us.  They turned out so good!

During this pandemic, we have missed seeing live sporting events.  We normally go to several Braves' games each season, and that just hasn't been possible.  We were beyond excited when Slade and Kim Casey invited us to join them one evening for the Chop House Experience.  Season ticket holders (which Slade is) have the opportunity to buy a table for four inside the Chop House.  There's food and drink and a great view of the game.  It was so wonderful to be with our friends again, and seeing live baseball made it even better!

Blooper came to say hi a couple of times.

The best part was seeing the Braves pull out a win over the Red Sox!

Lily and I had fun painting one afternoon.  I made the square shape painting and she made the sun shape one.  I enjoy spending time with her, and this was a fun activity to do too.

Mia recently started painting too.  She is learning how to use painters tape to make block letters and then paint a name or design from that.  They look really cool!  She's even turned it into a small business by selling these to her friends at school.  I love seeing how creative she is with this!

Granna and Papa gave Lily a handlettering book, and she has been having fun learning how to write in a different style for that.  It looks so pretty and professional!

We stopped by a Pike Nursery one day, and what do you know...we can grow a Lily!

This has been a fun month.  It's been a little slower paced and beautiful weather.  We'll take it!

August Happenings

We're getting back in to the swing of the school routine which is helpful.  Here are a few other items going on.

We were happy to finally get to celebrate Emily and Jeffrey's wedding!  It was originally scheduled for the end of March, but they had to push it off due to the pandemic.  They got married in their backyard on the original date in a very small and sweet ceremony, but it was great to have the big wedding and reception they'd planned this Fall.  It was a lovely event.

The new 6th grade girls had a fun after school party one Friday to celebrate a few birthdays and being back together.  They made several tie-dye pieces and had lots of fun.

We sure do love these girls!

Decker sure does love Ryan.  Granted, he's begging for food here, but he loves to be near Ryan.  When Ryan leaves the house, he goes and sits by the door for awhile until he comes home.

Mia made a cool picture collage to hang on her classroom wall.  It shows 10 high points in her life.  It was so fun to relive these memories with her!

We were beyond thrilled that the AMC theater finally reopened!  It's been closed for months, and our family has missed going to the movies.  There are no new movies out right now, but we were happy to go see The Black Panther on the big screen.

Pretty sure my fortune cookie from a lunch date with Ryan is just mocking me.

Mia made a fun little thumbprint art one day.  I loved all the bright colors that it used.

Upper School had to change their annual Camp Highland retreat a little this year.  They couldn't spend the night like usual, so instead, they left earlier in the morning and stayed later into the evening.  Lily had a blast.  I think this is one of the highlights of the school year for her.

Mia really hopes to be Spiderman for Halloween this year.  We found a costume at a great price, so we went ahead and purchased it.  She tried it on, and it's awesome!  Now the hard part is not wearing it again until the end of October.

I still enjoy leaving little messages for the girls on the white board outside their bedrooms.

It's so nice to be back into a somewhat normal routine; we're very thankful for this.