Happy Birthday Daddy!!

To our sweet Daddy: We love you so much, and hope you have a wonderful birthday! Happy Birthday banner handmade with love by Maddie, Jack & Claire.

A Claire Post!

Because Claire and I are home (or out and about!) together most of the time, I tend to have more candid pictures of her. After looking through my camera today, I found a few I wanted to share! None of these individually seem like a post, so I'm including them all in one summary! Above is Claire in her cute little Red Sox shirt! Claire is not particularly a Red Sox fan that I know of, but her sweet Uncle brought her back this darling pink shirt from his recent trip to Boston (to see his beloved Baylor Bears play)! We love Uncle!! You can see Jack wearing his shirt in the New Bike post. I haven't gotten a pic of Maddie in hers yet!

PLAYING WITH CHLOE

Last week, Claire's little friend Chloe came over to play along with Kylie (a sweet little girl Chloe's mom watches). It's funny because Maddie's best friend is also named Chloe, so Claire was so excited to have "My Chloe!!!" come over. They played with lots of toys, and then moved outside to the sandbox and slide! I loved that they both had pigtails in that day! So cute!!


l-r: Kylie, Claire, Chloe







Taking turns!!



MY....tomboy???!!

I don't really think so!! But she did put Bill's baseball cap on backwards yesterday!! Of course she also included a headband underneath and all of the ponytail holders in my drawer as bracelets!! And then proceeded to paint her baby's toenails!! Oh, and she had my flip flops on too! Maybe she'll just have a fun fashion sense!




Painting baby's toes (can you see the nailpolish bottle!)

Number 7

For those who don't know, Jack takes 100% after his father and 0% after his mother in his love of sports!! He loves them all and plays most!!! In the fall, it's football - yes, tackle - yes, he's in 2nd grade (don't get me started!!!) I may not agree with the concept of tackle football at such a young age, but I do think he looks really cute in his uniform. He manages to look so grown up and so tiny at the same time! So last weekend, the Leopards got to play their game at the high school stadium! It really was fun to watch them playing from up in the stands. They looked so cute, but it seemed like such a real football game! And they won!! I tried to take pictures, but it was so sunny that I couldn't see anything on the screen of my little camera. So basically, I was just holding up my camera and pressing the button. Needless to say, they didn't turn out very cute! But luckily one of the dads shared his pictures, so I can't take credit for the below! Remember, we're looking for #7!





That's Coach Bill in the back with arms crossed holding papers!





Good game!!

Arboretum Fun!

Next on our calendar of fun events was a trip to the Arboretum with Aunt and Chapman! Sadly, it was a school day, so only Claire and I got to go. But, we had so much fun seeing all the pumpkins and having a picnic lunch! We also got to meet several of Chapman's little friends and their mommies! I could use all kinds of excuses why I don't have many pictures, but the main one is that I hardly took any!! I could tell after the first two that my sweet daughter wasn't in the mood, so I quickly gave up. The cute one from above I stole from Alli's blog along with a few others (yes I figured out how to do that, but not how to link to her blog from her name!!) Fun day!!!

"Chapman, if we don't look up, maybe they'll stop taking our picture!"



















Alli and Chapman


























Sweet new friends (not pictured: Claire!!)

New Bikes

For the past several weeks, Maddie and Jack have been riding their bikes to school with our neighbor Brooke and her mom Alice. Alice is so sweet to ride there and back with them every day as I have Claire, no bike (and honestly, no desire!!) M&J are loving it, and the cooler weather has made it even nicer! However, both of their bikes had really gotten too small. Jack was hitting his knees on the handlebars!! So a couple of weeks ago, Jack got his new bike, and Maddie picked hers out on Saturday! Happy Biking!!


Hanging out on the driveway!

















Claire and Daddy

Oh Say Can You See....

A couple of weeks ago, the fifth graders from our district's three elementary schools were asked to sing the National Anthem at the high school football game. The district only added high school a couple of years ago, and this is the first year for us to have a varsity football team! They had a special Leopard Friday with all kinds of booths before the game. Jack got to play lots of fun games with his friends, and Maddie got her face painted and a new t-shirt! It was so fun being at a high school football game again! The fifth graders did a great job singing, and the Leopards had their first win!!! As I was not yet a blogger at this point, I didn't take many pictures, but if you look down in the right corner maybe you can find Maddie! I wish I could somehow circle her like they do on tv!

Just a Tuesday!

I snapped these one morning before school, because I thought Claire looked so cute in her pigtails. I couldn't decide on my favorite, so I'm posting all three!

Happy Birthday Grammy!

Continuing on in September, a few weeks ago we celebrated Grammy's 60th birthday! Her sister, Aunt Kathleen, came down from Chicago and surprised Grammy with a weekend visit. We had so much fun getting to see her and get caught up! We also had a fun birthday dinner and celebration on Saturday night. When I looked back at the pictures I had from the party, I remembered that Jack had my camera that night!! There might be too many to post as I think he took a picture of Grammy with each gift along with individual shots of everyone there!! But here's a summary!

Sisters!

















G with card Maddie made!

















Chapman

















Everyone wants a picture with Aunt!



















Two peas in a pod!