A weekend with the girls!

One of my college sorority sisters, Amanda, got married a couple of weekends ago in Clarksdale, MS. I flew home solo to go to the wedding and several of my other sisters came without their husbands as well. It was great to see everyone again and so fun to party with all the girls.

Chi Omega's
How many people can sit on Lanier?
(Lanier, Jennifer, Leslie, me and Amanda)
Barb, Jessica, Mary Emrey, me, Leslie and Jennifer
Jessica, Ashley, Leslie and me
The reception was held at the Hopson Plantation. There are several buildings on the property including houses that can be rented. All the wedding party and lots of the guests stayed in these houses and I crashed with some of the bridesmaids in this big house. There were interesting things all over the house from signs to mannequins to furniture. I am sure some of it is worth some good money. Definitely years and years of history in these buildings.





And the "stuff" was not limited to the insides of the houses. There was plenty of yard art to go along with it.
A random pile of water skiis...
Cutout shadows on the wall (that were extra creepy in the dark)
And a unique bowling ball / wheel sculpture.

It was the perfect setup for a wedding, especially one where most of the guests were from out of town. We partied late, did lots of catching up and made the most of our short weekend back together.

Congratulations Amanda and Peyton! Thanks for the great reunion!! :)

2016 Ballet Recital

Resurrecting the blog to post videos in one spot for the family to see.

*Videography by Cason :)

*Videography by Cason :)

For reference, this was her first recital:

Happy Father's Day to this guy!! Love you Daddy!!

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Found this today. Gosh I am so lucky to have these two as my grandparents. Sure do miss my Pop but know he's so proud of us!!! 💜💜

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Saturday morning at the airport

This is the conversation we had Friday night:

Cason, tomorrow is Saturday, what do you want to do?
"Go to Neanie and G-Pa's"
Aw, bud, me too but that's too far for a day trip.
"Go to Luke and Hudson's???"
Still too far, I'm sorry, wish we could.
"But we could go on an airplane"
Yes, we could but it's too late to get tickets.
"We can go to the airport and look at strangers"

All I could do is laugh at that one. Sweet boy misses his long distance family and friends!!

We'd been talking about going to eat at the new Black Walnut Cafe at the Conroe airport so we could watch the planes. So we thought this was the perfect opportunity.

It's a great view and we had fun:

Of course, Cason was more interested in these bugs than the planes. He named them Anna and Elsa!

He had fun

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First dance day at daycare!

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Day 3 of soccer camp. "Mommy take my picture...I'm iron man"

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Soccer camp

We finally signed Cason up for some camps. Probably the worst year due to how crazy things are for me at work but he needed the experience. Soccer camp is this week. We also have science camp and basketball camp later this summer.

He was excited and nervous on his first day!

Breakfast

Ponytail

We've been rocking pigtails for a while bit today we did a big girl ponytail

Handwriting

Cason works on his writing and specifically his name at school daily. We try to reinforce at home. He really likes dry erase markers right now.

After playing with the number/math tiles, he wrote his name a couple times. 

"Tiny O" and an underline in the top picture. And he has to color in the A and O. 

Game night

We put Claire to bed and let Cason stay up and play some games with us. He won 2, Ryan won 1, and I won nothing. But we had so much fun and Cason is learning that he can't win all the time but it's still fun to play!

The view on the baby monitor

Ahh, they played so nicely together and for more than 5 minutes

1...2...3...

Cason writes his name

Breathing treatments

This seems to be a new part of life for Claire.  

Since our trip to the ER over Labor Day when Claire was struggling to get full breaths, we haven't gone more than a month without doing a few days of breathing treatments.

Thank goodness for Mickey and Doc!

My shadow

She is a mama's girl for sure. I spend most nights trying to cook with this little one between me and the counter.

My mom said this reminds her of how Pop would say I was her little shadow when I was little. 

Ice Cream at our Favorite Mexican Restaurant

We can always bribe the kids to eat and behave when free ice cream is involved

She did not like the little joke I played on her saying it was my ice cream and taking a tiny bite

All better

Cason's First Christmas Program

Cason was "that" kid.... not the one that cries and runs off stage.  No, he was the kid yelling at the top of his lungs.

In his defense, they did tell the kids to say the "Must Be Santa" part loud.  I guess he can follow directions when he wants to