My Star Student

Happy October!!!

a/k/a the BEST month of the year.

(sidenote: I wanted to get married in October but "someone" waited until June to propose)......

I woke up almost giddy that it was October (well that, and the fact I was headed to Target after drop off). And then I was headed to the car dealership because of some pesky little light that kept coming on about low oil, shut off engine. I am religious about oil changes so I was pretty sure it was just a sensor or even worse, major engine trouble because you know, my car is just shy of 100,000 miles when everything goes wrong! My mechanic (another sidenote: he is the husband of the girl who fixed Dave and I up) came out and said "you need an oil change AND NEW TIRES". I told him those tires are only 4 years old and I don't go anywhere! Dave's friend reminded me of all my Target Trips :-)

Play practice is in full swing and started this weekend. Delaney had a play date on Saturday for 7 hours and it was glorious I tell you. I picked her up and the mom said "Delaney told me she wants a Chrysler Pacifica". My daughter is obsessed with getting one. It's ALL she talks about. So much that we had a conversation (which was really me yelling at her) that I didn't want to hear one more word about a Chrysler Pacifica because it was never going to happen. So now when we see one Dave's daughter points and says "there's the car I'm not allowed to talk about".........

Delaney is the student of the week so she and grandma got busy on her poster. I dropped her off this morning and told my student of the week to have a great day and she asked me if I could just call her my daughter, Delaney. 

Her poster says she wants to be a doctor or a teacher. I told her after consuming my life with so many play practices she better change that to an actress!

Well, I am off now to do all things pumpkin!!! Just kidding, I am going to pick up a new gas grill because I am too lazy to clean ours across town!

Happy Fall!

Fall la la la la la la la la

Fallelujah

NATIONAL DAUGHTERS DAY (is that a real thing)???

It's no secret this girl right here is my life....(in fact, we even have a little saying) 

ME: My love

DELANEY: My life...

and this one....

ME: Whole Heart

DELANEY: Whole life....

Get the picture??

It's so hard to wrap my mind around not having a girl.

Nine years ago I was pretty sure I was pregnant with a boy. For 20 weeks, I thought boy. But on November 10, 2009 that ultrasound tech said 

IT'S A GIRL!!!!

Now, I'm sure if there's a National Daughters Day, there's a National Sons Day but today (like every other day), I am just eternally grateful that this girl right here calls me "mom"...I mean we have the best life! I just never know what the day will hold living with this little girl. The first thing she wanted to know this morning (after confirming if it was a school day) was if her daddy wore a neck tie or a bow tie at our wedding! She's nothing if not random! (P.S. it was a neck tie).

(I'm also eternally grateful that we are having fall like temperatures today because this picture was taken at an outdoor wedding in the dead heat of summer :-)

2nd Grade School Picture

No picture retakes for us this year! 

How did this little girl become a 2nd grader?

On top of that, this week she learned how to ride her bike without training wheels and bought a "hot lunch" (walking tacos) at school. 

I don't know which one of those I was more excited about :-)

"YOU BELONG WITH ME".....

After a long 9 months of waiting it was time!!

We didn't tell Delaney about going to see Taylor Swift until a couple of weeks before the concert. #becauseiamasmartmom #shewouldhavedrivenmecrazy 

Delaney and Aubree ready to "Shake It Off" 

She loved it so much and was dancing like no one was watching.

It was quite the production....

And these girls loved it!

I think her bracelet is still lighting up... 

It was a blast going with these girls. Delaney was so well behaved #exceptforwalkingbacktoourhotelinhercowgirlboots and Taylor Swift did not disappoint!

When Words Fail You Because You Feel So Much More Than What You Can Say

Maybe she'll grow up to be a ballerina......

Or maybe a football player :-)

Or a comedian (because she's the funniest person I know)

I don't know what she'll be but mercy me do I love this girl!!

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Back to School Update

School may be back in session but we're still doing a lot of this! Our pool will be open for two more months so we're trying to soak up every bit we can. We just got some new landscaping out back so here's to hoping we can keep it alive :-)

This girl and her babies....

"Pool hair, don't care".......

(those are mosquito bites on her arm, not bruises)

I mean there's really just nothing sweeter than this girl, there just isn't. I can't even tell her how much she means to me because there just aren't words.....

 Not real sure why she looks so big here! 

She swims, I do this..........(it's sooooo good--the tea and the book)!

So when we go to Target, I always stop to look at the ads. 

I need to see the "big picture". 

Apparently so does Delaney. 

We went to Delaney's cousin, Braxon's birthday party and his mom is THE BEST at parties. It was an airplane theme and I kid you not she even had her daughter walking around with a tray of peanuts to pass around to the "passengers" #nowwhothinksofthat

 And it's back to tailgating....

She really should have been home studying #oooops

 And apparently coloring....

I love that she added the lady bug

 #theymakmethinkofherdaddy #howdoesheknowtodothat

Oh, and have I mentioned this is happening (again).....

#pleaseprayforme #iamnotadancemom #onlyiam

"We" are settling into 2nd grade really well. "We" haven't hit the snooze button once, I've only done the jammy drop off once, and I hate to even jinx myself but Delaney hasn't caught any "back to school bugs/germs" that have kept her home. She normally misses a day the first week of school.

She got the teacher she wanted and we're off to an awesome start (well, other than she missed one on her social studies test and forgot to study for her religion test!). There is a drastic increase in homework in 2nd grade friends......

Speaking of tests, she had her first spelling test last week and didn't miss one. This girl is an awesome speller. Last year, she only missed one spelling word the entire year. She "we" were devastated and pretty sure the teacher made a mistake (ha ha) but now, we just "goke" about it :-)