Daddy's Girls

We have had a busy week since that meet last Saturday. It sure feels like that was more than 7 days ago. Matt and Lilli jumped in the truck when we got home and headed straight to the camp to hunt the next morning. It was a big day, because Lillian got her first birds in the air. On Monday, she and Matt went to get measured for her new gun that was in too. She’s becoming a real hunter.  Sunday night was our annual Christmas in Roseland lights with Cara, Luke and Josie. We had an early dinner and saw the lights together. I love this tradition, and you’re never too old to tell Santa what you want for Christmas! On Tuesday, we drove down to Baton Rouge to have a quick family dinner and say bye to Daniel and Anna and give them their gifts. They left Wednesday morning to spend Christmas with their family in England. Luke couldn’t go, so they traveled alone and one of Luke’s friends picked them up to get them from London to South Hampton to their grandmother’s house On Wednesday we visited N

It was an extremely early morning today with alarms going off before 5:00 to get ready and be in Ruston by 7:30 for Kathleen’s very first state meet. She was so excited and has been counting down the days for weeks. She was all nerves at the beginning but quickly settled into her groove and did her thing!  She was 1st in vault and floor, 2nd in bars and 3rd on beam. Her scores also won her a medal for 1st in All Around for her age group.  I loved how she was standing just as proud no matter which podium she was on. ❤️ The scoreboard said she actually had the highest points out of all 43 girls at the meet. They weren’t all her direct competition, but I think that’s pretty impressive! It was a big day for her and she ended it with a sleepover with Britney. Great day all around!

We have been in Christmas mode around the McCormick house. It’s definitely different this year though. We haven’t had any pancakes with Santa or done any cookie decorating. There are are no class parties and plans to do something for the season everyday. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t in the spirit in our “big kid” way. They went to a party at Heather’s last weekend. She hosted a “parents night out” and had about 10 kids over. Matt and I took advantage and had a date night and they had a blast. They were texting me asking me to pick them up later. 😊 We hated the reason, but we were glad to the cousins last Sunday. The Plano fam was in town for Rachel’s Moms funeral. It was a beautiful service celebrating her life and we were glad we could be there for them. And the kids were glad for some play time too. Kathleen got to take advantage of being homeschooled and spent the night at Yaya and Capn’s with them. I picked her up right after car line on Monday morning so that we could get home

I haven’t gotten to hang out with my girlfriends very much in the last few months, so I decided to host a “painting with a twist” type party at the house this morning. Everyone got here about 10:00 and we started with brunch and mimosas. After we were fully stuffed, we all sat down to work on our paintings. I ordered kits from someone I found on Facebook and provided the paint and supplies. We all got to sit around catching up for 2 hours while we worked on them and they turned out super cute!   Lillian did one too the night before. I wouldn’t let her participate during the party because that was mom time. She and Kathleen also had to host the kids that came. There were 6 total and they spent most of the time outside with the chickens and on the swing, but Ashley also brought ornaments for them to paint. When we got done, we also had two games for them to play. The Saran Wrap ball game and also the Left/Right game with a gift. We decided to have everyone bring Christmas socks for the e