Daddy's Girls

We have had a great few days celebrating Halloween. It started with Landry coming in town to visit. Her Dad and Noah were going to their camp, so they dropped her off on the way. I took Lillian, Katie, Landry and Sadie to Surge on Saturday morning for a treat since she was in town. We came back and had some rest time-for me and Lil at least, the others never quit!- before going to the annual Garcia Zombie Apocalypse party. I didn’t get many pics at the party, but there were probably 20 kids and almost as many adults. The kids ran around playing outside for 3 hours while I got to catch up with friends I hadn’t seen in awhile.  On Sunday, me and Kelli went to see the new Julia Roberts and George Clooney movie for some alone adult time, and I came back and we carved pumpkins and watched The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown together. Katie did her first one alone! Bottom left is Matt, and bottom right is Katie. Around the time we were carving pumpkins, Lillian mentioned her throat hurt. She...

It seems like fall has just started, so it’s crazy that October is almost over. I’m having a Christmas sign painting party about a week before Thanksgiving, so my tree will probably go up in two weeks. I’ve already started shopping too! But we know these nice 70 degree days and 50 degree nights don’t last long in Louisiana, so I want to hold on to the fall feeling as long as I can. We didn’t do too much during our fall break. After we got back from Shanon and Alex’s we stayed around the house while I worked and the kids vegged. Which meant we had some very happy animals. (You can see they were getting bored when Katie made the dogs a tea party 😉) I think the only time we left the house to do anything was to see a movie. Pops came that 2nd weekend of it and we watched a lot of football and he and Lilli played a lot of softball.  Did  Matt got home to hang out with him on Sunday (he stayed until Tuesday) but he had enjoyed spending his weekend in the deer stand Work and school ...

When we saw Shanon and Alex back in July, we decided we had to make more of an effort to see each other and made plans to go visit them at the start of fall break. Matt’s normal annual checkup is in August, but we rescheduled for this week and make it a long weekend. We got there Saturday morning and spent the whole time vegging and hanging out, which is exactly what we wanted to do.  We walked down to the park in their neighborhood both days, and they cooked every meal. We had a great time just hanging out and catching up. On Monday, they had to work so we went to the store near their house to stock up on some of the delicious things they’d been cooking us, and then went to lunch before Matt’s appointment. The girls had never seen Houston Methodist or met his doctor so that was kind of cool. I felt like I needed to give them a tour, but Matt is always ready to get out of that place as quick as possible (understandably!)  We got home about 6:00 Monday evening, and it was back ...

These last couple of months have been a whirlwind. I started my job on the 3rd day of school, and about a week later softball started. It’s been a crazy schedule of Tuesday/Thursday softball games for Lil and gym for Katie. Plus MWF softball practices. I think we’ve been home before 830 maybe a total of five weeknights in that whole time. I’ve switched Katie to homeschool videos because we were constantly interrupted by work calls and the schedule was too much to keep up. It was a little adjustment, but I’m still very involved and it’s freed up some time to add back in walks, and park days, and the fun stuff we had been missing. On my slow days I still teach, but I like the backup. Yesterday was the last game of the season and we hope our lives calm down. We will still have private softball lessons and gym days, but our nights won’t be so late.  Lilli is really going to miss it though. She’ll play again in the spring and try out for the school team, but she made some good friends a...

We have finally been having some great fall weather. It’s been in the lower 80s during the day (Louisiana fall, lol) and down to the 50s at night. We took advantage of it this weekend and spent the whole time outside.  Lilli had her last Friday softball practice of the season, and one of the Moms brought her good camera to take team pics.  I LOVE this black and white one. I think I’m going to have to frame it. We only have one more practice and two more games for the season and she is very sad for it to end. We will keep up her weekly lesson and time in the batting cage though. When we got back, Jen and the girls had just gotten here to spend the weekend. I was very excited because it’s the first time just the 3 of them have ever come and we got to have some girl time. Normally when I see her, there’s a crowd. We had a lazy Saturday morning and then we went to Asbury Pumpkin Patch to take some pics and run the errands for the party.  We thought about getting in the pool, ...