Daddy's Girls

Life went right back to busy after our fall break trip. We have something just about every night of the week. Monday is gymnastics, Tuesday is middle school football games (this is the last week of that though) Wednesday Lilli goes to church and Thursday is gymnastics again. That first weekend after the break, I checked the girls out at noon to go to Dallas to go dress shopping for the dance coming up next week. We found a dress when we got in town and also got to get new crocs when Lil decided it would be funny to run up the down escalator 🤦‍♀️ I’m just glad she didn’t lose a toe! We met Christy and Landry for dinner and brought her back with us for a hotel sleepover.  Those girls miss each other but picked right up like they had seen each other the day before. Maddi’s Mom, aunt and cousins met us there later that evening and the teenagers had their own room. Katie and I went back Saturday, but Lilli stayed with Maddi’s family and went to Six Flags The 3rd pic is her reaction aft...

We had a wonderful fall break in the Dominican Republic with just our family of 4. We have been home for 5 days, but we did not get home until 3 o’clock in the morning on Saturday, which meant we weren’t in bed until about 4 o’clock, and it’s taken me about this long to recover from it, lol. We don’t handle staying up all night like we used to when we were younger! This trip was originally planned for July, but the girls passports did not arrive in time even though we had applied for them six months prior. We had to fly United because of our flight credits, and they did not have the same flights available at this time of year. We had to go through Chicago on our way down there, and Newark on our way back. It made for long travel days, but we finally got to the resort about 5 o’clock that Sunday.  We made no plans to do anything ahead of time, and ended up being really glad we didn’t. We did nothing but wake up and go to breakfast, go down to the beach and stay until lunch, And then...

We woke up this morning to temps in the 50s and for the first time it finally feels like fall! I don’t know if it will last, but it was nice to wake up to. It did NOT feel that way last weekend when we had our last pool night of the season The girls spent last weekend with friends because we will be gone for all of fall break starting tomorrow. Friday night was a pool night with 13 teenagers. Saturday was a girls night with 8 girls. We had to go by and see the new puppies at Koy’s Mom’s house too. I love that Lilli really loves her “friend group” and Katie still has her good friends and is making more everyday  This week was football games Shopping/hanging out with Yaya before we leave And the end of the 1st nine weeks. We are proud of how the girls did! Now we are ready to be on the plane in the morning for a week in the Dominican! 

We went back to the deer camp last weekend to hang out and watch the LSU game with the family. Katie had parents night out at Gymnastics on Friday so she and I did not go until Saturday so that she could have a sleepover. Matt picked up Lillian on Friday so she could go the whole weekend and they had a nice morning even though the hunt wasn’t what they hoped Katie and I got there Saturday afternoon and Matt took us for a ride to see his flowers and take some pics. I LOVE the way this one turned out, and you’ve never know it took about 35 tries because no one could keep their eyes open with the sun in our eyes. 🤣 He got some other good ones! And we had a nice ride And we got to see the cousins! We love this time of year at the camp! Now I’m ready for the fall weather to catch up with the fall feeling!

This is always a busy time of year. Between hunting season, still adjusting to school schedules, gymnastics, work… we rarely get free time. On top of that, it’s football season and Lilli has friends that play/cheer so we have been going to the middle school and high school games the last few weeks Lilli has her first “boyfriend” that plays for the middle school team so we have been going to watch. Plus, so many of my friends have kids that are playing, cheering, on dance line or in the band, that I get to hang out with as many friends as she does on those nights. And the high school games are just as fun for me as her too. I remember watching her cheer during halftime during a cheer camp in 1st grade and thinking it would be so fun to get to cheer on the team every week. That time is here and I’m loving it just as much as I thought I would. Last weekend was opening of teal season in Arkansas too. We missed the Plano McCormicks, but everyone else was there, plus Cara, Luke, Josie and Sh...