August in a nutshell

First day of school for these 3!  

Liam - 5th grade- Mrs West

Kane - 3rd grade - Ms. Edwards

Reid - 3rd grade - Mrs Beachboard

I love that our kids are building friendships with kids whose parents we also grew up with.  One of the perks of growing up and staying in your hometown!

Impromptu water balloon fight at the Simmons' house.  Im not sure who had more fun - the kids or Marcus! 

Impromptu means no swim clothes so in order to get home in dry clothes ... just drop down to your undies!  They had as BLAST!  

The cats doing what they do best.  This was the sole reason we wanted them!

I loved having a cut flower garden.  This was my first year but I loved having a constant vase of fresh flowers sitting on my kitchen island.  I also loved sharing them, too!  The boys took these to their teachers.

August 14 - Nana's birthday.... and our 13th wedding anniversary!  Celebrating at her favorite place, Cracker Barrel

We worked hard to get the back patio ready for Ryan's 40 birthday party in September.  These patio lights were the perfect addition!

Summer = garden

Garden = cucumbers

Cucumbers = 14 day sweet pickles

14 day sweet pickles = YUM!

The biggest Dahlia I've ever seen!  

Afternoon walks became a little harder as the cats like to follow us everywhere we go.  Because they are kittens it made me nervous that if they followed us and then wandered like cats do, that they wouldn't find their way back home.  So our walk was cut short. 

A kid in Liam's class had a swim party at the Rec center and invited the whole 5th grade as like a back to school bash!  Kinda cool!

Playing around with the outdoor movie screen we bought to have for Ryan's party as well.  

Watching Jurassic Park because its Declan's birthday and he is obsessed with dinosaurs.

Liam decided he had finally had enough of the long hair and was ready to cut it all off!

So handsome! Mom cut for the win!!!

Its Fall sports season!!

Kane is playing soccer this fall...

.... Reid is playing Flag football in Tullahoma.

Annalise turns 1 year old!

Sweet girl!

I got her this cute little name puzzle and Uncle Ryan got her her first pair of pearl earrings. 

Reid is also playing fall ball in Tullahoma as well.  Manchester doesn't have a fall ball league :(. Ryan thought the Flag football and baseball would overlap a little bit but not interfere with each other.  He was wrong.  We missed a couple games/practices being at the other sport.  Totally learned our lesson! One sport at a time!

Pitching for the first time at I think the first game and he hasn't played since he was 4 .... :O

Sliding into home ... and out of August 2022!