Sunday, July 16, 2023

The End of Another School Year

 I was dreading May to roll around.  Knowing this was Liam's last year of elementary school was a big deal and a touchy subject for this momma's heart!  Liam will be off to middle school next year while the twins still have 2 more years as a College Street Cougar.

Some of Reid's class on Field Day 

Kane's class on Field day. 


One thing about Liam is he will try out anything once to find what he likes to do.  We have tried most every sport and now on to non athletic things.  This year he tried out for Singers at school.  Throughout the year they have performed in different musicals and shows.  Their last show of the year was Music In The Park.  


The Singers sang songs they had worked on throughout the school year and the Steel Drum band played their songs as well.  




Liam's last few weeks of school seemed like nothing but fun.  They took multiple field trips and had movie days.  Just spent time making those core memories of their last year of elementary school.  This was their group picture at the Cumberland Caverns.



Only the fourth grade class participates in Lemonade day but the whole school participates in taste testing the lemonade!   


5th Grade Graduation.  It was held at the Rotary Amphitheater by the Rec Center.  It was a beautiful day for a Graduation.  I couldn't be more proud of Liam and his accomplishments thus far.  


Singing Auld Lang Syne as their farewell song.


This kid is going to do big things.  He has big dreams of joining the Space Force or doing something with engineering. 


He will go to Westwood Middle School next year and intends on trying out band.  He says he wants to play the Trombone. 


After Graduation we ate dinner at the Waffle House per the graduates request.  Reid and Kane found the jukebox and was the after dinner entertainment.  They are currently obsessed with Michael Jackson.


These came up in my email and I about lost it.  This is every grade picture all side by side.  Man, they grow up too fast!




Now to enjoy summer break!!!!

Mother's Day Weekend

The Wednesday afternoon before Mother's Day weekend Liam had a Dr appt for a med check.  He had to miss his last CSES Singers ice cream party so we stopped for rolled ice cream and boba!


It was nice just getting to spend time with just him.  We were stuck in traffic on our way to the Dr so we were about 15 min late but had good conversation.  It was a good start to the weekend of celebrating moms!


Friday night we had a surprise birthday party for Katy.  We have been friends since middle school.  I cherish her friendship so much!



Our gym crew


Saturday morning was Katy's birthday workout and it was a good one!


After the workout we went to the Dusty Elam farm for all the fun festivities there. 





Then after that we had Carson Chester's 2nd birthday party. It was Toy Story themed so of course we had to participate in the photo op!


Sweet Addi J!


Sunday morning we all went to church.  Our connection group is doing a study on Parenting and we always go over our time with discussion.  That means one of us has to sneak out and go get our kids out of their classes.  I couldn't miss the opportunity to snap this picture of all our boys together. 


For dinner we cooked out at our house.  My parents, Ryan's parents and Maggie and her crew all came over.  As Ryan and I were getting everything together we started reminiscing about what we were doing that day 12 years ago.  12 years ago we lived on Polk street and had a cookout to tell everyone we were pregnant with Liam.  We also cooked ribs that day too. 



It was an jam packed weekend but we are so thankful for all the mom's we get to love on and celebrate not just on Mother's day but everyday!

 

Easter

Our jam packed Easter weekend started off with our annual Good Friday Last Mile walk.  We met up at Tristar, grabbed our weight to carry and started walking. 



The kids joined in too! They quickly regretted the decision to carry weight and after listening to them whine so did the parents!!!!


As I was listening to Jake talk at one of the stops I looked down to see this.  I laughed so hard inside.  He was in a complete trance in superhero mode.  Fighting off those villains that were telling him to close his eye and take a nap!!!


The kiddos listening (sorta) to the story



Our annual Easter Sunday matching outfit outside the church picture


After church the Brasfield clan came over for lunch and egg hunt.




Enjoying the beautiful weather!






Then dinner and egg hunt #2 next door at the inlaws house!



Saturday, July 15, 2023

Winter Recap


Quick Winter recap...

Starting off with Manchester Christmas Parade.


Christmas shopping with Maggie usually means a stop at Chili's.  We also had these fun Christmas margaritas.



Celebrated our friend Case's 6th birthday


Ryan had gastric sleeve surgery.


End of the school year/last year as an elementary school kid trip bowling.



Houdini cow.  His escape became an almost daily occurrence until Mark fixed the electric fence.


Snuggle bugs being snuggly


Last day of school pajama party


Saying goodbye to Leon after he spent Christmas and our trip to Disney with us.  We spent our last night with him at the movie theater watching Avatar:The Way of the Water.




This little sassy frass is starting to show her little personality.  She loves her Barbie dolls. 


My birthday dinner at J&G




Liam started Bullyproof jiu jitsu two days a week to help build confidence in himself.  


Easton's birthday party at Climb in Murfreesboro


Piggyback rides!





Fun day for Baskin Robbin's ice cream ....


... and the Ninja warrior park to burn off some energy!




Tristar Transformation - Crossfit Open with one of the besties! 


Liam's Singers group at school was asked to be part of the Westwood Middle School play, Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat.


More Bullyproof training



The third grade class performed The Principal and the Pea at school.  Reid's part was one of the principals. 


"I hate peas but I love brussel sprouts!" "We should have brussel sprouts everyday"



Welp, that's winter in a nutshell!