We packed every possible fun thing into September that we could it seems like...along with spending six plus hours at the soccer field each week for games. We had a great month and it feels like we are starting to get settled into our new adventure in Alabama.
We started the month with a trip to Tennessee (our first time back since moving at the end of June). The kids were out of school for a 3 day weekend for Labor Day and John was off work, so we arrived Friday evening and stayed until Monday afternoon. We had a good visit with lots of activities packed in.
John made coffee at Mom's house one morning and put his coffee in this GIANT "coffee mug" he got out of the cabinet. We all got so ticked that he was drinking his coffee out of this soup bowl. We decided it was the "I have four young kids" portion of coffee.
Since we were in Tennessee we just HAD to go to Dollywood. We had a great time with Lolly at Dollywood!
I did a little roofing while in Tennessee...haha
We visited with Nana and Grandad a lot while we were there too.
We swam in their pool on Saturday and Monday before leaving town.
We also got to see Emily, Eric, Drew, Zoe, and Zachary.
Lolly, Nora Kate, and I also went to get pedicures...well, pedis for Mom and I, and NK got a manicure. She thought this was so fancy and special.
The following week we met up with our friends, the Houghs, at the Space and Rocket Center.
We basically had the place to ourselves which was AWESOME!
My big boys were at school (and were of course disappointed to have missed out), but the littles had fun with their friends!
Space and Rocket center play area.
We received our soccer schedules and I was trying to figure out how to make it all work.
Three kids playing on three separate teams with 10 games per team over the next 6 weeks....BEFORE we even get to the tournament games.
I wanted to keep this picture of the game schedules just so I could remember what life is like at this stage.
This boy always loves making us laugh...here's Clayton the pirate.
Dawson and Carter's school had their first pep rally this year.
They do it so neat where the high school football players, high school band, AND high school cheerleaders all come to the elementary school for the pep rally and get them involved. I thought it was neat that the high school and elementary school were involved in this way.
Dawson's teacher sent this picture of Dawson with his shaker at the pep rally. GO EAST!
Dawson and Carter LOVE fishing.
Dawson, especially.
When John told him that this pro fisher was in town doing a meet and greet, they were so excited to go meet him and see his boat.
He even let them hop on!
The BassMaster Matt Lee.
John took this picture of Clayton looking sweet one morning.
On our way to pick the boys up from school, but he's wanting to nap more.
Love that sweet thumb and how he holds his blanket.
Nora Kate's first soccer game...EVER!
So excited to see this girl play.
Go Nora Kate and Go Snow Clouds!
Carter's first soccer game of the season!
Go Carter and Go Thunder Hippos!
Sweet Nora Kate loves to bake.
One week in homeschool we were talking about community helpers, so we baked sweet treats and delivered them to the fire station.
Dawson's first game of the season.
Go White Ice!
When we have Saturday soccer games we are there the majority of the day.
We load our wagon like this and squeeze sweet Mr. Baby in there too for a day at the Sportsplex.
We joined the YMCA, and Clayton LOVES the pools and splash pad.
We now insist on eating an apple without it being sliced.
The big three kids are all singing in church choir. There are so many kids in choir that they actually have several different choirs divided based on age. The way it fell this year, all three of my choir kids are in three different choirs. This has been a little bit to keep up with, but the good thing is that they a;; practice every Wednesday night. Dawson's choir wears black shirts and khaki when they sing and Carter's wears white.
This particular day Nora Kate's choir didn't sing, but it was the first time for Dawson and Carter to sing at church in Alabama. I'm proud of these boys.
As I've mentioned before I try not to post a ton of house progress pictures in our monthly blogs, and I'll save those for a few different posts after we get settled in our house....but this particular day was pretty exciting because they had most of the downstairs framed of our house and all six of us were SO excited to see it taking shape!
We went upstairs, but it wasn't framed in yet.
They boys thought this was SO COOL to be upstairs in the playroom with no walls (notice that serious grip I have on Clayton's arm...not the safest place to take your two year old-hah). Nora Kate was a little nervous we were going to blow off of the top of the house! Haha.
But here we are upstairs in the playroom.
John and I upstairs in our house...before it had walls.
Nora Kate has (finally) started getting to be a better driver of the princess car.
She loves driving Clayton around in it, and he's a happy passenger.
Nora Kate is continuing to do amazing at homeschool with me.
When we can, we do some of our school on the back patio.
Hard Hat Clayton visiting the construction site of our new house.
September swimming!
This picture is from our first date, but this month on 9/21 it had been 17 years since our first date!
That's crazy!
This month John went on a guys trip to Atlanta.
He went to a braves game.
While he was out of town, Lolly came to visit for the weekend.
We packed that weekend full of fun...first we spent most of the day Saturday at the soccer fields...all three kids had games which worked out perfectly because she got to see all three play.
It was oh, so hot! So after sweating for hours at the soccer fields we headed to an Athens sweet spot...the Kreme Delite!
Then we went home for a quick wardrobe change before heading back out to the Space and Rocket Center. Lolly had never been and we really wanted to take her. We had fun, then headed home for a pizza dinner. Everyone slept awesome after such a fun packed day!
The next morning Lolly came to church with us. It was a VERY special Sunday. It was Bible Adventure Sunday for Carter. This is the Sunday where all the 1st graders go through a special little program and receive their first Bible. It was very special that Lolly got to come to that with us.
Oh, and mixed in we have some pictures of the Tour of Champions Golf that John went to in Atlanta that weekend.
Look, it's John and Tiger Woods!
Bible Adventure Day
Carter got to read some Scripture from his new Bible to everyone.
We had a great weekend with Lolly and we were so excited to have her come and get to see and be a part of several special things this weekend-soccer games for all and Bible adventure day!
Oops, this is out of order...but look how sweet, hot, and sweaty at the soccer field!
Double rainbow!
At work they celebrated John with lots of surprises including these fun balloons!
Then when he got home from work we had gifts, cake, and a piñata (per the kids' request) waiting on him...well after a soccer game, of course!
We met a friend at Let's Play. It was our first time going, and it was SO fun! They kids had a blast and were super excited to meet up with Heather there to play.
Nk and Heather
The Friday after John's birthday we had a date night.
John wanted to try Axe Throwing, and I wouldn't call it my strongest skill...but by I did learn a thing or two and get a couple bullseyes.
It was a fun experience. John was way better than I was!
We took the kids to this restaurant downtown that's full of old arcade games...the big kids all enjoyed all the games especially PacMan. Clayton loved trying out every game with this stool they had for the little kids. HAHA
Pool fun at the Y
Love that sweet smile
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