Brown Belt

Pierce was promoted to Brown Belt in late August. Another big accomplishment!  He now moves up to the advanced level class.  Way to go, dude!

Sweet Baby Love

This one LOVES his new baby cousin, Lily Grace! She is in trouble because I bet he will be very protective of her too.  It's hard to hold her when he's around...little baby hog!

2nd Grade!!

Since I'm WAAAAAYYYY behind, maybe I can catch up for printing purposes since it's almost Thanksgiving! Ha!!

Meet the Teacher with Mrs. Durdin...and of course, Pierce is distracted by something and is not looking at the camera.

Celebrating the last few nights of summer before school starts by having Grayson over the spend the night!

2nd GRADE!!!  How is my baby boy so big?!  Next year we change schools (yet again), but at least he will know the kids at school.  This kid loves, loves school!

Back to School Countdown

August started which meant school was right around the corner. Our neighborhood hosted a back to school bash at the pool with a cookout, jumpy, swimming, and a movie. I failed at taking pics, so it looks like Pierce and Grayson had the pool to themselves. It was nice to actually know people there this year, unlike last year!

Our sweet neighbors, The Doyle's, also hosted a family play night just before school started back.  There was a lot of football being played, along with making their own hotdogs and smores themselves!

These soon to be 2nd graders had fun!

Toothless

Just before school started, Pierce lost his front two teeth within a week of each other. I loved his new toothless grin! I wish it would stay like that!  He decided to write a note to the toothfairy after the last one came out, which was #4 I believe.

Summer Days

Our summer seemed to go by very quickly, so we tried to pack in a lot before school started back.  After our back to school eye drs appt (hence the funny looking sunglasses), we had a treat at the pop factory then headed to the Opelika Farmers Market.

Pierce decided we needed some fresh squash for dinner!

Our adult SS class had a lake day for families, we loved this lazy lake day with new friends!

Pierce also attended golf camp at AUC.  He was excited to learn a little more and go where the Auburn University students play too!

Mexico Beach 2015

We had a special guest with us for our family beach trip this summer, Carter!  We finally found a time that worked for both of our schedules for him to join us.  Pierce doesn't always think it's fair that he's an only child, but this time it worked to his advantage to have a friend tag along!  We love how Carter joins in like he's part of our family and never skips a beat.  Such precious memories for these sweet buddies that rarely see each other now.

Mexico Beach doesn't have all of the fun things to offer like some of the bigger beaches, but they didn't seem to mind at all.

This was on our kayaking day, it's our favorite day at the beach.  Maybe I'll find those pictures to add soon.  Indian Pass is our one must eat place on our trip!

This was our last day, M and I were literally drenched from head to toe since the waves were much stronger so we would take the boys out and jump the waves past where they could reach.  The literally played and made things for at least 7 hours and still didn't want to leave.  I could sit and watch this view all day!