Back in a Routine

Ever since school started (back in August!) I have had so many random pictures but yet nothing I have posted about in particular.  Partly because we have just gotten so busy and partly because I just forget...whoops!  So that leads to this long post full of random pictures.  We are now back in our routine of school, church, activities and just on the go craziness!   Cohen and Kate are both enjoying their school years.  Kate seems to really enjoy kindergarten which has been a big blessing.  I love hearing about her days and I'm glad she is happy at school.  She finally started her soccer season and has been doing so good!  I couldn't be any more proud of her.
Cohen continues to do great in school too!  She never ceases to amaze us both with how smart she is. She has really enjoyed her class and has also came home talking about things they are learning in school.  Of course the older you get the more she can complain about school too, but I know she enjoys it.  She is also on the yearbook staff this year at school so that has been a new, fun experience. She continues to be devoted to her twirling and also loves tumbling. Just this past week she did her back walkover and also landed her back handspring on the trampoline.
To say Bryce loves preschool with Sug would be an understatement.  He loves it!  I love getting pictures of him at school and hearing about things he does.  We celebrated his birthday at school just this past Friday!  He sings songs, and is so smart!   I cannot say enough about how I love my days with him.  His personality is so awesome and he never meets a stranger.   I am definitely trying to make the most of my time home with him!

Here are just some fun pictures from the last 2 months:

Bryce and his 2 year class

We celebrated Devin's 23rd birthday.  Can you guess who helped me pick out Devin's cake??  Bryce is so much like Devin when Devin was his age.  They both share a love of trucks...monster trucks at that!  

How I find Bryce...in the garage ready to ride...helmet & goggles on

Some Pictures of Kate enjoying kindergarten.  On this particular day she was the superhero in the class so she got to wear the superhero cape.  This was the first week of school.  Once you have been able to get your clip moved to pink you are the super hero.  Well Kate informed me she didn't want to get to pink anymore because she didn't like wearing a cape.  Only Kate would say this, but I told her she could still go to pink and just not wear the cape!

 The girls did a Little Lions cheer camp this year.  I think they enjoyed being with their friends more than anything, but it was cute watching them.

At the beginning of September we celebrated Nana's 85th birthday!  Even though the water was getting chilly we still swam.  It was so fun having our family up to our house.

Its always fun when a waif comes to visit!!!  Tina was in town in September.  We love when she has meetings in Atlanta!  Tara also drove down from Charlotte so we could have some girl time.  Even though our visit was short we had a blast and I always love our visits.  There was a little hoverboard injury but nothing a little Motrin couldn't help.  You will see the reaction from Tina and Cohen below...

hoverboard fail...no one was hurt except the doll bed

That afternoon the girls had dentist appointments.  As Kate was getting her teeth cleaned I find this going on....Cohen acting as the dentist for Bryce.  I can't take these kids anywhere! lol!

Cohen & Kate got to go to the annual rodeo with their friends!  Amanda made them matching cute shirts and they had a blast!  They look forward to the rodeo every year!

We love to enjoy the weather by taking bike rides and on this particular Saturday we saw the train loading cars.  Well of course Bryce was amazed and wanted to watch.  At one point he was waving to the conductor and so the conductor started throwing candy to him.  He was then even more amazed at the "candy" train!

We also got to celebrate Suzy's birthday in September!  This was a milestone b-day for her so we had a surprise party!  We got her good too!

How can we forget the excitement of Hurricane Irma in September!?  For the first time in my life, school was canceled here for a Hurricane!  We only thought we were far enough away from the coast to avoid being hit.  Irma did a good bit of damage, nothing like what the coastal areas get, but still enough.  We were lucky enough to have only lost power for about 4 hours.  Sug and Pop lost it for 3 days!   Bryce and I had some Hungry Hippo playing time.  The neighborhood trampolines were destroyed.  We were shocked to look out of our kitchen window to see the Shavers' in our trees.  It did stay in this spot though and didn't travel further towards the pool.

When we lost power it was right in the middle of cooking but never fear,  Hubs found another way.

neighborhood clean up crew

The Harbin's trampoline

We had to get a sweet picture of these 2 cute snaggles after school one day! 

Bryce had Grandparent's day at school.  Bebe was out of town so Suzy & Denny filled in.   Sug of course is playing double duty on this day...Grandparent and teacher.

Big milestone for Bryce in September...his first home Georgia game.  We are raising this boy right, introducing him to UGA football!  He LOVED it!  He is always singing "Glory Glory" and calling the dawgs!  He was amazed by the band, loved all the songs during pre game and even during the game.  And of course he loved the dippin' dots!

Enjoying lunch with our Coco!

More Gameday fun!

you know just enjoying someone else's peanuts

While we enjoyed the game Kate was having fun at Autumn's skate party!

Cohen and Kate had grandparent's day at school at the end of September.  They always time that day around the book fair...how smart!

Last week was spirit week at school since it was homecoming week.  Here is Kate on 'Merica Monday and Cohen on twin day.  Kate had to miss a few days for not feeling well.

notice the lion tooth necklace she has fallen in love with.  It was from a book fair book and you know she was all about that!

Bryce had a visit at preschool from Miss Wishy-Washy!  He looked like he enjoyed being washed!

Cohen ended her week with a fun sleepover with her best friend Josi.  These 2 had a blast and had me laughing a lot!   One thing they did was the baby food challenge...YouTube has become a big thing for kids and all the challenges you can do!  They were so excited though and it was funny to watch them!

That covers a lot of our last month and a half!  We are moving into October looking forward to some cooler weather (maybe) and all sorts of fall fun!!  I love fall and all the fun things that come along with it.  Especially in October when we get Halloween fun too.  We have birthdays to celebrate too!  Fun fun!!

Soccer Season!

Tonight was Kate's first soccer game of the season!  Soccer just started at the beginning of this week but tonight was game 1.  Kate was moved up in age this year to the 8U team (even though she just turned 6) so she now plays with a goalie.  Age cut offs always confuse me but whatever.  Most of her friends in kindergarten with her are still in 6U but she is up and of course she loves the idea of having a goalie, and more so getting her turn to be the goalie.  She was so ready for her game tonight and she played so good!  She was running all over the field and was serious about getting that ball!  I love watching her in action.  She loves to run so she definitely got some run time in.  When I look back at these pictures she looks so grown!  I still see that first season of soccer when she looked so small.  And she is probably the youngest on this team but still looks so much bigger!  My girl is growing up on me and too fast!  I can't wait to watch her as she progresses this season.  She definitely loves the soccer field!
One picture below is absolutely PRICELESS!  Kate brought her game face to the field tonight and was giving the girl behind her the "look".  I was so glad I caught that because I have loved looking at it.  It shows how into the game she really was.  Go Scorpians!

playing goalie

Football Season is Here!!

Fall is upon us and we are so excited!!  I'm always so sad to say goodbye to summer because I love it so much but once we get into our school routine and the sneak peeks of fall start, I am ready to embrace all the goodness of fall.  It is one of my favorites too!  I'm all about sweater weather, boots, pumpkins, apples and of course GEORGIA FOOTBALL!  The Dawgs teed it up between the hedges 2 weeks ago and we were so excited to be back in Sanford Stadium.  We have now been back twice since we were there last night as well.  Georgia has now won their first 3 games so we are excited about our good start.  I hope we can keep it going.  The first game we took Cohen to because she loves to go to any and all the games she can.  I love that she has our enthusiasm about Georgia football.
We all went to the game with Blake, Kasey, and Bebe too.  We all rode together and ate downtown at Taqueira Tsunami.   It was so nice being back in Athens for game day!  You can really smell fall coming once football season is here.   It is always still nice and warm though so it has been nice having these first few games as night games.  The Dawgs were playing App State and pulled out an easy win.  GO DAWGS!

 Yesterday we decided it would be a great time to take Bryce to his first home game.  When he was 2 months old we took him to the bowl game we played in Charlotte so this wasn't his first GA game but it was his first in Athens.  We knew there wouldn't be another "easy" game like this one and if we had to leave early this would be the one to do it at.  He did great and had a ball!   We took him to the Dawg Walk and he was amazed at the band.  When we asked him what he thought about it he just said "loud."   He didn't understand that he was seeing the football players since they come through the dawg walk now in their clothes vs. their uniforms.   After the Dawg Walk we went to eat before going into the stadium.  Uncle Davis and Kayla had met us at the Dawg Walk so we had fun just hanging out with them.  Thankfully Bryce was happy and in a good mood.   He loved "jumping" down the stairs which was Kelly & I holding his hand lifting him up, and he loved just running around.  Of course with all those people that is hard to do.  When we finally went into the game he was mesmerized by all the people and lights and the players down on the field.  He loved dancing and saying GOOOOOO Dawgs Sic em!  Right after kickoff he told me he wanted to go home but then he started playing with a water bottle and with Michael and Wyatt who sat with us this game.  I think he played with Wyatt for most of the game!  Kelly took him out once to get Dippin Dots and he loved having his ice cream!  There were also some girls sitting behind us that he loved to flirt with.  I think they were actually with Samford but seemed to love Bryce and were happy to play along with him.  All in all he did so good and we knew he had had a blast.  He kept saying GOOOO Dawgs all the way to the car.  Today when he woke up he was talking about the game and said it was so fun!  The seed was planted!  You have to train these kids up right!  Red and black runs in our veins!  Go Dawgs!

mesmerized at the Dawg Walk.  Those instruments will do that!

Dippin' Dots for the win!  

SaveSave