Surprisingly, Monday morning Leia was the last one up. In fact, Ivy even went in her room to wake her for diving. Leia was not ready to get up so momma took Ivy to dive and let Leia continue having rest time for the morning while mom and dad both worked. The rest of the… Continue reading Week 7, Summer 2021: Diving, Relaxing, Bowling, Aunt Joy and Cousins visit, and Olivia Spend the Nightight

Monday morning we headed to “First Watch” for breakfast before the guys headed to the golf course and the ladies planned their day. We asked Leia and Ivy to agree on what they wanted to do. After much discussion we landed on going to JoAnn’s to get cake decorating supplies for Leia and fabric for… Continue reading Week 6 Summer 2021: Bowling, Golfing, Painting Pottery, Huckestien’s visit, and a chill weekend

Monday, Ivy ended up sleeping until 8:30 so the girls missed swim and dive but did a fantastic job cleaning up the house while momma and dad worked. Mid-morning Holly Talley asked if the girls would like to join them at the pool so she came by to pick them up for a little pool… Continue reading Week 5 Summer 2021: Basketball party, life with momma not 100%, fireworks and 4th of July

Monday, Leia wanted a low key morning while Ivy was ready to go dive. Mommy and daddy both had to work all day so other then dive the girls entertained themselves at home. Nothing extra ordinarily exciting happened today but they did paint since they are old enough now to get it all out and… Continue reading Week 4 Summer 2021: Splash Adventure, Leia pool party, Ivy 1st place in dive meet

Monday was the morning the girls got to chose to sleep in or not. Of course they both chose to wake up and go to diving at 8. We ended up letting them stay at the pool until 10:30 so they could play a little in the pool after diving for two hours. They had… Continue reading Week 3 of Summer 2021: Bball camp, girl’s get hair highlighted, bowling, Father’s Day

Monday was sweet snuggles on the coach while mom and dad worked After work Ivy worked out with mommy Tuesday the girls were up early to go to horse camp 6:30 – 11. Both mom and dad worked while they were there and was as productive as possible. Momma made banana bread that afternoon at… Continue reading Second Week of Summer 2021: Swim and dive begins, June birthday celebrations, trip to Newnan, Ivy cooked dinner

The first week of summer has passed. We spent a couple days at the beach. The rest of the week we were back home without a schedule and simply enjoyed doing whatever we wanted to do. Chris played in a golf tournament. He played 90 holes of golf in 4 days; more than he has… Continue reading First Week of Summer: simply a time to relax

The beach drove looked different this year. Normally we all caravan down but everyone was on different time schedules so met for a lupper at Luna’s. Mimi and the Rhoads girls headed down about 9:30. We were the second car, leaving 10:30. Mark was the last to leave a little after 11. First car had… Continue reading Beach 2021

Last day of 5th grade and 3rd grade for our girls  Last day for Leia to pack her bag to go to elementary school They are happy to be skipping the half day tomorrow   Ivy’s EOY party was a lesson in Murphy’s Law! We were shorted an item from Chick-Fil-A and only got half… Continue reading Last Day of School, Ivy EOY Party, Leia’s Clap-out

Leia is wrapping up 5th grade with a pool party! We are so proud of all of her accomplishments and the sweet, beautiful young lady she is becoming. Mommy and daddy will miss the convenience of taking both girls to the same school. We imagine Leia will miss being at the same school as her… Continue reading Leia’s 5th Grade VHEW Pool Party