Eighth Grade Formal

The end of middle school is rapidly approaching! Heritage celebrates by having an eighth grade formal. Cade and his friends all decided to go together sans "dates". Cade was all gussied up in an awesome suit I got for him. 

The gang all met here for pictures and we all pitched in an rented them a party bus. It took them to Mellow Mushroom in Franklin for pizza and then dropped them at the dance. Such fun memories!! 

Great group of kids! 

Daddy Daughter Dance

Elaina LOVES this time of year. She gets to have a special night with just daddy and her. I love it because it's the one time a year that she lets me dress her up and fix her hair:) She looked super, super cute! 

Daddy and his special girl:)

I mean, seriously, look at her little smile. I LOVE it! 

A TOTAL sassypants! 

Dodge Ball at Heritage

The boys both had teams at the Heritage Middle Dodgeball tournament this year. "Fam" for Grant and uh, white t-shirt, crazy sock for Cade. Cade's team needed a fill in and Rhett was ready to accommodate. He had a great time playing with the big guys:) 

Daddy Daughter Dance Time!

I actually kinda love Daddy Daughter Dance night. Elaina begs to spend most of her time in her athletic wear so when the night comes for me to curl her hair and put her in a fancy-ish dress I get excited:) She was a little disappointed this year that she had to wear her boots. She wanted sparkly high tops but I just could not find any at a good enough price for me to consider buying for the occasion. I thought the boots were perfect with their embroidered flowers anyway! 

Let it be known that when her date came to pick her up he gave her a beautiful corsage hand crafted by yours truly. It's amazing what a very not crafty person can do after watching a couple you tube videos! 

This is pretty much my favorite picture:) Her face pretty much sums up how I feel when Bobby is taking me on a date!

Daddy and Daughter. Second annual dance in the books!

Fort Building

The weather has been pretty mild and the boys have taken advantage of it by hanging outside and building forts. Annie has enjoyed all of the outside play time too! 

I was super impressed by their work! 

What's crazy is that a few days after they built all of these, a huge flooding rain came through. The forts were halfway under water and when the flood receded they were still standing! That's some serious fort work! 

Party with Elaina

Kindergarten Christmas (or should I say "winter") party with Elaina:)

Indoor Soccer

Cade finished his first season of indoor soccer with several of his buds. It was a lot of fun and little commitment. My kind of off season sport! Good times!