August Happenings

As usual we crammed in a lot of fun this last month of summer! Including *finally* selling our beloved stroller (Mommy hemmed and hawed forever about selling it bc we loved it. Chandra finally convinced her to do it saying she would buy grand baby Hillins a stroller that we would probably love even more.  Gotta love BFFs!). We also continued our Friday night dinner and sleepover rotation with our bubble friends, lots of pancakes including heart shaped, donut holes, a new puppy nephew - Goldy, small birthday celebration for our sister house kid Joe, private tumble sessions, annoying squirrels that keep eating our garden and rosemary bush, dry ice fun, all thing Squismallows and Legos (be sure to check out Trevor's You Tube channel!!), neighbor dogs Howie and Lulu (naughty puppies!), and the best talent performances ever by our bubble friends!!

Happy 10th Birthday Sophia!

We can remember clearly when Sophia was born so it blows us away that she is now double digits!  This year was a bit different without birthday parties but we sure enjoyed celebrating your 10th birthday together!!

LPGA

LPGA got postponed until August because of Covid and while we were all a bit worried that the weather would be hot and humid and miserable, turns out the weather in late August is perfect for golf!  Or at least it was this year! The bummer for this year was that our sweet golfer was so concerned about bringing her exposure to our house that she opted to stay elsewhere this year.  Not sure whose heart hurt worst but we definitely understood and was so thankful that she still came over to dinner one night to catch up and have Korean BBQ!  We are already counting the days until next LPGA!!!!   We did have some fun times though trying to find her on practice days, watching Daddy and Chandra play the pro-am (without the pro this year) and watching her almost make the final cut to play Sunday.  Just missed it by one stroke.  Again, next year!!!

HSC Open House

Home school co-op room is coming together!  All the parents joke that we wish we had a classroom like this when we were growing up!  As well as a sweet teacher like Ms. Tara!  We have a feeling Ashley is going to have a very good year! 

Sophia's Golf Fan Club

Sophia has quite the fan club to watch her golf!  This is what life is about - good friends and cheering them on!!  Doesn't hurt that the weather is gorgeous and we love our country club but these friends are a great group!  Glad they have one another!!!

1st Day of Virtual School

The time has come for school to start back up.  Here in Arkansas we had the choice of blended, which meant in the classroom 5 days a week but they could shift to virtual if a crisis came up because of Covid. Or they could do virtual school.  They promised that virtual wouldn't look anything like the crisis learning that occurred in the Spring but it was really our only option for Trevor as we just didn't feel comfortable sending him back into school with so many unknowns about the virus as well as the unpredictability of his schedule.  Would they be in school, out of school - for how long?  We like consistency :). 

As for Ashley she would be starting with a small home school co-op here in the neighborhood.  7 kids, grades 2-4 with an actual teacher doing non-virtual school curriculum.  We hoped to also do virtual school so that she remained in the school but that was proving difficult upon learning that elementary kids would need to be online for various scheduled zoom calls, small groups and other things.  But we were going to try!  Well, that lasted until 10:30am when Mommy had enough and closed her chrome book and signed the home school waiver.  Life sure throws you curve balls sometimes but we are trying to make the best choices we can for our family!  We think the kids are going to have amazing years!  Saying prayers at least!

Lake Day!

Jessica's 40th birthday celebration continued with time on the lake!  It was a gorgeous day to tie up and spend some time together.  Even Mommy got in the lake!  She did not, however, go down the slide!  The kids sure enjoyed it though!