Full celebration mode for the bday girl!

 Though her birthday is today (13, on Friday the 13th!) we have been celebrating for awhile!

Between the friend birthday party last weekend and dinner with LaLa, Mal, Reese and Maggie, yesterday I cooked her favorite meal to celebrate since today is all things school, work, and football!

This morning she woke up to the traditional balloons and streamers on her door. I love this and she loves it too!

Family birthday dinner for the win! Alexa played the 'Happy Birthday' song over and over...we had candles, streamers, her birthday gift and homemade cookies. Her favorite meal (that she could and wants to eat every.single.day.) meatloaf meatballs, mac n cheese and mashed potatoes. 

I hope she felt the love!

She hadnt woke up yet when I got this picture!

13 years of Lily!

 She is officially a teenager!

13!

I mean, I blinked, literally!

She is all the things....ready to be a full blown teenager, so I presume it is time! :)

Happy birthday Lily! We love you!

Wordless Wednesday!

 

My girl's friends!

 Friends are rare.

Friends are something to treasure.

I am thankful both my girls have core friends that they love and love them back.

It made my heart smile to see both girls and their friends living their best life and celebrating to big birthdays of 16 and 13!

I hope that these friendships continue to grow and they both make all the best memories with them!

I have to say, Alexis' friends are a little more bougie than Lily's. They tend to be way more loud and goofy ....and they all know how to spend more money! :)

Lex, Aailyah, Sydney and Nyla

Lily's friends are more reserved and for sure not as bougie. They are still in the trying to act 'older' but are a little more awkward stage. :) ha! 

Lily, Lauren, Reese and Katelyn

The birthday GIRL is 13!

 I just cant believe she is 13!

My goodness, I thought with Alexis that time flew, but to see my 'baby' is now a teenager....just WOW!

So, after the Cross Country meet, we came home and cleaned up and then took off to B'ham to celebrate!

Lily loved her 10th birthday party SO much...that she wanted to do it again! So, that is what we did! We loaded up her best friends and they jumped (at a new/different/more fun place than her 10th) and then shopped and dinner (same at PF Changs because Lily is obsessed!) :)

Our 13 year old!

They had so much fun! They did a TON of fun things at Urban Air!

This cracked me up! Reese hadnt driven before and poor thing, she was terrible! 

Cupcakes and a happy birthday song in the car on the way to shop!

They were so grown! :)

I had to drag them out!

Dinner time! PF Changs is Lily's alllllll time favorite!

SOOO happy they got to join us!

Fun night celebrating with this crew!

And, because it would not post to the top...but love their friendship and love that they have each other!

Another early morning for Cross Country!

 We are getting the hang of this Cross Country thing and BOY are we learning that early Saturday mornings and trekking to all these new schools and places are becoming something we look forward to!

Lily loves that each course is different so seeing what all she has to run and do, is exciting! Seeing her finish the line, is just awesome!

The girls team is on FIRE!

They placed 1st again and this time was out of 18 teams!

It has been fun to watch!

Their tent is so nice! They were set and ready!

Our runner! She placed 43rd out of 124 girls! I  MEAN...................this 7th grader is killing it! She cracked us up because she said there were 'Four pages of names...........and her name was on the 1st page!' (when she was finding what place she was!) :)

Look at alllll  of them! 

We found her coming around the curve!

Her Daddy and I cheering her on as she went! This was on mile 2!

And....HERE she is............coming through the finish line!

Such a fun and awesome team!

Last time they got a trophy, this time, they got a plaque! 

Friday night lights!

 It was a yucky afternoon and led to a yucky night and a not so great score that had Moody on top of JHS.

We ended up not going to the game since it was an away game and the weather was so bad but Alexis cheered loud for the Eagles and had a fun night despite the weather and the final score!

Our Church

 We love our Church!

Our Church is growing and full of life and the girls are loving both being in the Youth!

It is always great to see them doing fun things such as this past week, they went to DNOW event and enjoyed seeing another Church and all of the local youth!

Wordless Wednesday!

 

Last day for our working girl!

 Alexis has loved being a lifeguard!

She has really thrived with learning the 'adult world' and making money, and all the things.

She has learned how to manage time (still needing to work on that, but getting there) how to deal with the public, how to handle having co-workers and managers. 

I am so happy that she has had a great Summer and has enjoyed her first job!

She sent me this Saturday saying that she was sad it was her last day to work. The pool closes on Labor Day weekend so she did her last shift.

She wants to do it again next Summer, so we shall see!

Impromptu! BEACH!

 You dont have to ever ask me if I want to go to the beach.

The answer is always...YES! :)

Same for my girls and Tyler too!

So, Misty called me late Friday and said that something came up and a friends condo was available and FREE if we wanted to go down with her for the weekend!

So, Lily and I loaded up Saturday morning and left a little before 4:30am and headed to Orange Beach!

Tyler wasnt invited (it was a girls trip....with Calhoun, of course!) :) 

and Alexis had all the things so they did not go with us.

I have not been to Orange beach since I do not know when so it was nice to see that area and see how much it has grown!

We had a great trip and it was just perfection!

Getting away was just what I needed!

We got down there basically when they were waking up so it was perfect! This was my view as soon as I walked through the door! Talk about nice!

This was my view the rest of Saturday and alllll Sunday!

And this view too!

Saturday night we came in late from the beach and Misty's Mom, cooked rotel cheese dip and we watched football! Leigha came too so it was a full condo of girls...................and Calhoun! :)

Lily decided it was time to pull her own tooth! She was SO happy because we had it scheduled to be pulled by Dr. Spivey so now she doesnt have to go!

Sunday was all the same. Beach, pool, relaxing and then we cleaned up and went to dinner on this night!

These three had fun together!

This was our view while we waited for our table!

I hated that the other half of our crew couldnt come but it was nice to be and spend time with just Lily! We had such a great trip!

Big rival night!

 Our Eagles played Alexandria Friday night and it is always a battle!

I love the rivalry! 

We had a lightening delay for about 45 minutes but thankfully it didnt rain so the game got to end at a decent time.

BIG win for the Golden Eagles!

Wreak the Rednecks was the pep rally theme!

I saw my country girl and her friends!

The girls!

Love looking over and seeing this!

It was a nice evening!