It is Friday!

 Its Friday! And it is Homecoming!

It is perfect weather (hopefully the rain will hold off) and a great day to have a great day!

Lily was SUPER excited about her fun run this morning!

She was decked out in her running gear complete with her race shirt!

Snagged a picture before she jumped out of the car to head into school!

When I pulled up for the pep rally...I heard all the music....kids ready to run and all the fun! Lily is over there somewhere! :)

Alexis had the pep rally. The music messed up so the Sophomores didnt get to perform their skit but it was great seeing the Homecoming court and watching Alexis do her thing decked out in 70's attire!

They still looked so cute!

Go Eagles!

Lily is 12!

 Lily is 12 today!

Pictures coming since I took them with the 'big camera' this morning but in per traditional form.......she was excited to see her bedroom door decorated for her birthday this morning when she woke up! :)

Lunch....birthday cake pops and dinner tonight will round out her special day!

I cant believe she is 12!

Her big day with her decorated door! Today was 'Twin Day' at school...so she had to wear this exact outfit and I had to fix her hair just like this (with it pulled back and braided) to match Lauren, Katelyn, and Reese. :)

She is just growing up so fast!

Olive Garden and birthday gifts...her day is made!

We were alll sttufffedd!

Wordless Wednesday!

 

 

Homecoming countdown!

 It is Homecoming week around here so between it being Lily's birthday week...alllll the dress up days....and float decorating, and practices...and ALL the other things....

it has been a busy week!

Lily kicked off soccer practice for the first time this season and she is excited and ready!

Alexis has been doing all the Homecoming things!

The Sophomore class has the 70's as their theme since Homecoming week is 'Decades!' 

This is the beginning of their float decor!

Alexis had school open house and was proud to show me her sign she made and her 'special touch' with the 'I' :) :) She is so creative!

Making up for lost time!

 So, we never had the opportunity to couple skate in high school....

so we made up for it at Lily's party!

We all had so much fun at her party!

My sweet friend, Haley, took this picture of Tyler and I and I love it!

Our weekend!

 We had football.....football....friends...family...parties...Church....lunches.....all.the.things. this weekend!

It was a good one!

Reese spent the night with us Saturday night since Alexis had a sweet 16 birthday party! Lily and Reese had so much fun together! 

Jville didnt come out with the win but Auburn did so it made for a great football weekend even though we had a loss.

Saturday called for football food and my pumpkins coming out! Getting up in that HOT attic is NOT fun but it is SO worth it to bring out my favorites! Pepper jelly bacon cheese dip for the win!

 Lily went ahead and opened Reese's gift before we left for Church. They have the sweetest friendship!

 After Lily's party..we continued the party scene and had dinner at Effinas to celebrate Leigha's birthday with this kid crew! Yeah, I failed at more picture taking but their parents and Tyler and I were there too! :)

Lily's friend birthday party!

 She has been planning this....

for.....

months!

She has been SO excited about her birthday!

She had the best time and we all skated our hearts out! (And we may be feeling it tomorrow!) :)

Family picture! Alexis had a DD event so she was bummed she couldnt come.

Girls!

Sweet friends!

Allll the roller skates, neon, glow, and fun!

Friends forever!

They all had a blast!

Racing time! They all voted to have Lily get a head start since she was the birthday girl!

She was ready to win!....though she fell half way around! ha!

Love!

She is 12!

Super excited to have her favorite party!

All the glow!

My girl and me!

Grey did SO good! By the end of the party...he was skating by himself!

They skated and skated!

She was very specific with the theme of her party! Yeah...my fingers and parts of my hand, are stained black! Just wow at how those cupcakes were good but the icing....gracious! Everyone had black mouths...tongues..fingers and all! ha! It may be several days before it wears off! :)

Our 12 year old!

They were so loud singing to her .....that the entire place was watching and the DJ even commented on it! ha!

All the fun in one picture!

My welcome back party!

 And here I am...back to reality! :)

My welcome back party!

I think the students played....'how much can we stuff under Mrs. Law's door to see if she can dance!' bahaha! :)

 

Our last day in Texas!

So....goodness...Monday came so fast! I just dont know why time has to fly so fast when youre having fun...but, it sure did while we were there!

We got up and Tyler and Chris had an egg cooking 'cook-off!' Talk about hilarious...but all I will say is one was 'bad'...like really 'BAD' according to one child specifically (because the girls were all the judges on who had the best)  and the other's eggs won...while the other's was claimed to be cheese grits instead of eggs. 

I have laughed and laughed!

There was a lot of competition to be had! These two had so much fun together!

Lily was so surprised when we brought out her birthday cake and started singing 'happy birthday!' I mean...that is the reason we were on the trip and got to where we are!

Lily was upset that Madelyn and Camille would not be there for her party...so before the Messer's even had a house sold in their name...we had our tickets for the trip booked! ha!

After swimming, etc, we cleaned up and spent the rest of the day in Fort Worth! The Stock Yards was a great experience!

This was pretty cool to see!

Just beautiful with the cobblestone roads and the wood, etc! So cool!

Bob's for lunch! It was huge and the girls got a kick out of seeing all the famous people's cemented hands on the walls!

We headed back home and then us adults had a fancy dinner out while this crew had pizza and movie at home to cap off the great trip!

We got up bright and early and saw them off to school before heading to the airport and heading home!

Dallas!

 Since we had never been to Texas and the Messer girls have not experienced much in Texas....we did tourist stuff and had so much fun!

So.... X marks the spot! Right by Tyler's arm...is where JFK was assassinated!  Yeah....crazy to go to the museum and see how it all went down and to experience it (essentially) by standing there!

They have an 'X' on the road...you can kind of see it by Alexis' shoulder!

Dealey Plaza was a beautiful little area....with a lot of history!

So....if you can see the man (YES...in the MIDDLE of the road!) he is standing on the 'X' that I was mentioning in the above pictures. To think that Oswald shot from this exact window....ALLLLL the way down to where that man is standing and killed a President. Just unbelievable!

In the museum (which was a book depository building where Oswald had just started working at a month before) spoke about all things JFK, his assassination, all about Oswald, the conspiracies, etc! It was really neat!

So, of course....the girls had to have a picture with...JFK! :)

So....never been to an IKEA. Always wanted to go....but dragging Tyler all the way to Atlanta and getting him to an IKEA...not happening....

so...

what happens...we drag him and Chris...to the one is Texas! :)

The carts........................amazing! :)

Time for some TexMex! Of course we had to have BBQ, and Mexican...and Steak....while in Texas! Tyler is still drooling over this place and their salsa! His life was forever changed and claimed this was the best he has ever had!

Came home....and one of the most fun nights...

night swimming! We had the best time!