Friday, August 19, 2016

First Day of School!

Well, these pictures are the from the first day of school, which was August 4th this year, so I am only a couple of weeks behind! Ha!

Luke Michael
5th Grade
Ocean Springs Upper Elementary 

Amelia Grace
8th Grade
Ocean Springs Middle School 

Addison Kate
2nd Grade
Oak Park Elementary
 

BRACES!!

BRACES!!!

This is Amelia with her new braces at Smoothie King.  It was the only thing she could eat for a couple of days, ouch!

Friday, August 12, 2016

Amelia's 13th Birthday Party!

Amelia celebrated her birthday with her friends at La Plaza Mexican restaurant!

Sweet group of girls!


Happy Birthday Senorita!
Dinner followed by movies and sleepover in the guest house!

Silly girls, lots of giggling.  
It was the easiest sleepover we ever had, left them up there at 9:00 pm and didn't hear from them again until 9am when they were ready for some doughnuts!  
They thought it was AWESOME that they got to spend the night up there by themselves.  
Happy 13th Amelia Grace!

Thursday, August 11, 2016

Tennis anyone?

Besides camp and vacationing, Amelia and Luke spend a lot of time on the tennis court these days.  
Here are some recent tournament pictures!
Luke got 2nd in this tournament.
Amelia and Luke both represented Treasure Oak Country Club at the state tournament held in Jackson, MS recently.  
Amelia looking impressive with a backhand.

Luke firing up his serve.

Amelia was on the 14 and under team this year and played great girls doubles.

Luke was on the 12 and Under team and they were super impressive as well.  Luke played some boy doubles and some mixed doubles.

Luke and Isabella have known each other since they were about 2 years old and they have birthdays only one day apart!
They won this mixed doubles match in a third set tie breaker!

My tennis stars :)
Both picked out new hats at the tournament.

Down time and going out to eat are some of their favorite parts of tournaments!

This tournament was a one day tournament and that meant we were there for 12 hours!  Luke and Amelia both played well.
Amelia won the girls consolation bracket and she and her partner Molly did great in girls doubles. 
I was proud of them because it was 120 degree heat index that day and they hung in there, Amelia had four matches in one day!
We didn't finish until almost 9pm, they were wiped out!

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

The Great Escape- Amelia's church youth group trip 2016

Amelia was on her church youth group trip over her birthday week!  She had an AWESOME time!


The girls surprised her by decorating the cabin and her bunk!
One of the activities was for each church to build a cardboard box boat and get it across the lake.  Her youth group team built it and nominated Amelia to get it across the lake since she is the tiniest.  

I LOVE THIS PICTURE!  Look at all the boats failing, but Amelia is still going!  Her boat had completely sunk but the rules were you had to make it across in your boat with your paddle.  So she held her sunk boat and paddle and paddled the whole way with her arm...
AND WON!!!

And look at her cool trophy!!

Happy 13th Birthday Amelia!

Amelia Grace is 13 years old!
Unbelievable that we have a teenager!  

We actually had to celebrate a few days late because Amelia was away at youth group camp with our church over her birthday.
But presents are always fun, even when a few days late.



Luke and Addison were being goofy.  They are holding up the YoungLife symbol with their hands.  Their expressions??? Who knows.



Her very own laptop.  
I tried to explain how I got a word processor for my birthday when I was in 8th grade and they all just looked at me like I was 100 years old. 

Happy 13th Birthday sweet Mimi.  We love you so much!
You have grown into such a wonderful young woman!