The Rest of September!

 September was a VERY busy month!  Here are some of the other things we had going on:

Sydney- UGA game with Kincayd & fam:

Taylor Basketball:

T wanted me to do her hair before her game

Taylor hurt her knee... my friend took this pic.  What a good coach ;)

GT game at Mercedes Benz Stadium:

Stephen's Birthday:

Halcyon:

Bus Stop Shenanigans:

A former student brought me this sweet bday gift:

Another GT game:

Candlelight vigil for our neighbor, who was in a horrible pedestrian hit-and-run accident while traveling for fall break... 

Homecoming parade:

High School football game w/ Kellen:

School Pictures

 Here are the kiddos' school pictures!

Sydney- 8th grade

Taylor- 6th grade

Parker- 4th grade

Parker is 10!

My sweet boy is double digits!  As much as I want to keep him little and sweet and snuggly, time disagrees with me. ;)

Parker is sweet, active, smart, a good friend, and an awesome son.  I am very blessed to have him!

Birthday rock:

Opening presents:

I love this pic, bc you can see the tears in his eyes... he was so excited to get this gift!

Birthday dinner:

Can you tell he liked his wings?

Fall Break (Part 2)

 As I said in my last post, we had to leave at 5:30 AM from Branson to make the ~4 hour trip to make it to Stephen's 10 AM meeting!  The sunrise didn't disappoint...

We made it to St. Louis and dropped Stephen off at the customer's office.  The kids and I headed across the Missouri River to a quaint town called St. Charles!  The brick road and buildings were all 200+ years old, and it hosted the cutest little shops and restaurants.  We got to walk around here for a couple of hours before meeting Stephen and some of the work peeps for lunch.

This made me laugh.

After lunch, we checked into our hotel, hit up a mall, got Chipotle to go, and called it a night!

Friday:

Today was SYDNEY DAY!  It was her 14th birthday and we let her decide what she wanted to do today!  

We started our day off in downtown St. Louis.  We first went to see the Arch, which is surprisingly awesome... I didn't realize how massive it was!

We went by the Cardinal's baseball stadium...

We went to get brunch and Sydney got a birthday hot chocolate!

The rain began (it was also 30 degrees colder than it was in Branson!!), so we headed to a cool place called the City Museum.  This was for kids and adults and had all sorts of things to do, including a 10-story slide, tunnels and ladders and things to climb up many stories, and so much more. It was fun!  I definitely felt l needed a shower afterwards, but it was fun! ha!

We went to a place called Union Station, which had a bunch of things to do (aquarium, ferris wheel, etc).  Sydney had wanted to do one of those high rope walk things, and they had a really high one!  It was a lot of fun.

That night, we ate dinner out before heading back to the hotel.  We flew out the next morning back home!

It was SUCH a great trip!  I wish I had a few more days to recoup, but I'm thankful for a fun, safe trip.