What we've been up to the last month.....

Random pictures, excluding a few events (like Halloween, pumpkin patch, field trip, etc...) that I'll do separate posts on. (You know, keeping my 5 readers on the edge of their seat, waiting to see if I go another 3 weeks before updating.😏)

Hollon brought this little Paw Patrol masher dog home from my parents. She was obsessed with it.

It had to be in her morning picture

We have since lost it, and she has been most heartbroken 

This morning, she insisted her morning scooter ride include Peppa Pig and friends

Telling me she couldn't take pictures because her ears were cold

Jake got some slime in a goody bag, and Hollon has played with it more than him. She was burying her princess in it and then "finding" it. She kept wanting me to record it, like a youtube video.

And then brother interrupted. And questioned what she was doing.....

Hollon's sweet little gymnastics class (The teachers and one of the girls were dressed up for Halloween, since they were not have class actual Halloween night. I didn't dress Hollon up in costume for gymnastics, but did put her in her bunny costume from last year for ballet. She looked so cute, but in the rush of class ending and running to baseball practice, I completely forgot to take a picture!)

They can fight like cats and dogs sometimes, and then other times, they are so sweet

I cringe every morning that I hear "Mommy, I help put on makeup" (which means, she wants to put makeup on herself). She no longer is satisfied with my old stuff. She wants the good new stuff. Especially anything dark. Then I have to spend 30 minutes trying to scrub 14 layers of smoke eye shadow and dark red lipstick off before school.  

Ready for church

Getting ready for Halloween!

We carved our pumpkins from the pumpkin patch

Happy Halloween!

The iPad was the chosen prop for the next few mornings

Part of her dramatic monologue was removing her sweater 

Day 2 for this prop

Prop this morning was 5 of her miniature princesses

Before we left this morning, she told me she needed her glasses and phone

One day when we were running errands, I kept catching her dancing in front of mirrors

I think she likes mirrors....

She was so good while we were shopping, so I took her for her first trip to Claire's. I went in to buy her 2 things. But they had a deal buy 3 things, get 3 things free. So $30 dollars later, we had about $5 worth of junk that she has already lost.

She picked some new shopkins

And all the jewelry

One of them is excited for church. The other is not.

This was the response I got when I asked her if I could take her picture

But she perked up to hide in the foyer closet

Our friends left some of their toys on our back patio over the weekend and Hollon happily claimed them as her own

Brother got a basketball goal and sister is so frustrated she can't reach it

Jake started basketball this week

And that's a wrap!

Auburn v/s Ole Miss

The next week, we were back in Auburn for the Auburn Ole Miss game. Usually our tailgate is ALL BOYS. This tailgate, it was all girl!

Sister's first game without brother

Where was Jake? At his first sleepover. His friend Turner was having a sleepover for his birthday. Normally I won't let Jake attend a sleepover, if we were not in town, but the parents are some of our good friends and promised it would be fine. (The sleepover was Friday night, but we couldn't pick him up until late Saturday.) Jake had an absolute blast.

They attended the Pelham High School football game Friday night

Kristy & Andrew (the parents) reported back that there was a lot of poop, burp and fart jokes and discussions

And then basically they adopted Jake as their child on Saturday until we could make it back.

Auburn v/s MS State

My blogging record went from bad to worse. As I was just a few posts away from catching up, the hard drive on my computer started to die. Then that started a 2 week process of it coming back to life, almost dying again, new hard drive ordered, new hard drive delayed postal delivery, trip to corporate office, which had to be postponed twice, finally made it up, computer still acting crazy with new hard drive, which resulted in them just giving me a new computer. It has been some long last few weeks. 

Way back (gulp!) at the end of September, we were in Auburn for the Mississippi State game. Jake's best friend's parents went to Mississippi State, so their family is big State fans. They got tickets for the game and spent the day tailgating with us. 

  

They have a little baby girl that Hollon loves, that they left with grandparents. Hollon was very disappointed Maddie wasn't at the game. 

Hollon & I were staying at the RV during the game, but we still walked with everyone down the stadium.

They stayed for a while after the game, before heading back to Birmingham

And this girl just entertained herself

After Braden and his family left, Jake was OUT

Hollon was NOT

She caught her second wind around 10:00, and was up until around midnight😩