Halloween Things

 October was a fun month!  

We visited the pumpkin patch with the Morris crew, which is a favorite tradition.  This year we had a new punkin, beautiful baby Annabelle!

We carved pumpkins with the Loddes on Halloween afternoon!

We were excited that we still got to trick-or-treat this year.  We had a butterfly, a glow in the dark stick figure, and a pirate! :)

Here is Reid's costume in the dark...

Cute cousins in costumes!

GK really wanted me to dress up this year, so we decided to match! 

Our trick-or-treat crew!

Back to School 2020

Like everything else in 2020, "back to school" looked different for us this year!  Towards the end of the summer, when we still had no idea what the upcoming school year would look like, we made the decision to withdraw Reid and Georgia from Katy ISD and homeschool them for the time being.  I was equal parts excited and terrified about homeschooling, but I have to say, it's been a really great experience for us!  I think I will always look back on this little window of time getting to teach my kids and be thankful for the opportunity.  I hope to document our homeschool experience more soon!  I am also thankful that Rhett gets to have his last preschool year!  Preschool is the sweetest time and I am so glad that he gets to have a mostly normal year.  

 Our little elephant was so excited to go see his classroom and meet his teachers!

                                                   

Mrs. Nessen and Mrs. Hudspeth are AMAZING teachers!  He's already having the best year with them!

After 6 months off, the first day of school was finally here! 

I can't believe it's our baby's last year of preschool!

These two cutie cousins are SO happy to be back in the same class!  

I started easing us into our homeschool routine towards the end of August, but we officially kicked off 2nd and 3rd grade on Rhett's first day of preschool.  

Summer 2020

 Just like everything else lately, our summer hasn't exactly been "normal", but I think we would still all say that it was a good one!  Colorado was definitely the highlight for all of us, but we managed to have some other fun too! :)

We had really missed our beloved Alicia's during the 3ish months that we stayed away from restaurants.  We've taken the kids back a few times now and we needed to document our reunion. ;)

We were given the piano from my aunt's house that originally belonged to my great-grandmother Meemaw.  Guinny came over to help us get acquainted with it.  Reid and Georgia have started lessons and they are both really enjoying it so far! 

There is a cute story behind this cat.  When Guinny was showing Georgia pictures on google of similar pianos (before we picked it up from my aunt's house) there was a picture of one with a cat by it.  Georgia asked, "It comes with a cat?!"  Guinny thought that was so cute, so she ordered Georgia a cat named Peachy for our piano. :)

We took a Preston family getaway to the Hill Country and had lots of fun!

These brothers both played baseball all summer.  We thought our spring season was cancelled, but the league decided to just postpone it.  It was HOT, but also fun to have something to do.  

We had the very BEST coaches this year!!! :)

Georgia didn't get to go to dance for almost 3 months, but they ended up getting to have a couple of virtual classes and a parking lot recital toward the end of June!  The girls did great and we loved the costume this year!

We celebrated the Fourth of July with our friends who moved to Germany in December but were back visiting for a couple of weeks!  

We celebrated our favorite niece's birthday in June...

and our favorite nephew's birthday in July!

The kids worked so hard to make my birthday special and it was the sweetest day!

Alli and I took the kids to paint ceramics at the end of the summer and it brought back memories from our childhood! :) 

Mumsie and Popsie hosted a cousin sleepover (with all 5 grandkids!) to wrap up the summer!  

And of course, we've had LOTS of pool time the last several months!