Kaylee's First Soccer Game for the 2009 Fall Season

Practice time

GG came to see Kaylee play.

Little cutie!

Look at her go!

GOAL!

September 13, 2009

Kaylee plays for Birmingham United's Sunday Soccer program. They play for 4 Sundays with a 30 minute practice and a 30 minute game. It is easy and she loves it! She is on the red team. Kaylee is a great little soccer player - she gets in there and gets the ball from anyone then takes it down to the goal to score! She scored 4 goals during this game.

Clayton's First Soccer Game of the 2009 Fall Season

September 12, 2009

Clayton plays soccer for Birmingham United Soccer Association. He is number 20 again this year. The team lost by one point in the last minute of the game, but played really good! Clayton loves to play and is doing a great job out on the field!

Happy Birthday to Us!! Aug 30 & Sept 2

Happy Birthday to us! Mom's is on the 30th of August and mine is on the 2nd of September. Every year we get together to celebrate. This time around, my parents came to B'ham and we enjoyed a few days of eating out and celebrating. I even got us a Dairy Queen Butterfinger ice cream cake - yummy!

Mud Buddies

August 22, 2009

It has rained so much here in Birmingham that we have a mud puddle, and guess who found it? Yes, Clayton and his mud buddy, Izzie. They had so much fun and are so muddy!!

Kaylee Cuts Her Own Hair!!!!!

August 20, 2009

Kaylee was upstairs playing in the playroom and said, "I found some scissors and accidentally cut my hair." WHAT??!!?? I was not very happy at all! We had a long talk and immediately went to Paris Hair Salon to have it "fixed". This little Tinkerbell cut is what we ended up with. She does not like it all and has decided she wants it long again, so now, we will be waiting patiently...for a while...

Kaylee's First Day of Preschool ~ August 19, 2009

Kaylee's first day of 4 year old preschool at Brookwood Baptist Church. She has her same teacher as last year, which she is thrilled about! Ms. Katie even let her take her baby doll into class with her. This is Kaylee's last year before going to Kindergarten next year...boo-hoo!

Clayton and Nicholas' First Day of School ~ Aug. 18, 2009

August 18, 2009 ~ First day of school for Clayton and Nicholas. Clayton is now in 4th grade with Mrs. Waldrop as his teacher and gets his own locker for the first time ever! Nicholas is in 2nd grade with Mrs. Holt as his teacher. This year, Clayton will have his own MacBook laptop to keep in his classroom (provided by the school) and Nicholas will have a mini PC laptop to start learning keyboarding and to do powerpoint presentations. They are very excited about this!

First Day of Ballet/Tap Class ~ August 17, 2009

The boys were not in school yet, so they had to come with me to take Kaylee to her first class.

Kaylee is taking a class at The Dance Factory that is 30 minutes of ballet and 30 minutes of tap. She LOVES it! She comes home showing off her moves all the time - especially the tap moves. The class runs all year long and in May, she will perform in a recital.

Golden Flake Factory Tour ~ August 12, 2009

Today, we went with the Gaylard's and the Collat's to tour the local Birmingham Golden Flake Factory. It was very interesting to learn how their different products are made. We got to taste cheese puffs, cheese curls, regular potato chips, and BBQ Pork rinds - all were fresh and hot off the line. Those freshly cheesed puffs were melt in your mouth delicious! Then they sent us off with lots of free chips - great for lunches next week at school.

Gulf Shores, AL - Last trip of the Summer

At the Beach Club in Gulf Shores, AL

Grandma, Papa, and the kids- watch out for the shark!!

Clayton driving his race car at the Track

Kaylee rode with Daddy and Nicholas was not tall enough to drive, so he rode with Papa.

Putt Putt at the Track

The Hole in one Club!

And another one,

And, another one!

Playing at the pool.

Eating at the Shrimp Basket with the King's.

Playing in Perdido Key, FL with the King's and our new raft.

August 7 - 11, 2009 ~ Gulf Shores, AL

Kaylee stayed a week at my parents and then agreed to meet us in Gulf Shores to drop her back off to us. The first two days, the beach had a red flag posted and there were lots of jellyfish, so did not get to play in the water. The next day was yellow flag and lots of jellyfish, so we went to the Foley Outlet Mall and to the Track to ride Race cars and play putt-putt. We also drove out to Perdido Key, FL to meet our friends the King's for dinner. We loved their beach so we crashed in on our last day - no jellyfish! We had a good time all together!