Happy 3rd Birthday Sophie!

Sophie bug is officially three years old! She is so independent, sweet, determined and has a bit of a diva side. :) She has her three big brothers wrapped around her little finger, and loves to have tea parties with them! Sophie is still loving her gymnastics class twice a week, and looks forward to learning new tricks each class. She also started preschool this year, and is loving going to school like a big girl. She loves her teachers, and looks forward to going every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Since her birthday fell on a Wednesday this year, Sophie got to take cupcakes to share with her friends at school! She had lots of fun celebrating at school, and then we had a little celebration at home. We had Mac n Cheese, one of Sophie's favorites... although she would've preferred just having cupcakes for dinner! She opened up her presents, and had a great day of celebration!

Happy Birthday Sophie Grace! 

First Day of School!

Where did the summer go? We had so many fun adventures that it went by so quickly! It was a big start to the school year for everyone. Caleb started 2nd grade, Tyler started 1st grade, Garett started his LAST year of preschool and is going M-F, and Miss Sophie started her first year of preschool, and she's going on M, W, F. They all seemed excited about the school year starting, and it is going pretty well so far! Sophie was SO excited to start going to school like her brothers. Her favorite part seems to be carrying her pink backpack!

Caleb and Tyler's 1st day! 

Caleb's 1st day of 2nd grade!

Tyler's 1st day of 1st grade! 

Extra special treat! Daddy sent us all new shoes for the first day of school! Thanks Daddy!! We love you! 

Garett's 1st day of 4 year old preschool! 

Sophie's 1st day of preschool! Garett showing her the ropes! 

Sophie's Birthday Party!

Over Labor Day weekend we celebrated Miss Sophie's 3rd birthday a few weeks early! She didn't seem to mind! We had some visitors over the long weekend so it seemed like the perfect time to celebrate. One of Sophie's favorite things to do is to have tea parties, so she had a pink lemonade tea party! We had lots of yummy sandwiches, lemonade, tea, veggies, fruit inside of a tea pot watermelon, jello lemons, finger foods and pink lemonade cupcakes! It was so fun and girly, and right up Sophie's alley. It's also no kid party without a craft, so the kiddos made special hats. The girls decorated tea hats for the occasion, and the boys decorated top hats. They turned out very cute. Check out some of the pictures!

party favors for the kiddos

birthday girl enjoying her cupcake! 

Sassy girl not wanting her picture taken!

Pictures of the little diva over the past year

Candy centerpieces

Delicious pink lemonade cupcakes that Mommy made!

Watching everybody sing happy birthday! 

blowing out her candles 

She was really into opening presents this year! 

Oooh!

Loving her ladybug 

Mason jars for the adult drinks- also their party favors

pink lemonade jello lemons

Tea hats & Top hats waiting to be decorated! 

Birthday banner 

one of the kids' favorites- PB&J sandwiches

Sophie's birthday picture with Daddy 

Enjoying the tea party with cousin Lily

Doing "cheers!" in their tea hats :) 

Party food 

Mommy did an awesome job! 

Veggies 

Tea pot watermelon! 

Mini Mud Run

Caleb and Tyler, along with a few friends and neighbors participated in the YMCA Mini Mud Run this weekend! They've been doing some practicing running around the neighborhood, but this race added some obstacles along the way. They both seemed to have fun, especially running with their friends. They also got to enjoy some yummy cupcakes afterwards to celebrate!


The crew ready to run!

Caleb's friend Lilly that he's known since they were born recently moved back to Virginia and I think they took more time catching up than running! :)

                          Tylerman! 

Atlanta

This weekend we set out on our big adventure to Atlanta. While we were there we got to ride the MARTA train, attend a Braves baseball game, visit the Legoland Discovery center, swim at the hotel and we finished out our fun weekend with a yummy lunch at The Varsity. Caleb and Tyler had gone to Atlanta last summer for a Braves game and were looking forward to going again. This was the first Braves game for Garett, Sophie and cousin Lily and they all had so much fun! We had awesome seats on the second row down the first base line. It was a bit intense at some points when it came to foul balls, but we all escaped without a bump in sight, and all three boys ended up getting a ball from the game each to take home! We got to enjoy some yummy treats at the game and of course got to enjoy a Braves win! Since we attended the Friday night game, we also got to enjoy some fireworks after the game was over. While we waited for the fireworks they were showing people dancing on the jumbo tron, and Sophie and Lily got up on there dancing away! They had both been dancing away during the whole game it was so funny. All of the kids were so into the chants and songs, and especially the tomahawk chop-- so cute! It was a late night, but it was so much fun! All the kiddos slept in on Saturday since it was such a late night, but luckily got up before they stopped serving breakfast at the hotel! Once we got up and moving, we went to the MARTA station again to catch our train to our special surprise. All three of the boys absolutely LOVE legos, and Sophie loves her princess duplos, so Mommy knew they would love the Legoland Discovery center. It was a very cool place with a few rides, huge play place, places to build legos, a HUGE display of the fun attractions in Altanta, and of course a store. ;) We spent a lot of time going through every inch of the legoland, and then once the kiddos were satisfied that we had done everything we could, we headed on out to the store for the kids to pick out a treat. They were so excited to pick out a new lego to take home from their trip! Saturday evening we hung out around the hotel and we got to swim. This is one of our favorite activities anytime we stay in a hotel, so we got very excited! We all slept well again Saturday night and got up on Sunday ready to head home. We had one more stop to make before we headed out of town. We went to The Varsity for a yummy lunch. It never disappoints and we left with happy tummies for our drive back to Nana & Paca's. We had a wonderful trip to Atlanta, and hope to do it again next summer!! It will be even better if we can take Daddy along for our fun-- that would've made it even better!

All 5 grandkids in front of the big baseball! 

Caleb and Sophie at the game

Tyler enjoying the game!

Paca and Tyler at the game! 

Nana & Paca with the grandkids

Sophie and Aunt Katie

Sophie doing the tomahawk chop

Paca and Garett on the MARTA

Sophie on the MARTA

Tyler is 6! 

Lily on the jumbo tron

Sophie on the jumbo tron

boys! 

watching the fireworks! 

Turner field in Legos! 

Garett riding with mommy

Caleb and Tyler