Happy 11th Birthday Cort!
Top Left: Happy birthday to my extravert Cort! He loves all the fidgets he got for his birthday and he loves spending time with his friends. We took the kids to Nickle Mania and they had a good time. Top Middle: Kent was doing a good job of winning tickets for the kids with this silly game. Top Right: Brynlee West and Cort with the gift she brought him. Bottom Left: Dylan Radicliffe and Cort with this awesome fidgets including a magic snake...did I mention he loved the fidgets. Bottom Left Middle: Kent waiting on his winnings for the kids tickets. Bottom Right Middle: Jomei Green and Cort with a very cool Harry Potter Lego toy. Bottom Right: Cort showing off his magic snake. We had these as kids and loved them!
Braxton and Marshal
Fall Achievements
I love to celebrate my children's successes. Marshal earned Student of the Month for Accountability and Braxton made the honor roll with a GPA of 3.86. I am very proud of their hard work. All my boys continue to excel in life.
Life in November
Top Left: Marshal with his dog. Top Middle: We're doing something different. Marshal decided to wanted to try out basketball. This is our first kid to try out basketball at the rec league. Top Right & Bottom Right: Had to document my curls. Bottom Left: I always like to honor my dad for his service on Veterans Day. I am proud to be the daughter of a Vietnam Veteran. Bottom Middle: Cort found a burrito that looked like the back of an envelope.
He took my phone and this is what I found on it later. lol
Top Left: Marshal is enjoying playing chess these days. Top Middle: Kent made a yummy looking lemon meringue pie. Top Right: Marshal is crazy. He is adamant that bread and mayonaise/miracle whip makes a delicious sandwich. Bottom Left: I made a yummy squash (like pumpkin) pie for Thanksgiving dinner. Bottom Middle: Doesn't ever date night end up at the store to purchase shells???Bottom Right: Marshal had something funny to say and, unfortunately, I forgot to write it down.
Cort on a Crazy Cart.
Top Left: I'm pretty sure learning that the guy you happend to go to Prom with, is now a scripture scholar, means you are getting OLD! Top Middle: Kent smoked some bird for us. So yummy!
Top Right: Kent and I drove Braxton to Heber to an FSY party and we were missing the Iron Bowl so we watched the ESPN app on our phone to stay up to date on the game. Unfortunately, Auburn lost. Bottom Left: More yummy smoked meat! Bottom Middle: I liked this cool quote. Bottom Right: We were laughing at funny games we found on the internet.
Beautiful World
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive.” – Harold Whitman
“You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise Hay
“You may not control all the events that happen to you,
but you can decide not to be reduced by them.”– Maya Angelou
“I’m the one that’s got to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”– Jimi Hendrix
