We love fall :)

This is by far my favorite season!!!  Football, pumpkins, Ellie's birthday, college applications, Halloween and Thanksgiving, the list goes on and on...  

We have designated Saturdays as "birthday day" bc it feels like we have 2-3 every weekend.  Thankful AU games have been at night so we can cram everything into the day and night.  

We also welcomed the most precious babies, my niece and nephew, the end of August!  Jon and Ashley are doing great and the twins are changing everyday.  We love Alex and Noah and can't wait to get back to Bham to love on them.

I have also been training for my first 5k.  You would have thought I was running a marathon.  My friends and family are sick of hearing about this but it was a personal goal I set in January and JUST now achieved!  Better late than never :). I followed the couch to 5k for 8 weeks and did it exactly as it was planned.  It worked and I completed my first 5k yesterday!  My goal was to run the entire time (achieved) :) but I was SLOW bc I thought I would not pace myself...  Finished in 31:05 so hopefully I will get faster!  

Busy weeks coming up so I hope to update again soon!

Wish we all lived closer...

We were so excited to celebrate Chris and Emily's wedding in Auburn a few weeks back.  Such a fun weekend being in such a happy place - Auburn, and with best friends!  Weekends like this make you realize how much you appreciate your college friends.  These are some of my favorite girls and we always pick up right where we left off...  

Mount Paran

Here we are...  Ellie started what may be "her" real school in just 2 short years.  They offer PK-3 and PK-4... Makes me excited to think that she might be here for the next 15 years (and sad bc I will be working that long to keep her there :)

We had to make a change this year due to restructuring at the CEE - where she has been since she was 3 months old.  While we were so sad to leave her friends and teachers, we were equally as happy to meet new friends - particularly more girls!!!  I can't say enough good about MP.  I remember pre-Ellie visiting MP to recruit for AU and hoping one day to send my own child there.  The students, teachers, administration, parents, etc are just good people.  It's definitely more "school-like" and much more structured which will take getting used to, but Ellie loves it so far and so do we!  

Such a fun weekend

We had such a fun weekend celebrating my wonderful Mom and hanging with our BFFs!  Ellie and Griffin had a great time at the lake despite the water being choppy!