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September Days...

Lot of things going on this month, and google has decided this month to be a pain in the butt and put all the pictures below in reverse order...did this in many posts...and man, I hate it when it does that.   But probably no one else even notices.   

OK, so what is happening below.   We have some pretty engagement pictures that I really don't know anything about, but wanted to capture them since I saw them.   We have everyone at home with us for a weekend, and since all were there (including Noel), we had to get family pictures at Mt. Laurel.   Magan got a new fancy remote clicker, and we took so many pictures with that remote clicker, then magan later realized that it only worked like 4 times.   Yeah, she was not happy...but I guess we will see what we got on the Christmas card.   

Picture of the Alabama Welcome Center as I came back from Chattanooga...I am easily won over by a good rest area, and this was very nice.   I was up in Chattanooga working with TVA for the week.  I got to enjoy a Brazilian steakhouse, High Point climbing, and of course, the Tennessee Welcome Center rest area with the lizard mozaics.   

There were a couple of Wedding Showers, where I think Linley and Belle made 150 mini cupcakes for each!!   There was a Baby Shower for Laura Lyle.   There was not a picture of it, but Davis shooting me in the eye with a shower of water, when he thru the hose down after I left the fire burning.   There was pickleball and High School Friends.   Ruby was the student of the week.   Lisa joined us for Galleria and Tortugas (Dad doesn't do well with late planning), World Market and Build a Bear.   There was a morning hike to King's Chair, using the new 280 entrance.   There was a fun visit to Chuck E Cheese, where Ruby felt like she was too big, but I am too, so it doesn't matter when you are having fun beating the Avengers gauntlet game.   And there was a work day at the church, that I really did nothing for...so no credit on that one.

And football has returned at Alabama, this time with both boys working the night crew together at the same lot.   And crazily, Noel had joined in on this fun, and worked two all nighters with the boys.   But I love the boys have this time together.   The first game, they were up in the nosebleed section, but for the other games, they found the other worker entrance that keeps them in the lower level.   They both were capture on the camera that did a full 360 and found everyone in the entire stadium (see if you can find Davis, Sam, and Noel...Noel did not realize the camera picture was being taken).   Davis, Logan, and Rowan actually made it up onto the jumbo screen during the Wisconsin game.      And when not waiting for football, those boys are always studying, but again, I am glad they have each other and Noel to hang out at the library.   

 

Dad Turns 47...or maybe 46

I guess it just starts all seeming the same, but it was nice to have a day working from home.   Magan had forgotten the streamers, then half asleep stumbled around the living room to put up my birthday year of 47.   She was talking (perhaps in her sleep because she completely denies it) about how she turns 46, so I must be 47 this year.   It is strange to me that she denies saying this, as she could never be wrong, even tho the photographs clearly state that she may have messed up.   But I thought is was funny, and Belle and Ruby both thought my 47 was funny as well.   

I love my little card that Ruby made for me.   I really love the Wicked shirt Magan got for me (I think thru Terry Francis).   And I love my new father in law shirt, mainly cause I love my new future daughter in law.   As you can see in the pics, magan did get the streamers up later in the day, and I karate chopped them down.   Me and the girls showed off our flexibility in the living room, always a treat, and always painful for me.   Deidra decorated my office door at work, with a funny card about a snake that could not hold a guitar.   And I think the night before, Magan and I actually went on a date to the movies...Saw "One battle after another", and well...it was a movie.    We did enjoy our time out together.  It was a good day.