Belle's first Homecoming

These young ladies have been friends for a long time and make the perfect trio always at church.   And they all decided to dress up and have their own homecoming event together.   I can't say that I truly understand this new trend of dressing up and going out as "Homecoming" even tho it may be a Friday or Saturday, and may not even been associated with homecoming week.   But, I guess a chance to buy a pretty dress and go out with friends is good enough to call homecoming.   

The girls had a good meal, then went to Breakout Birmingham, where they came home laughing about all the crazy things happening in that room.   Belle had apparently found a gun early in the room, and kept trying to shoot things around the room, when suddenly she hit the right target shooting at a random picture, causing a skeleton to pop out of a coffin.   This prompted a crazy series of overreactions, where Belle hit the floor screaming, Linley fell on top of her screaming "I am not dying alone", then Sarah Beth jump onto both of them screaming.   Magan jumped up on the table screaming along with them.  Elizabeth and Ashley, the sane mothers, continued to get the new clues within the coffin.   

Then later Magan and Belle said that Mrs. Ashley karate kicked a closet door open because she was scared of another skeleton in the closet.   Then she started reading one of the clues which was in gibberish, making all the girls think she was being possessed.   And finally they came to the last clue that required a key, and Ashley suggested they use the same key from one of the first clues, and it worked, confusing the breakout people, who called on the phone and said that was not supposed to happen.   But the team of girls and moms figured out the last clue anyway and broke out with time to spare.   

So I will write to my Belly Boo, and she knows all this because I told her during this crazy dress finding time.   She is so beautiful, and has grown into a sweet and wonderful girl.   My favorite picture is the third one down with your beautiful curls, and your cute dad-approved purple dress.   You remind me so much of your mom, and I can't wait to see all that you will do one day.   I love that you still hug me, and our fun tickle battles where you always win because I am weak.   But it will hurt one day when you leave your dear old dad...so I cherish each moment we have...even if it is currently a shared love of the night monsters from "From".  

 

Summer has come and passed, the innocent can never last...

So what was happening this month...Davis changes his own front brakes, then after removing the back at CTEC, found that Amazon had shipped the wrong pads for the back, so he got free rotors, just had to get the right pads for the back.   Hoping Mr. Irwin will let him do it at CTEC, as he said doing them on his own at Brandon's was a pain...Marcia finally had birthday day with magan, since Magan forgot to call or even write on her birthday missing it this year...We had small group over at our house this month, but I told everyone that we had graduated to a medium group...Sam came home for a weekend, and we all just sat around taking turns talking to him.   He got his momma to cook him some banana nut bread.   And he hung around on a Sunday evening long enough to watch Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with us, which was surprisingly good to me...A school lunch with Ruby, where we had mountain dew and mcdonalds snuck in with my cooler...Fun with kid's class on wednesday nights thru this month...getting a train out of claire's hair was fun, only pulled a few...A quick visit with Tanya while visiting with MawMaw at the hospital.   Tanya called the picture below an attack of the aunts...Shower repair is still ongoing this month...Picking dresses for Anabelle for Homecoming was a crazy mess, as the fall has a whole "Prostitute-theme" that all the young girls are trying to meet.   Luckily, after some "healthy discussions" with my bride, we found a really pretty purple dress, which will probably be featured in next months blogs.   And I am happy that our little girl did not follow the theme other parents posted of their girls...Ruby completed her first puzzle ever of 250 pieces...and I did catch a few crazy outfits of Davis and Belle for Homecoming dress up week.  

There are some pictures below of Davis on his 4 wheeler.   He was asked to bring it to an Eagle scout project work day, and the leader said it was very helpful, as Davis could load up the trailer and drive the long distance down the bike trail to where they were hanging up owl houses.  Everything was going fine on the way out, then on the way back, Davis said there was a small rock hill that he went over, and had to give a little gas to get over...when he did he said he quickly saw sky, then the 4 wheeler was on top of him.   He was able to get out from under the 4 wheeler, the backpack he had on saving his back and his helmet saving his head.   When the adult leader made it up to him, he said Davis was in shock a bit, but only had a few scratches.   The rigged up wagon behind him completely broke the handle, and Davis handle and brakes was completed shattered.   But he was OK, and it made for a fun story the next day at scout meeting.   

If you see the picture below of Ruby in her school picture, you may miss her at first.   I know we all did, then jumping off the page to the left is Ruby standing awkwardly on a stool.   We all got a good laugh at this, and still have no idea why the photographer stood the class like this, but oh well, she looks much taller.   

Magan went up to Huntsville to help watch the girls while Marcus had a procedure.   And because Marcus and Emily were unavailable, and no other family in town, Eloise got to invite Magan to Grandparents day.   She said that while Eloise was excited for her to be there, and did get the picture with her, she really just wanted the donut.   And Magan said one lady did ask her "Are you really her grandmother".   Haha...I guess we are old enough now...which is weird.   

And lastly, Sam was able to attend one of the most hyped games so far of 2024, the Georgia Alabama match up.   It was a sold out crowd of over 100,000 people, and everyone wanted to watch that game.   Even President Trump sat in a protected booth just slightly above Sam's head during the game.   Trump was joined by the Alabama Senators, Kid Rock, and Hank Williams Jr.    That guy hangs out with the weirdest group of people...and now Sam is part of that group.   The game was amazing to watch with some really great plays.   And it came down to a last second interception.  Easily an instant classic like so many of the Georgia Alabama games.   Sam showed us pictures of the entry security into the stadium, and it was up the street.   Pretty crazy, but glad he has some amazing moments in Tuscaloosa.