Last Day of Summer Tradition/First Day of School

 Fancy nails ready....

Oh my goodness... I have TWO BABIES AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL!!! 

6th Grade... here she COMES!

Big girl on campus... 8th grade and last year at MMS

They were both excited but Miss B got a little teary-eyed when they were leaving because she was not riding with me...and it was a different routine... but she WAS happy to be riding with Daddy and her sister... I think she is going to be GREAT!

and as is our tradition... we hit up Shaker Pond before this one left to go back for her 5th year...

Twins...💕

I love these three...

A great start to what we PRAY will be a WONDERFUL school year....

You never know....

 When you are going to head out your front door with scraps for the chickens and be met with a PIG. IN MY YARD. 

I quickly kept Barkley in the house and went outside. Hindsight being what it is... I should have taken my scraps and put the pig in the chicken pen but I didn't know... and oh... did I mention... I was HOME ALONE? I mean this stuff NEVER HAPPENS when Husband is around....

I tried to shoo her down my driveway and she headed STRAIGHT for the garden... I mean we didn't grow MUCH this year but I certainly wasn't willing to let her get anything that MIGHT be in there. 

I tried calling Husband... a million times... I tried calling ALL the parents I had phone numbers for that were also at soccer practice and NO ONE answered their phone... I finally called Heather and she answered the phone by saying "do you have a pig in your yard?" I hollered back... WHAT HAPPENED TO NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH! YES I HAVE A PIG... I had grabbed a random 2x4 on the way down the driveway to "encourage" her to keep moving away from me... and Heather came out of her house to "help". We had no idea WHO the pig belonged to... but managed to get her all the way to the end of our dirt road... Heather and I got a good giggle over the fact that new neighbors moved into the end of our road and here was the welcoming committee.... two middle aged women with a 2x4 and a PIG. Welcome to the hood. 

Miss B's Birthday Party

Oh my goodness this girl is 11! We celebrated her and celebrated her and CELEBRATED HER! The annual family photo at her bday party... in the rain....

I miss holding them for photos... *Sniff*

It was a super small crew this year but she didn't seem to mind too much...

Minnie was happy to have Nyah there :) 

TiTi's pool is always a HIT!

This sweet girl is PERFECTION in our family. She makes us all laugh, she's tough as nails, and to be loved by her is MAGIC.

HAPPY 11th BIRTHDAY MISS B!

 

State Track Meet ~ Spoiler Alert: GIRLS WIN!!!

We headed 1.5 hours NORTH on Saturday AM at 6:15 for the gals to compete in the State Track Meet at Cony. Sleepy and excited all at the same time!

We got there... set up... bathroom break and it was hit the ground running... pun totally intended. Miss B and Minnie doing BOTH their favorite events at the EXACT.SAME.TIME. Miss B had shot and almost as far away as you could get Minnie had javelin.

I literally RAN back and forth trying to see everything.... I missed one throw each out of their four...

but Miss B and I BOTH made it back for Minnie's WINNING THROW....SHE KILLED IT! She had an 8 FOOT PR! Husband was standing next to me and said "that was a great throw.... that was a GREATTTTT THROWWW!!!" I thought it looked like the other two I had seen but that's why they pay him the big coaching bucks ;)

Because they did live results she ended up hearing from someone walking behind she and a friend "so and so came in 3rd... and Siena Carbone WON" she turned around and said I did!?!?!? It was a girl she had done private coaching with and she said "oh hi! yeah! you WON!" SO FUN!

I had seen the live results on my phone and *might* have cried....but I didn't know if SHE knew so Rebecca and I called over to the tent area and I asked her to come see me at Miss B's jav...as soon as she got close to me I KNEW she KNEW... I muckled onto her!! So so SO PROUD!

It was a beautiful day for a track meet and to watch the gals compete...

The season is LOONNNGGGG but the gals love it and it is so fun to be with our Trailblazer fam.

And... to finish out the day... Husband was called to "the red tent". Not a place you want to be called as a coach... BUT this time... he was handed a stack of patches... his Mustang Trailblazer Girls WON.THE.ENTIRE. MEET. SO SO proud.... of him as a coach building this program, the girls team and how they performed,  and so excited for what he has coming up to his Varsity team. It definitely makes him EXCITED!

Meanwhile... while we were enjoying the competition this guy was living his very best life at Doggie Disneyland... That's his new BFF Rip....

He met his dad... and they actually got along well... this was the initial meet and greet...

If this isn't the sign of a happy puppy I don't know what is...

We were so thankful to Brya for agreeing to keep him for the day and he had a WONDERFUL TIME! Exhausted but WONDERFUL!