Mallory

Mr. Ice Cream & Mr. Jeremy

February 7, 2013

Last fall, I asked Rick if he thought he could get some football players to come read to Mallory’s class, like Devin Gardner or something. Rick asked if I thought Devin could read and I said yes, because he wore glasses. :-)
Anyway, over the next few months, apparently Devin kept checking in with Rick about when he could come read to Mallory’s class. When we saw Devin at Christmas on the bowl trip, Rick & Mallory went to ask him officially if he’d come to her class.
He ended up being able to come last month, and brought Jeremy Gallon (or …

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I’m so exadid

January 8, 2013

Rick has been out of town for a couple of days – and came home today. When he unpacked Mallory’s backpack after school, we found this. So adorable.

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My Snow Angel

January 6, 2013

This girl loves the snow – I don’t remember any other year that she was so excited to throw on her snow pants and boots and go out in the freezing cold. Maybe it’s because it’s still new this season but she loves it.

Carson, Mallory

Christmas Day – 2012

December 28, 2012

Despite my plan to take pictures of the kids opening all their gifts (I think have that plan every Christmas), I again ended up just letting myself sit back and enjoy the moment instead. So alas, I don’t have any gifts of our hotel room chaos.
But here are a couple that I snapped with my iPhone.
Our hotel Christmas tree. I bought this little tree about 10 years ago when my Great Aunt Marion scolded me for not having a tree in my apartment. This year Rick had it set up with the gifts under the tree when we got to …

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Carson, Mallory, video

Beach Party ~ Christmas Eve Style

December 25, 2012

After arriving in Florida on 12/23, there was early practice on Monday (for the players, not the families), followed by a party on the beach (for the players and the families). Seeing as how I’m not a fan of playing volleyball, and ladder golf seemed a little dangerous with Carson, I instead took up a spot next to the middle volleyball court where a huge game had developed. It started with a few kids, but then the football players started joining in.
It was Denard and Frank Clark v Dennis Norfleet and Cam Gordon (each team had other players too but …

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Carson, Mallory

More Daily Picture Outtakes

December 25, 2012

Rick is still continuing his taking pictures of the kids every morning tradition. He still isn’t so great at getting the pictures off the camera’s memory card, so when I finally get around to doing it for him, it’s always hysterical to see what goes on next to the giant ruler in the kids’ bathroom every morning.
Here some recent outtakes. We have some pretty funny kids.

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Arlo the Elf

December 13, 2012

Our elf has gotten pretty sassy this holiday season. After spending a week or so quietly hanging out on top of our Christmas tree and on top of our blinds – he has started to get naughty.
First – he took the dry erase marker from our fridge and drew all over the pictures in our hallway.

Mallory then started writing letters to Santa and Arlo.

The other morning I came downstairs and found this. Arlo had taken the toilet paper from the bathroom and totally tee-peed our first floor (see him with the end of the tp on top …

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The Bus

December 6, 2012

The bus…as in being thrown under one.

Thanks, Mallory.

Mallory

Thanksgivin-g

November 29, 2012

Mallory brought this home yesterday. I love her.
Notice her use of hyphens at the end of the word thanksgiving (twice).
Ignore that she spelled her own name wrong at the end, and the multiple other errors. She is grounded this weekend for those. I’m totally kidding.

Carson, Mallory, video

Catching up ~ August 2012

November 25, 2012

OK, I am literally going to write a post to [try to] catch up on the last 3 months. Three months of football season + three months of a bajillion photo shoots = three months of craziness.
Here we go:
We spent lots of summer time at the pool – it helped that it was hotter than hades this summer and that we were able to join Georgetown Country Club this summer.
Carson learned how to swim:

and go off the diving board (he would do this for as long as someone would catch him) – and it’s fun to go back and watch …

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