Sophie Honor Society 2020

Brains and beauty!

Personality in a picture!

As has become a tradition, all these pretty girls met up for pictures at AC's.  

As beautiful as she is and as proud as I am that she has grades good enough to be in Honor Society, the best part of this day was that Sophie was bold enough to say the prayer at the beginning of the ceremony.  She did a wonderful job and I was super proud of her.  This is a bold thing to do in front of your peers and a lot of people in the stands.  She did great!!! 

I love Jr. High and all that it does.  There are lots of traditions here that have lasted since I was in junior high.  It is special to get to see your girls participate in something you did over 20 years ago.  

I hope sweet Molly gets to sign the same book at that Sade, Sophie, and I did.  

Sophie has been working hard on sharing the gospel.  She is planning on going on a mission trip to New Orleans for spring break and she is way excited about it.  

She came home and showed me what she had been learning and the 3 circles.

It makes me proud.

  She is rocking her senior year, her pledge mistress stuff, her classes, her papers, her friendships, her  life.  

She may not have it all figured out yet, but it makes me proud.  

These girls are growing in their faith.  I can see it.  That is when it is real when someone else can see it and I can truly see it in each one of them. 

It makes me really proud.  

Molly made it to the finals in the spelling bee.  There were two rounds at the primary school with other 3rd graders.  The finals were at the elementary school with 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th graders.  

Molly made it through the first few rounds and she was kicked out with the word brayed.  (Like a donkey noise...she spelled it like a hair braid!.) She was so upset about it.  

She made it a long way and it makes me so proud!

Sadie started teaching gymnastics on Tuesdays and Thursdays at home.  I win because I got to see her two times a week.  Score!!

We celebrated Molly's birthday.

The big 9 years old.  I have tried and tried to get her to stop.  

She won't.  

She loves having birthdays.  

She also keeps promising me that she will always be my baby no matter how old she is.  

Cheer clinic was a success again.  Sophie loves the big cheerleaders.  She loves the cheers.

She loves the dances.  She loves being out there.  

I tried to convince Molly that this was the last year she could participate in the cheer clinic because she wasn't going to be in primary school next year.  She quickly informed me that she knew that you could do the cheer clinic until the 6th grade.  I don't think I'm going to get out of it for a while.  

Look at her..  How can you deny this???

Molly's 3rd grade play.  KDYZ.  Molly was a DJ and she performed! 

She LOVES the stage.  

MeMe drove almost three hours to see her play that lasted about 16 minutes.  

That's true love. 

In fact, she really really wants to be Carrie Underwood's assistant AND to be her fashion designer. If you ask her what she wants to be when she grows up, that is her response!

We also celebrated Halloween.

This little hippie got lots of candy.

Sophie refused to dress up again this year.  I think she feels like I do when it comes to Halloween.

But I did dress up as Lionel Richie.  I was called and asked to be a judge for the high school dance off.  I actually said yes before I knew they wanted us to dress up like judges on American Idol.  

Back to school is in full swing.

At first it is hard to get into the routine.  Molly is loving 3rd grade and her teacher, Mrs. Schwope. 

Sophie is loving being the top dog at junior high and being a freshman.  

We went to the Back to School Bash.  Sophie had to appear with the golf team as they were recognized for their District Championship.  

Sophie finally got involved and participated in all the freshman spirit days.  They had a special day every Thursday for football game days.  She and Sage have become really close and they have been slaying the dress up days!

Sadie got nominated for Homecoming.  The nomination in itself is quite an honor.  

She didn't make the court and she was fine with that.  

Molly was selected as Scrapper of the month.   

As a result of the award, she got to have lunch at her own table.  We were invited to come eat with her and we did.  

Molly and Ava have been friends for a long time.  They love Scrapper Fridays!

Sophie and Sage love Scrapper days too!!

Molly got the Citizenship Award this month.  I'm not absolutely sure what the criteria is for the Citizenship Award, but I know she tries so very hard.  She has loads and loads of drama with some of the girls in her class.  It really bothers her and she talks about it a lot.  (I hate girl drama!! Almost as much as boy drama.)  I hope to be able to lead her through it or at least pray her through it.  Regardless, someone thought that she has been a good citizen, which makes me happy.  Mrs. Schwope brags about her.  She is doing well in 3rd grade and I am super proud of her.  Being a good citizen is something to strive for. 

We got off to a late start with school shopping, so we had to go back after school started.  

I'm not a shopping girl, but it makes it a whole lot more fun when you have fun, sweet, beautiful people to go with you!

College Senior Sadie got herself an on-campus apartment.  I didn't really know what to expect but I was pleasantly surprised when we went to help her move in.  

She gets to live by herself in the cutest one bedroom apartment ever!

MeMe came to help us move, of course.  She's always a big help and makes everything fun.

We had to move half of her things from our house because she brought most of her stuff home when school was out.  She spent this summer in Little Rock working at Peds, so she had some of her stuff there.  So there were two places to have to move her from.  

We left Sadie with a few little things to finish up but I think she was very pleased with how her little space was turning out.  

I am happy happy for her but super sad that this is one step closer to her being out of my house as my little girl.  I have had her under my wing for 20 years.  How do you even do life when she has her very own and it's different from mine?

It's going to take lots of prayers.  I miss her.  

First day of school 2019-2020

9th Grade and 3rd Grade

Sophie--She's a Freshman!!  What?

Molly--Last year of her primary days.

16th grade 

Sadie--College Senior! What??

August brought some fun times.  MeMe's birthday is always something to celebrate. 

We had a birthday party at Trisha's for her birthday this year.  

We had a girls' night at Lois' house.  We couldn't go out of town because Larry got a new job and went to nights.  I couldn't leave town because I didn't want to leave the girls.  

We had fun just hanging out on the back porch.  

Sometimes you have to focus on the little things that make life wonderful.  Sometimes those little times just get lost in the big moments.  Sometimes you just need to get random pictures from a teacher friend of your little sweet one on the playground at Primary School.  

Sophie, and the golf team, got invited to the school board meeting.  This was the first school board meeting I had ever attended too.  She is sad that golf is over.  Basketball practice has started and she said that she would quit basketball if she could just play golf year round.  

Sadie is getting into her senior year.  She is sooo busy.  She lives by a planner and it is filled by times, like an appointment book.  I am glad she is involved.  I am glad that she is having fun.  I am glad that she sends me pictures every now and then.  This is her EEE seniors and there start of their senior year. 

Honor Society 2019

Super proud of this smart girl.

She is smart and beautiful.

She was super excited about this.  

She looked forward to it.

We went with MeMe and found the perfect dress.

This was her very first formal event and she was absolutely beautiful.

I don't like that she is growing up, but when I look at her I see a sweet girl with a precious heart and a gorgeous personality.  

She's gonna do great things!

First day of school 2018

Sadie- Junior year

Sophie-  8th grade

Molly - 2nd grade