First day of school

The boys started school last week. Hudson is in kindergarten and Chandler is in the 7th grade. Because of all the crappy changes the city schools made this year, they are both at the same school. Most of the schools are K-8 now. They are both doing fine so far but we hope to put our house up for sale by the end of the month and be moved my the first of the year so Chandler can get back to the school all his friends are at. He's playing football and 3 schools combine for that so he's able to see some of his buddies at football practice everyday after school. The first thing Hudson said to me when I picked him up after his first day was, "I didn't go to the Principal's office today." :) He's gotten a green star everyday and his teacher says he listens and follows directions well. I'm glad he's doing great so far. I was a little nervous about him starting with all that goes along with "big school" but so far so good.

This was the day before school started. When I went in his room, he was asleep like this. Pillows on the floor, blanket wrapped around his head. I thought it was pretty funny.




Note: They both got haircuts about 5 days after this. I'll have to post pictures of that cause Chan got his chopped off!

Gulf Shores

I am so late posting this! We were blessed to be able to go the beach the first weekend in August. One of the kids on Hudson's baseball team's parents just bragged all year at what a great job Richard did coaching and how much they appreciated the time our family put into it. She told us they had a condo that they wanted us to use over the summer. We normally wouldn't take someone up on an offer like that but when she called in July and wanted to know when we wanted to go and insisted, we decided to go. Richard didn't get to go with us when we went with my family for a couple of days in June so this was really the only vacation he had. We had a great time and the condo was beautiful! We loved the layout and the way it was decorated! I think the bed was more comfortable than mine at home and that's saying a lot cause I LOVE my bed! I was so proud of Hudson and Richard. Richard normally doesn't swim in the ocean or the pool and he spent a lot of time in the ocean! He and Chandler had boogie boards and that's what they did the most. Richard got Hudson to slowly go out in the water (he loves the pool, not the ocean) and he ended up loving it, too! He started out shallow just jumping over the waves as they would come but then he got braver and even started going under! If any family remembers the gagging and screaming incident from Panama City in June, you should be impressed!



Of course we had to play putt-putt and do the arcade and go-cart thing. I won at putt-putt! It made Richard so mad!! :)

Hudson using the pillows as covers!
Like I said before, Richard doesn't usually get in the water so of course he didn't have any swim shorts. After trying to swim in cargo shorts, he decided to go and buy some. The only sleeveless shirt he could find at the shop he was at was a Corona shirt. How redneck does he look? And I promise, that's an energy drink in that Solo cup!

We had a great family vacation. Thanks very much to the Sellers for their generosity! Richard will have to remember to pick their son next time he coaches :) Just kidding!