Thursday, August 28, 2014

Daytime Without My Sisters Is Like...

 Oh no!  Lilly Anna go to schoowl?  Jacky no schoowl?
 Oh, I get it - Jacky go to schoowl free days?   What mammy do wif no Jacky?  No Lilly Anna?  Mawmy sit around all day and shop on the pooter and walk around the house 512 times and talk about what a mess it always is?
 Mawmy, mawmy, mammy wait, wait, wait - Ironman NOT CRAZY!
 What over dere?  Airplane!
Yeah, I'm like the cutest kid ever.  Sorry, girls.  I'm mammy's little man!
Love,
Lilly, Anna Jane, and Jack

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

School's IN!!

 Woo hoo!  School is IN!  Two down, ONE to go!  Ha!  Just kidding!  We want time to SLOW DOWN!  But since time doesn't stop for us we are going to revel in every precious moment!  Our Meet the Teacher Night was SUPER exciting!!
 I found out we hit the jackpot twice!!!  I got -
 MRS. BOLT AND MS. HORTIS!!!  MAURER ROUND TWO!!!!  YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!!!!!!
 Dig it.  Mrs. Bolt is going to love me 'cause I'm kinda sorta just like her...  HAVE FUN MRS. BOLT!!!!  HAAAAAAAAA HAAAAA HAAAAA!!!!!
 And in the other corner, weighing in at Adorable and So Big - I get to start in a whole new hallway (the first and second grade hall!) with Ms. Morgan (who's student teaching from Clemson - Go Tigers!) and...
 Anna Jane?  Anna?  Wait, what?
 Here we go - Mrs. Spence!  She is sweet and she is country, y'all.  I love her.  She's so fun - she's having a baby around Thanksgiving!
 Here we are on our real first day of school.  Yeap - I'm wearing the same shirt I wore last year (reduce, reuse, recycle!) and Anna Jane is wearing a little romper that Babi made for Teti!  Isn't it awesomedorable?!?  She paired it with her pink sparkle Toms #fashionforward
 #BFF!

 #Precious

 Time!! Slow down for a minute!
 Sweetest big sister in the world - holding brother and sister's hands and walking little sis to her class.
 Ready for a great year!
Yay for school!
Love,
Lilly, Anna Jane, and Jack

Thursday, August 14, 2014

#Maxxinista

 Look what Mama found at TJ Maxx in South Carolina, y'all!!  A baby Michigan jersey!  They even had them in pink but she exercised a little self restraint and only bought one (you're welcome, Daddy!)
Personally, I'm not sure how I feel about this.  What is a South Carolina boy doing wearing a Michigan jersey?  Why do my Mommy and Daddy cheer for Northern teams with ugly colors (let's face it - the only worse color combination is red and gray)?  Where's my Clemson jersey (they didn't have any - I instead got an adorable Clemson track suit - you're welcome, Jack!)  Why does Mommy insist on Kentucky during basketball season (with U of L as our ACC fallback?)  It's all too confusing.  I don't even know who to cheer for.  All I do know is this - GO FOOTBALL!
Love,
Lilly, Anna Jane, and Jack

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

And a Few More...

 Why does Mama always forget to post about ME!?  Since I'm the baby in the house shouldn't I be the NEW star of the show?  I mean, come on - 6 years old is so 2013 - 2 is in the house!  Little Man, here!
 You get it, don't you, Duda?  That's what I'm talking about.  Enough with the girls!
 Let's give it up to the two who started this whole M----- family party in the first place!  What?  What?  Mommy and Daddy!  Complete with color coordinated tie!  Definitely Mommy bought that special for the wedding!

Girls!  The girls are in the house!
And, in case you missed it - the WOMAN who got the whole wedding party started!  Give it up for Princess Teti!!!  Love you, Teti!
Love,
Lilly, Anna Jane, and Jack

Sister Lovin'

 Cheers!  Teti is (finally!) a married lady!  And WE got to celebrate it up in style with her!  This is mostly a photo dump - we have over 250 pictures from the big day but we REALLY want to wait to post the good ones we know her photographer got!
 These pictures were from Teti's bridesmaids' breakfast.  Like our dresses?  They were hers!  Babi made them and she wore them when she was a little girl!  Isn't that precious?  Isn't it also precious that they coordinate?!  Doesn't Teti look so happy in this picture?  She was SO excited for her big day!!  (Little did she know at the time she would be upstaged by Anna Jane on the dance floor - more on that in a later post!)
 Because we were flower girls and we are super awesome and Teti loves us to pieces we got sweet matching kimonos we wore to get ready on our - I mean, HER - big, big day!
 Adorbs!
 Sister love!  Auntie Kimber love!
 More-dorable sister love!
 Babi love!
 We even got to get our herrrr did like the grown up gals!  We got to pay as much as the grown up gals, too!  Since Mama forgot to bring our wallets she spotted us this time.  We told her to add it to our tabs and we will pay her back by putting her in an upscale retirement home one day.
 Don't you love my braids and curls?!  It took about 2.2 minutes for the curls to totally, utterly and completely straighten out.  Money well spent!
 Do you remember our friend, Miss Kait?  Gosh we love her so much, she's the coolest!  She lives in Hoboken which is just outside NYC.  Since our cousins no longer live there she's our hook up when we go to the American Girl doll store and spend Daddy's monthly income on shopping for crap.  Probably next Fall!  Yay, Miss Kait!
 I think I could really get into this whole getting pampered bit!  Why save it for special occasions like weddings?  Daddy should pay for monthly pampering sessions for his girls!
 Hey, Mommy snuck a selfie in!  'Course it's blurry 'cause she sucks at selfies!
 Much better!  Anna Jane, what's up with that face, dog?
 Maybe if I act silly I can get her to crack a smile?
 Did it and done!
Teti.  WOW.  You looked like a glamorous princess.  Thank you so much for including us in our special day!  I mean, in YOUR special day - 'cause yeah, you owned it!  You looked so beautiful!  We were so shocked Mama was able to hold it together on your wedding day because she DID NOT hold it together during rehearsal.  When she watched you walk up the aisle with Duda you were all of a sudden THIS BIG in her eyes - literally - as big as me.  It was like she was watching the sweet little girl she kissed good-bye when she left for college playing dress up with her clothes - only you weren't wearing Mommy's clothes and you weren't playing!  It's for real!  You're Mrs. P----- now!  A MRS! And pretty soon you could be a Mommy, too!  WHAT?!?!  How does it all happen so fast!?  In a minute we'll be walking down that aisle with our Daddy, too!
We love you so much, Teti.  You're the best sister EVER!  THE BEST!  We love you!  We love you! We love you!  And that guy you married, too - wait, what's his name again?  Oh, yeah!  Ha!  Just kidding Uncle B!
More to come!
Love,
Lilly, Anna Jane, and Jack

Apple Picking at Skytop

 Apple picking at Skytop has got to be one of my most favorite Fall family traditions.  It is so beautiful, it is so fun, and apples for w...