Boys Will be Boys...

Nothing but mud, sticks and some furry friends...and PRESTO...smiles for days.  It's amazing how easily intrigued our counterparts are when at the farm.  Okay, I admit, us mommas were too (that day)...but we don't need to admit that to the boys now do we?  The girls, on the other hand, blend right in.  I think some of their girly genes got a tad confused in utero:)!

Check out our cute little ones!!

Always in search of a good stick!

Bottoms Up

Sweet Charlie

Like Father, Like Son

Wheeler!!!

Tillie's ensemble just cracks me up.  Hearts, polka dots, red boots and girly camo...
Anything goes at the farm!

The Wetter, The Better 

This just might be my favorite shot of all time!  My heart bursts for Big Hunt when I see him at the farm with his boy!!  

One of my all time favorite weekends... Come back soon,  Moss's! 

We love you guys!!! 

And, here's to the big boys...and those furry friends.

 Nice buck, Eddie!

Merpeople and the Ever Changing Goldie

A fun Halloween week is always followed by spooky attitudes, ghastly drama and horrific behavior at our house.  Not sure if it's the sugar or the sugar, but it sure does a number on these little ones. It's like they went to bed Amelia, Tillie and Hunt and woke up "in character"...and I won't mention the characters that come to mind;).  Glad I've got a whole year to recoup!

On a more positive note, we did have a super fun week!  We managed to squeeze in the girl's Fall Festival, Spirit Week and Halloween parties at school, AND the neighborhood hayride and bar-b-q...all before ringing the first door bell!

Getting Jiggy with Mrs. Hayden and friends.
Pajama Day

Camo Day

Merladies and the Inattentive Goldfish

The Stick-Collecting Goldfish

The Hungry Goldfish...eating his fellow Goldfriends

The Preoccupied Goldfish

The Chocolate-in-Both-Hands Goldfish

The Tuckered Out Goldfish

Tillie's new little buddy, Captain America

We love V!!!

Got our hair did at the Fall Festival!

Faces, too!

Vampires have fangs AND tongues... Who knew?

Boo!
Mama got crafty

Next year we are going to have Protein Week preceding Halloween Week in attempts to counteract the mass influx of sugar.  Will keep you posted!

Autumnal

-of or relating to Autumn

Heard this word from a friend for the first time a couple years back.  I just think I sound so intellectual and interesting when I use it.  So...I use it A LOT...around my kids that is.  They seem to be the only ones I can convince that I am, indeed, intellectual AND interesting. Ha!

Getting to the point...we Treadwells had a very Autumnal weekend here in the Mid-south.  Crisp weather, bonfires, corduroy AND a pumpkin patch.  Yes, we made our annual trip to the pumpkin patch.  This year it was Cedar Hill Farms in Hernando, MS as opposed to our beloved Hayden, AL Patch...tear.  Super impressed with this little farm, though.  Our visit included pony rides, hayrides, zip lines, a giant corn maize, homemade pumpkin donuts and, to top it all off, a piggy race...double Ha!  I'm not sure who enjoyed the day more , the kids or the adults!

Happy Autumn, y'all!

Piggy Races!!

In the moment!

 

Doing her thing!

Never too old!

Hunt and mini-Hunt

 

My biggest kid!

Billy Goat Gruff & the Autumn Princess!

That's all folks!

OCHO

Last weekend was the hubs and my 8th Anniversary.  EIGHT...ocho...two-away-from-ten!  C.R.A.Z.Y!!!
Where has it gone?
Being back in Memphis made this anniversary feel very different than others.  In a weird way, this one felt like our first all over again.  Maybe it's being in a new home together with family and friends acting as gracious and supportive as they were in our newlywed days...or, maybe it's that every street in this town has a dating memory attached...or maybe, just maybe it's because we had a night to ourselves sans our three little amigos?!?
Whatever it was, we soaked it up...every last minute until we picked up the kids from my parents the next morning.

We managed to squeeze in a drink before dinner at the Madison Rooftop and caught a Beautiful Bluff City Sunset!  So glad we did this as it brought back sweet memories from our wedding night there and of course, Old Man River sure added to the nostalgia.

Gals, the view up there is AMAZING!  If you haven't been, go!!!

Blessed and thankful to share life with this man!  Here's to year 8 and prayers for many, many more!

Summer in Review

When you don't know where to begin, you just jump in!

In a nutshell, my baby turned ONE...my eldest turned FIVE...and my nest moved Northwest!

In the middle of all that...

My middle love broke a leg.  My married love planned a new career.  I learned Cheerleading.

We sold a house.  We summered in a house.  We rented a  house.
We packed. We unpacked. We repacked.  We unpacked again.

We lived apart. We lived with family. We reunited.  

We started a new school; started a new career; started a new life.

We said "Good-Bye" to our days in AL and "Hello" to new beginnings in TN.

We thanked God for old friends that loved us like family.  We asked God for new friends to welcome us in. 

We stepped out in FaItH. We walk in FAitH. We depend on FAiTh!!!

Quite simply, we flipped the page and started scripting chapter 2.

Here are some illustrations from our story.

Amelia's Sunshine & Lemonade Party

My FIVE Year Old Darling

First Day at CMDS...PK and JK

Tillie's New Classroom

The Purple Leg
& Her Wheels

First Kicks

Harvesters Land Co

Picking Sunflowers at the Farm

Final Picture at 523 Broadway

Final Hoorah with these Special Gals
LOVE!!!

Farewell Dinner with Dear Friends

Final Night Together in Birmingham
Bottega Cafe

Had to End with this Face!!!