September 2025

The calendar somehow just flipped to November. It feels absolutely surreal to think we've now been back in Texas for three months now. Highlights of our September included: the start of the school year at MM, Shelby's birthday, new couches finally arriving!!, lots of marching band, Shelby's first high school orchestra concert, and an Internal Medicine conference for Derek in Virginia Beach.

{after school treats with these two!}

{Hadley was so excited to get a pair of OC earrings to wear to each of Shelby's games!
School spirit, but make it pink!}

{This was the morning before our couches arrived.}

{This is the view we had the first morning we came out of our room after the couches were delivered...Brady was curled up on the couch doing handwork! We were all just so, so happy to have couches in the living room again!}

{Brady has become an expert at catching lizards since we moved back to TX!}

{homeschool in the afternoon}

{our first time back to Duck Donuts after returning to TX}

{annual eye exam}

{these two living their best bleacher/concession stand life at Shelby's games!}

We out for dinner at Olive Garden the weekend after Shelby's birthday & to Barnes & Noble together afterward. It was a fun night!

{family walks look and feel a little different in TX}

{Brady was so happy to receive some surprise mail from G&G}

{Muffin Monday!}