School Days

Summer went waaay too fast! Here we are with these cuties going off to the first day of school. Hazel is going to love 6th grade!!

K, T & L are ready for their new year too! They look adorable in their uniforms.

And of course, Beckham and Lily are too grown up for these school day pictures! Bahaha! They’re happy to be the free folks, for a few weeks anyway.

Oh, my goodness, I wish we could slow it all down. I want to just hold these people still long enough to get a good, hard, loving look at them before they flit off to their future.

Doesn’t seem so long ago that these school kids were not grandkids…but myyyy kids….who are, of course, all grown up now.

But I still remember clearly the magical smell of new notebooks and pencils, and erasers –from their childhood…

and from mine.

Still gives me goosebumps.

 

 

Our Cute Kids

Here’s our Miss Chomp at work, smiling away behind the eclairs. How can she help it–honestly?

But wait–who have we here? Why it’s our sweet Lily!

And who’s in the back there?! Could that possibly be our Beckham too?

Holy smokes!! No wonder they are all smiling. I can’t even imagine how much fun they must be having–all three of these guys working together!

Beckham even made my sandwich! Yummm.

Service with a smile from the cutest kids I know….

who have been family and friends…

for positively ever.

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

 

 

How On EARTH?!

Honestly, wasn’t this just yesterday?!

Somehow, while we weren’t looking…

we got here.

So incredibly proud of these two sweet, smart, wonderful kids.

It all goes by so crazy fast.

But the love has always been the same, from there to here.

With all my heart and with all the next big, beautiful steps…

Beckham and Lily…

I love you.

Grammy

 

This Cute Soccer Guy

 

Oh, this awesome guy. He is so good at this beloved game.

This kid ‘s been able to do something that he loves with passion and intensity for most of his life.

All the work, all the practice, all the long hours, all the practice, all the injuries, all the practice, all the recovery time, all the practice—

has helped make him the awesome guy that he is today–on the field and off.

And even though this is the view I usually get–(my poor Grammy eyes!) and  I often have to be told what’s actually happening moment by moment…

still…

I do know incredible when I see it.

along with everybody else.