Vikings Belt..

The day after we got back from vacation, Alex had karate belt testing. He was testing for his purple belt decided (purple with a yellow stripe, aka Vikings belt to Alex!).
The entire school tested at our local high school gym:

My little man's up:

Board break time:

Weapons (double bong-munge):

Belt award time:

He earned an honor star:

He did a great job, so proud of him!

The Farm...

It's been a few years since Alex was able to visit the Farm, so I was very excited that we were able to go to Live Oak and visit with our Paw:


Alex "got it" that his MawMaw (pictured below) is Paw's little girl!


Our cousin Heather came by - she couldn't believe how tall Alex has gotten (me either!):

I loved seeing Alex taking it all in:

PawPaw (my dad) took Alex and I out for a spin on the mule to check out the cows and bulls (that's all Alex wanted to see was the bulls and ask if they would charge us!):

This is Maggie, she's such a sweetie with two different color eyes and has been at the Farm for as long as I can remember:

Alex was disappointed that this bull didn't have horns:

This baby was born the day before we got there:

The trees at the farm are amazing:

I love getting to share this happy part of my childhood with Alex!

Old Friends...

We were so lucky to get to meet up with my friend Paula (Pokie!), her husband Greg, sassy-sweet daughter Gracie and frecklie cute son Andrew (Bubba):

I love when Pokie and I get together, it's like no time has passed since we last saw each other!

Goodbyes are SO Hard...

We said goodbye to the island and headed to Tallahassee, but too soon we had to say goodbye to Uncle Stevie, Aunt Jen, Logan and Connor:

We're already counting down the weeks until we get to see them again!