11

 This girl is 11! 11? 11? 7 more years until she is an adult? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

She loves Vanilla Bean Frappes.

The bar is her favorite, and I'm feeling like getting her a bar at home is one of our best gifts yet! #yaygymnastics

We are currently in the era of DEMPSEY-where did you put the shirt/shoes/jacket/flipflops/makeup that you borrowed from me??? AND as much as it drives me nuts when I can't find things, I'm INSANELY grateful that this is my life. SHE is my mini-me so much! 

She LOVES LOVE animals so hard. If we ever have the chance to go check out animals we are there as quick as possible! 

I'm so proud of her growth! She loves to share that she is "shy"...however you can see in an above photo how she was SUPER brave-joined student council and was giving a presentation to 1st graders on gratitude! IF that isn't perfect-I don't know what is!

I was able to go have lunch with her at school for the first time on her birthday this week. She was super happy to have me, and I just want to soak all that in. I know that this won't be always.

We kept the pool open so she could have a birthday party with the pool! It was 86 inside the pool, 50 outside! It was such a fun time for her!

Demps. Love you so much! So grateful you are in our life! 

Love you love love you,

Mom

Alpine

I thought I posted about this awhile ago...but I guess I didn't. 

We introduce you to Alpine Street! 

This is our AirBnB that we worked really hard on. Russ bought it and did a ton, and then when it was summer we joined in. It has been going super well...in fact the current person staying there actually said that this "might be the best place she has ever stayed." 

The kids did so much.....cleaning the roof, opening boxes, preparing bedrooms, unpacking the kitchen, putting together chairs, painting things, putting on new latches, etc.

We are sure proud of this place!

-Mom

Big bro alert

Big bro shoutout!!

The other day AJ had walked down to join Dempsey at the end of school. I was rushing over to get them and then make a stop at the book fair. AJ took it on himself to get Dempsey into the book fair. He then assisted her with finding her books with the hope that she would be all ready to go by the time I got there! It was the nicest thing ever! And the fact that he thought about this all just made me so proud. I quickly snapped a photo!

Every birthday we have a family tradition that everyone makes a card for the birthday person. I went to grab AJ and saw what he read and it made me puddle a bit. So freakin sweet. He’s a really good bro:)

-Mom

Football Sunday

We took Ryk took his 1st regular season NFL football game! We have taken the others to concerts, and we thought it was Rykers turn! Great seats, great weather, great company, great Win!

love, mom