Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!! Today I'm thankful for Faith, Family, Friends and Food!



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My sweet boy

Last night Tanner's teacher (who we absolutely adore!) texted me these pictures of writing assignments she was grading. I'm posting from my phone so I'm not sure if you'll be able to read it so I'll put what it says underneath.






I am thankful for many things. First I am thankful for Jesus because he died for my sins. Next I am thankful for angels because they watch over me. Last I am thankful for God because he started us. These are the things I am thankful for.

I'm assuming the assignment was to write what you are thankful for. I love the fact that even in a school that is forbidden to speak about God my boy finds a way to do it! I love his sweet tender heart!

I'm thankful that he loves Jesus so much this early in his life!

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Halloween 2013

Oh how I miss the days of matching costumes. Can we all just pause and sigh...

This year we had a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and Supergirl! We did decide next year to all dress up as a superhero. Ryleigh was excited about that. She wanted her and Tanner to match this year but he wouldn't do it. She wanted to be Jasmine and him to be Aladdin. He vetoed that real quick!



We went to some friends of ours house to eat and trick or treat. We had the best time! There were kids everywhere!!





Our group of trick or treaters.





I'm so thankful for these girls and the friendships they have.





My friend Bridget texted me the next morning around 8:30 and said they had the hardest time getting up and getting to school on time. I sent her this picture of us and said we didn't even try. Because of course the Stokley kids are going to be late the day after Halloween. I'm surprised we even went at all :)


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Money

Well we know who is who in our marriage! :)


Ryan sent me this this morning. Guess I can't hold it against him. I always knew we made a good team! I always joke with Ryan that there isn't a minimum amount of times you have to swipe your card a day. They won't turn it off if you don't use it 10 times a day, lol!

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Church

Every since we moved back to our "home" church we have been really busy!

Ryan and I were team captains for Son Games. It was a 8 week competition and of course our team won! Our children's pastors are some of our good friends so I'm not sure why they thought we'd be good captains. They know how competitive I am!

Our team won a trip to Waterville! Well unfortunately it closed that day due to weather. So we made the best of it anyway.


We headed to play some laser tag and bazooka ball.


This guy and lady below are 2 of our favorite people in the world. They invest so much in our kids and have no idea how much we appreciate them. Thank you guys for everything you do for our kids!!





How many kids can fit in one booth at Dairy Queen??



Over Labor Day weekend we went to Gatlinburg with the youth group. We haven't been helping with them but are friends with a lot of the kids. Freddy, the children's pastor needed a girl chaperone to go so Ryan and I volunteered. We had a blast!


All the kids think Ryan's so cool. It kinda hurts my feelings!


We drove go carts like a million times, seriously.


And of course had to walk around Downtown Gatlinburg.






The other night we had a girls slumber party at church. There were over 40 girls there! Only like 4 moms stayed but I was excited that my girl thought I was cool enough to stay! They stayed up until like 3 am! I'm too old for that!! I slept until like 11 the next day!


We sure do love our church!

90 miles a hour

Fall is in full swing at the Stokley house. We went from easy sweet summertime to busy busy fall!

I love fall, I love the weather and the fair, pumpkin patch, corn maize, Halloween, thanksgiving and Black Friday. I'm sure missing summer today though. I'm missing lazy afternoons swimming with no homework to do or practices to go to.

Ryleigh is in soccer again this fall. She really likes the competitiveness of it but not the heat. Bless her heart, she's her mothers daughter. She is also taking cheerleading/gymnastics/tumbling classes as Cheer Force One. She wants to learn to do back handsprings and things like that. I'm thankful she isn't taking dance this year. These moms are a lot less stressful than "dance moms!" I don't think I could have handled another year of dance.

Tanner sat out of fall tball and opted to take guitar and golf lessons. Guitar lessons are in full swing and he is really liking it! He's musically inclined, he gets that from Ryan's family! Definitely not mine :) Ryan's dad was a professional gospel singer. I don't know if professional is the right word for a singer but he had CDs and was on the radio.

Golf won't start for a couple more weeks. He's always liked golf but we didn't think he was old enough to warrant spending the money on private lessons. Golf isn't cheap. AT ALL!

So that's what's going on around here. Hope everyone is having a great start to their fall!!


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First Day of School

Well I'm obviously really far behind since school started weeks ago. I wanted to make sure I posted these pics so I would have them later.

Miss Priss started 2nd grade and Tanner started 1st. We are still in that position where we don't know where we are going to send them to school. We are in no way at all against public school but we just don't like the middle school they will go too. So basically we don't know if this will be their last year at their school or not. If we move them I want it to be a few years before middle. I wish there was a private school close to us besides Faith. We've looked at St. Paul's, St. Luke's and Mobile Christian. We like them all they are just so far away. Especially with my job now. I don't ever pass any one place. I could go to Hattiesburg one day and Gulf Shores the next.

If Mrs. Sowell reads my blog, you need to just take ABC to 12th grade!

We are EXTREMELY happy with the kids teachers this year. Ryleigh got one of my good friends mother in law and Tanner got his kindergarten teacher again! She moved to first grade. If we are lucky maybe she will just keep moving up as he does! :)















They had a great first day and are getting used to be back in a routine. Ryan and I on the other hand aren't glad they are back in school. It puts too much of a restraint on us! :)

Both are doing great! We went to open house and were surprised at Tanner's standardized test scores. They wanted them to be around a 630 but were satisfied with anything in the 600 range. Well Tanner's was a 717!

Ryleigh is super smart too and I hate to not brag on her but we excepted it of her, lol! Tanner has surprised us!

And just to look back, here's their first day of K3. I can't believe how big they've gotten!






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