A Week in the Life...
Saturday
&
Sunday

I'm playing catch-up today for my "A Week in the Life" project, so I'm posting pictures from both Saturday and Sunday.

I have SO enjoyed doing this project and would recommend that anyone try something similar. Take pictures of your daily life; or journal everyday about your normal routine; or take both pictures AND write it all down.

I really think it will be great to look back one day on this record of our lives here, in mid-October, in 2008. It was a very normal week...a lot of softball, and band practice, and homework, and church, and doing laundry, and writing, and eating, and hanging out with friends and family. The week didn't include some things--like date night with Gary, or girls night out with my friends, or spending time with my parents, or even an Alabama football game (I didn't go to the first one all season long) that are actually a pretty regular part of my life--but that's okay, because that's what life is all about...it's an adventure that's never really what you expect from day-to-day.

And, sure, it's full of big, exciting moments (birthdays! vacations! holidays!), but it's filled with many more small moments...small moments that are really precious beyond understanding.

So, then, here are my last two days of my "A Week in the Life" project. (I hope you've enjoyed sharing it with me as much as I'd enjoyed sharing them with you!)

Saturday's moments included...

Gary and Delaney getting up early to head out of town for a softball tournament (they left the house before 7), and then McKenna heading out to guard practice at 10. The rest of the day was Mommy & Scout time. After sleeping in a bit, we had Sydney's closing ceremonies for fall softball. She got the biggest cheers of the day, when she ran out to get her medal; her purse was hanging from her arm and she was just about the smallest girl out there. Too cute!





(She is so proud of that medal! She showed it to people all day long and then announced that she was going to even wear it to bed.)

Then a trip to McKenna's competition (the guard and the band both got all 1s and were .5 away from getting best in their class, so they did great!)...



Food included dippin dots after the competition (although it became quite chilly outside!)...

and a new recipe! Once October hits, it seems that all I want to do is bake. I made this Apple Cake with Warm Butter Sauce and it was delicious...

Then watching the Alabama game (I dvr-ed and watched it when I got back home) and then the Texas game. Both got big wins...

Grocery shopping, preparing for the next morning's Sunday School class, and seeing Delaney arrive with the team trophy. They won first place and she went 6 for 10 for the day, which was great for her. They got home at 10:30, but she said it sure was worth it!




(and, hey, I told you Sydney said she would wear her medal to bed! She was still giddy about it at bedtime!)

Sunday's moments included...

Sunday school and church service...






After church, we headed out to the Botanical Gardens to take pictures of Delaney for this Miss Photogenic contest for her middle school pageant coming up next month. The day was PERFECT for being outdoors, and we had a great time! (Of course, this was after Sydney burned her hand on a curling iron and we had to wait an hour for her to calm down. It really hurt and scared her, but it didn't blister or anything and it looks fine. But she freaked out!) Once we got there, Gary got some great pictures of Delaney (and, of course, Sydney and McKenna decided to pose too)...





(I love that picture of the girls and seriously think I might use it for our Christmas card this year!)

Delaney thought having her pictures taken was great and declared that "modeling is hard work" (yeah, right! lol), but then it was back to "normal" life for the rest of the afternoon and evening. Normal life included church again, finishing up some editing work (me), finishing up a school project (McKenna), watching the Rays capture the ALCS to head to the World Series (yay!!), and falling to sleep for everyone else.




A good end to a really good week! And I'm so thrilled that I captured it all!

I've got some ideas of how I'm going to put all of these photos and memories together. In fact, I already started working on a cover and I think I'm going to really like it (I'm doing a handmade album for it). You can go to Ali's blog and look at what sort of book she did for her project, and also look at this Flickr page that shows other people's creations. (Let me know if you did the project, so I can come check out your blog entries about it!)

This week, it may be sorta weird to not have my camera with me at all times and to not post pictures every day here on my blog!

This week?

We'll be looking for Halloween costumes; I'm in the mood to bake some more; we get to go to a ceremony for Delaney winning a writing contest; I may get crafty with Adrienne one day; I've got to get some writing done; and I want to get my album started. There is, as always, so much to look forward to! Life is GOOD!