“Stairsteps To School”

Summer is over...It is time to settle down & settle in to NEW SCHOOLS! Be Still My Heart... Here We Go! Dear Lord, Please be with each of these Orange babies! Starting school is always hard because even with the chaos... I love them home. Moving means sending them to new places and having to start over. If they can do it and be excited and have those smiles... Surely I can! With the start of school also means FOOTBALL! Noah had his first season as a Cub. Lots of hard work & I am so proud of him to be so dedicated. I loved having family come watch & I loved the old memories hearing the band play & LOTS  of cowbell!!!! Lots of cheering from those young & old. The cherry on top was Noah got to have Nathan's old number!!!!! #19 Talk about Special!!!!! The funny thing is Noah wasn't there when he passed out numbers. When he returned it was him & another boy & the coach handed the boy #19 & Noah #45. Noah asked him if he wanted to trade. Nope. The boy was fine with his #. Noah comes home and tells me this! I am like you have GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! All of those #'s were passed out & #19 was left!!! I said Noah you have to have that number!!! What are the chances!!!??? I said ask him if he will trade & tell him it was your Dad's # at this school! He was like I already tried. So I am texting Nathan and told him what had happen. It's like I could feel his feelings through the phone & he was in high school all over again!!!! He said Noah has to get that number!!!! I said Honey he tried, I don't think the boy wants to trade. Nate said everyone has a price!!! 😂😂😂😂 I said WHAT!!!?? I am just dying inside seeing how bad he wants this to happen & Noah have his # for the next four years. He told Noah he would pay & his max was $50.... BUT he expected Noah to get the best deal. Ok can we just pause here! I just fell in love with my husband All. Over. Again. The next day Noah tells the boy he would give him $20. The boy was like nope. Noah then jumps to $45😂 & got the boy's attention a little more. He then wanted to know what other numbers were available. Noah went & did the leg work to find out. One of the numbers was #81 in which was the boy's uncles number. Noah was like See.. You can be your uncle's  number!!!! The boy was still thinking as Noah would flash the money at him. GAH Lee.... Could we go to jail for this!!??! It feels a little wrong! Finally Noah comes in & the boy had changed his number out and now had #81 on his locker. Noah raced to the coaches a little confused why the boy never told him and persuaded the Coaches to let him have his Dad's old number! One of them actually played with Nate & joked with him telling him he better be good cause his daddy was! Noah sent us a picture of his locker with # 19 & the story could continue. Happy Orange Family! 

The rest of the pics on here are as always... our animals! Baby cousins & BBQ's, bowin & mowin, creek fun & just more country living. By country livin... I mean getting my hair done down at the beauty salon called Southern Grace. It is a tiny box of a building & use to be an old bank. But inside that tiny cute box are the SWEETEST ladies!!! As soon as I sat in the chair I knew it was my new place! It isn’t far down the road & just makes me happy every time I get to go. Oh & You know you must be home when you go to a BBQ & see all your old teachers, basketball coach & even my aunt & uncle! The longer we are here the more reminded I am of how EVERYBODY KNOWS EVERYBODY. Haha! Love being here & know there will be so much more to experience with the kids.