An Uncomplicated Life Blog

Happy Winter Wonderland 10th Birthday, Otto!

You’re sassy. You’re opinionated. You’re brilliant. You’re hilarious. You love beautiful things. You’re the absolute best.

The fam agreed, this was my best cake yet! All the others are brainstorming their birthday cake requests. I love that I get to create for them. They won’t remember the gifts, but they will remember that mom made them a special cake every year, and knowing that fills my heart ❤️

Is it still summer in Dallas? Why, yes. Is my fall porch too cute to NOT have a perm spot in the feed? Absolutely!

First game tonight, and this Ski-U-Mah moment was initiated by my football loving Teddy (lap twin) and thankfully, everyone played along! Pr***en Henry… barely.

Teds wants to play football of Minnesota or Penn State (🥹) but hates anything under 70 degrees so 🤷🏼‍♀️

The Blonde Squad is back at school! First grade for the twinkles, 4th grade for Otto, and a new (middle!) school for Henry who’s in 6th.

Go get ‘em, sons. You make mama proud.

Annual tradition! Happy Independence Day 🇺🇸

July 4th pregame at Oma’s 🎆🇺🇸

Chef Teddy has a strong grilled pizza and s’more game.
Pr***en Henry pretends he doesn’t care but knows exactly how good looking he is.
Mischief Knox shouldn’t be left alone with marshmallow roasting sticks.
DJ Otto was curating the playlist.

As Maycember wraps… a dance recital (minus Teddy who has the flu) of my honey bees in the Winnie The Pooh Ballet. Both boys lifted girls! See ya in the fall,

End of the year school festivities, concluded with Henry graduating on to Jr High next year! So proud of all my boys. Keep kicking ass and taking names, sons.

Honor roll, basketball, swim team, boy/cub scouts, dance, art club, beta club, student of the month… I could keep bragging. How much time do we have?!

The chaos to getting 4/5 to look at the camera 😂
Happiest of birthday’s to my sweetest son, Henry. He’s my introvert (what IS that?!), my rule follower, my know it all, my athlete, my army obsessed ‘tween. Not me crying at the fact that this is likely the last year he asks for toys (in addition to OC shoes and Nike tall socks) Happy birthday HenHouse! Your mama will call you that until your eyes roll out of your tween head

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Moms make field day happen, even when it pours rain! We all worked together to move it indoors, ran stations around the school… and watched these kids have a blast.

Proud of my competitive boys and thankful to the fellow mom squad for pulling it off!

Taking it back to last Thanksgiving, just because he’s an excellent human 💕

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