The Growing Caldwell Family

High school brought the opportunity to attend the homecoming dance. A hurricane in the area the day before homecoming brought lots of wind and some flooding, threatening to mess up the kids' plans. Luckily, the school was safe and their plans went on! We found this dress in an online shop and took a chance ordering it. It turned out so cute and we loved it! Sarah Graves made plans to meet up with a group of friends for dinner before the dance. They looked so pretty and were so relaxed. Such a great way to go to a dance! The moms all enjoyed dinner together and I had a great time getting to know them! So glad this girl and I had a fun time together! I love that the school designates a time for each grade to meet up and parents get a group picture of the class! With pictures finished, the girls slipped on their comfy shoes so they could enjoy the dancing!  She had a great time and really enjoyed being at the event, dancing, and taking in the SEC football they had showing! While SG wa...

Charlie played for the Iron Birds in Majors this fall. The Iron Birds are a real minor league team in Maryland. It was Coach Andrew's team and Charlie likes him as a coach.  Even with a good coach, this was a tough season. Charlie couldn't find his groove for pitching or batting. Definitely hard to go through, but there is a lot to.be learned in losing.  His biggest fans! His season wasn't going so well, especially batting, so he decided this new bat might do the trick.  At a game in October, he was giving it his all in the outfield and then he horribly was hit in the face with the ball. It happened so quick. He was running to get the ball and lost it in the lights. His team was very kind to him. Immediately it was swelling and he started to worry about kids judging him as a poor ballplayer for making that error. I felt terrible for him. His face hurt and his pride was so wounded.  The next morning he could barely open his eye it was so swollen. Thankfully, he had on...

  Charlie dove into school activities and started running cross country. He really liked Coach Lyndy and her son, Anderson was very nice. He did miss Coach Goodwin and Coach P.J. with a smaller team at St. B's.  Their first meet was hosted at Whitefield and it was HOT! Fun to attend a meet hosted at our school! He worked hard over the season and cut his time some, but was disappointed he didn't make top 7 boys to go to the championship meet.  One of the best parts about playing a sport is getting new spirit wear! They can wear any hoodie except on chapel day and on Fridays they wear spirit shirts, so yay for more1

Sarah Graves had fun being part of the marching band! She became good friends with several girls in the color guard and got to know band members better.  The band traveled to most away games and the bus time was fun and she learned a lot about the school from the other kids! In addition to the games, they also competed in a band competition and took hom second place overall and first place for their category!  We all enjoyed going to home games to watch the band perform! Wolfie, their mascot, visited them in band class! It was truly Friday night lights for us and we had fun with it! There was also a fall band concert where we enjoyed hearing them play inside.  They played at the Smyrna Veterans' Day celebration and did a fantastic job! It was really cool that Ms. Kim and Jono were there to hear her play! Ii'm proud of her for having the courage to join band when she wasn't sure if her playing would be good enough, for learning to march and play her instrument, and for mak...