The Perfectly Imperfect Mama

2021 (HALF) YEARLY RECAP! POST 2 of 3

by Whitney Pegram - Wednesday, August 04, 2021

Happy Wednesday!

I'm back & I'm ready to share even more of a life lately recap with you! YESTERDAY, I shared a "few" things from February & March ... today, is April & May! It's the easiest way I could think to do it so I don't miss anything.

And today, I want to start with this middle child of mine!

Ask her what her most favorite thing is & I can guarantee you that she says "hanging out with mom by myself!" The girl thrives off of a good girls day out!

In April, this cutie pie turned 2!

And we loved celebrating him trash truck style!

Coop played spring baseball ...

And speaking of the cutest nephew in the entire world & baseball, he came to watch Cooper play some, too!

We're also quite smitten with his little sister!!

Our blue eyed girls!

We also dyed Easter eggs & only broke about 12 out of 18. Not too bad. 😉

We had a family cook out one Sunday evening & the park it was at had a carousel. How cool is that!?!

In May we celebrated Mother's Day.

It's such a JOY being their mama!

And I have to say that I have been blessed with the best mama ...

And mother-in-love!

We took lots of Sunday morning church pictures ...

We also wrapped up Awana on Wednesday nights at church back in May!

We went out to one of our favorite restaurants with my parents & sister.

If this isn't the perfect example of life with a big brother, then I don't know what is!

We grabbed dinner one night only to realize when we got out of the car Millie Jo had her Christmas pajama onesie on. Girlfriend rocked it, too ... didn't think twice about it!

We got my car's oil changed one day & Ellie Joy loves going just because they have a play area & free packs of crackers. We live an extremely exciting life over here! HA! But seriously, it's her big blue eyes for me!

When school was still in, we would sneak to one of our favorite Mexican restaurants before heading to pick up line. Shhhhh! Probably why Dan has us on a 30 day no spending challenge. If ya know, ya know. Sigh. Makes perfect sense now.

Millie Jo got her hair all chopped off for a fresh summer do.

And she instantly looked like a teenager!

And we brought in summer by spending all of our time outside playing in the water!

Okay y'all! I will see you back here tomorrow for post 3 of 3! We're SO close to wrapping up all the life lately things!

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2021 (HALF) YEARLY RECAP! POST 1 OF 3

by Whitney Pegram - Tuesday, August 03, 2021

Hey Hey Friends!

I'm back today catching you up on our 2021 so far! Can you believe that we're halfway through the year already!?!

The first few months of our year is always birthday celebrations upon birthday celebrations upon birthday celebrations. And I LOVE IT!!

And it all started with this girl from my camera roll ...

Pure JOY! We're all pretty crazy about her around here.

Her birthday was in February (yep, we're going all the way back to then, ha!) I shared all about her DINOSAUR THEME BIRTHDAY PARTY here if you want to check it out!

We celebrated her all month long because that's just what we do around here for birthdays!

We even got to celebrate her bestie one weekend!

And met up with my sister for lunch afterwards.

Then we celebrated this Atlanta Braves obsessed boy's birthday in late March!

His most favorite food is Japanese. Specifically a Japanese restaurant that cooks in front of you!

And apparently something was hilarious! Or at least Coop & I thought so. Not surprising at all.

Just when it starts getting warm outside, you can find us at Pelican's getting a snow cone!

We've spent a lot of time at the park ...

And riding bikes.

We even went to play putt-putt one evening! Nothing like a ~~friendly~~ competitive game of putt-putt. I won by the way.

Are my girls the only ones who pack a bag full of ALL the things ... even to go to church!?! I love these sweet sisters!

We've had makeovers ...

We've played dress up ...

And had "sleepovers."
Can you even with her little smile on her face because her two favorite guys are playing pretend with her!?!

We've also had sleepovers at Grammy & Pop's house ...

Speaking of Pop, he bought her all the stuff dinosaurs he could find for her birthday & she LOVES them!

Yes, she's still dinosaur obsessed!

And I honestly can't remember when this was, but I'm documenting it because I'm not sure it will ever happen again because #11.

Okay!

That wraps up 1 of 3 recap posts!

We're off to the dentist this morning for Coop's appointment. Prayers for him, please! He gets so nervous to go!

See y'all tomorrow!

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END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR 2020-2021

by Whitney Pegram - Monday, August 02, 2021

HAPPY MONDAY!

I mentioned in FRIDAY'S POST that I am trying to get all caught up on what has been going on in our lives in 2021. And what better way to kick off the month of August than with the end of the school year back in May!

It's officially back to school month. WAHHH!

I couldn't NOT share Cooper & Millie Jo's school pictures with you because they're just so stinkin' cute.

Momfession : I don't buy school photos. Will I regret it one day!?! Probably so.

If you're new around here, my family is involved in a non-profit pro-life organization. It is such a blessing to our lives! I want to take the time to tell you about my boy for a minute. Every year, we do three fundraisers & the late spring/early summer fundraiser is called Baby Bottle Blessings. This year, if you remember, we put our kiddos in a Christian school & Cooper took it amongst himself to write his headmaster a "business" letter asking if his school could set up a Baby Bottle Blessings challenge. He said YES! All 14 classrooms got a baby bottle & made it a competition of who could raise the most money. Can I just tell you that their school raised over $1500. Not only that, Cooper's class specifically threw a baby shower & all items were donated! All because my boy's voice & heart for unborn babies in the world. I have tears just typing this because I can't wait to see how God uses him!

Before school ended, my kiddos were able to have field day! I was so happy that we could be there, in person, for it!

These two sure are going to miss each other as they will be going to different schools this year!

And the last day of school was also awards day! Always such a fun, exciting, yet bittersweet day!

This letter is from Millie Jo's teacher. What a joy my girl is to us! She received the citizenship award for her class! We are so proud of her!

And our boy is officially a 5th grade grad! Time is such a thief. Holy cow! Cooper also received the citizenship award & in his class, his teacher does a Christian Character award. He received that as well. She let the students vote & it just makes my heart so happy that he's such a great friend!

Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6