Give Wildlife a Chance!

After our trip to Atlanta in April I had planned to come home and finish up our school year without any more trips.  However, we were notified that Jesse placed 2nd in the GDNR Give Wildlife a Chance poster contest and that his poster would be on display at the Go Fish Center in Perry, so of course we had to go see it!  I looked up information online, found out that they would be having a homeschool program on Friday, May 16th, and made plans to attend.

Art in the Park

After Jesse's soccer game on May 10th, we went to the Art in the Park event at our local park.  Both boys had submitted two pieces in the art contest, and our Ay-ee was also displaying some of her artwork so we went to check it out.

 

Ay-ee with her display of artwork.

Jesse working on a super secret Mother's Day surprise!

Trey and Jesse's artwork.  Trey's are the two on the left, Jesse's are the two on the right.

The awards didn't start anywhere near on time so we had a LONG wait!

Waiting...

Waiting...

And more waiting...

Jesse didn't like Mama taking pictures while we waited.

But it was worth the LONG wait...one of Jesse's paintings placed FIRST!

March Snapshot, Part 3

We love Truth Be Told Art down here in south Georgia!  On March 22nd, Pine Level's Heart and Home hosted their first party and as expected it was a wonderful time!  I love having artwork that my boys and I have created hanging in our home and I love that it has God's TRUTH written on it!

While Jesse was at soccer and I was at the Truth Be Told Art party, Trey was competing at DPA.  I absolutely hate that I missed his presentation but he had his cheerleaders there and Da assured me that he did a fabulous job!  I made it to the awards ceremony and am so proud of him for placing first in the flowers, shrubs, and lawns category.  Cora Jane also competed and placed first in the highly competitive history category!  I'm so proud of these Tyre babies!!!  Later we all met up at DQ for some celebration before heading out to watch our friends perform in the 4H Clovers & Company performance.

On March 25th our homeschoolers participated in a drug and internet awareness program.  Scott Manning, an investigator with our local police department, did an excellent job showing the kids what to be aware of and telling them the dangers.  He spoke to all the kids first, and they all got to see first hand what to watch our for.  My boys were most amazed at how much drugs can look like candy and I don't think I have to worry about either of them taking candy from strangers.  After the first hour, we took the younger kids out and he spoke in more detail to the older kids.  It was a very intense talk and Trey says he now understands why I won't let him have a facebook account or a phone which has removed, at least for now, one of the friction points in raising this almost teenager.

During February and March Jesse participated in the 4H knitting club and we both learned to knit!  Ahyee also got a knitting refresher and it took all three of us to finish Jesse's scarf in time for the fashion show on March 25th!  While I have my doubts that he will ever knit anything ever again, Jesse is oh so proud of his scarf and I'm oh so proud of him sticking with it and getting it done!

Jesse also participated in the "Plug into Nature" poster contest.  His poster shows many plants and animals that are native to Georgia.

Jesse is loving some soccer and I'm loving watching him.  I missed his March 22nd game, so I couldn't wait to watch him strut his stuff on March 27th!

March also brought us a lot of progress on our home!  It's nearing completion and I can't wait to get outside and get everything all cleaned up and ready for summer!!!

February Snapshot, Part 1

My favorite thing about February is that it's the month that I became a Mama!  We celebrated my big boy's 12th birthday on February 6th with a trip to Olive Garden & a cookie cake.  Yum!

You would think that between celebrating Trey's birthday on the 6th, the Blue & Gold Banquet on the 8th, & Scout Sunday on the 9th that our weekend would have been totally full.  But we like to keep extra busy around here, so on Friday, February 7th we attended a Truth Be Told Art party.  Of course we had a blast, and left with some pretty awesome art work.

Our finished products.

We also had to squeeze in some time that weekend to celebrate our sweet Hinson's birthday at the skating rink.  What a fun, fun day!

We finished up our extra busy weekend by celebrating both Trey & Hinson one more time at Sunday lunch.  More cake!  Yum!

After cake it was time to relax in the "hot pool".

It was an extra busy four days filled with family, friends, and lots of fun.  Just the way we like it!