Truth Be Told Art with the Scouts

On May 3rd both the Girl Scouts and the Cub/Boy Scouts hosted Truth Be Told Art parties!  You know we love TBTA in our house and we love the artist who comes to our area so of course I had to attend both of them.  I painted that morning with the Girl Scouts and then went home and got the boys to paint that afternoon.  I had originally not planned to paint in the afternoon, but our wonderful artist decided to not only paint a  camouflage tree with the boys but to also paint the "Blessings" design with the Mamas.  I had been wanting to paint it so I couldn't resist!

 

Will

Wyatt and his Dad

Trey putting his own spin on his painting.

Reagan

Tristan

TWO paintings completed!

Trey's finished product.

Passing the time while the adults finished up.

Jesse's finished product.

Tristan, Will, Trey, Jesse, Reagan, and Wyatt

Showing off our masterpieces!

Tristan & Kristi

Cynthia & Reagan

My little loves.  Thankful to make memories with them!

So much fun!

Thankful for my blessings!

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!