red ribbon week

The little 3 kids celebrated Red Ribbon week at their schools with dress up days.  The kids all love this!  Well the girls do anyway, but now that they've moved up to the Elementary School they only had 2 fun dress up days.  :(  Harrison had pajama day one day at school and couldn't figure out why in the world someone would want to wear their PJs to school.  Ha!

Rock Star Day and Red Day

Harrison LOVED the fauxhawk!

 When You Grow Up Day

We have a football player, a nurse and a teacher on our hands!

owl treats again!

We made these owl treats last year, but thought they were so much fun we'd make them for Harrison's kindergarten class this year.  Here he is in action

 Making the eyes with Oreos and Reeses Pieces

 He let me put on the candy corn noses!

 Here's the finished product!

 So much fun!

field trip to ivy green

Emma Taylor's class took a field trip to Helen Keller's birthplace in Tuscumbia, AL on Friday.  We were able to tour her house and the grounds and then headed over to Spring Park to play and eat lunch.  What a fun day!

 Helen's home

Here's Emma Taylor in front of the home that Helen later shared with Annie Sullivan.  It's right next door to Helen's family home.

We learned that Helen wasn't well behaved and in order for Annie to be able to teach her, she needed to be away from her family for awhile.  So Helen would think she'd moved away, the family loaded her up in a carriage and drove around the grounds for awhile and then dropped her off next door, just a few feet from her original house.  That way her dad could check on her, but she didn't know it.  So interesting!

The girls loved this braille book!

Brenna, Emma Taylor and Mia in Helen's parent's room.

 Helen's original bedroom in the family home

 Jacob and Emma Taylor at the water pump.  This is where Helen learned her first word, "water."

Jacob, Emma Taylor and Mia

 Mrs. Smith's class

 The kids loved playing under the magnolias!

 Next we headed to spring park.  The kids couldn't wait to ride the carousel!

Lexie, Emma Taylor, Kelsey and Mia loved the train too!

Spring Park has fun playground equipment and a lake full of ducks.  We thoroughly enjoyed our field trip to Tuscumbia!

band night

Anna Grace is doing a great job playing her flute and she's really enjoying it.  Tonight was band night for the middle school, so she was able to play with the high school band before the football game.  Anna Grace was chosen to lead her band out onto the field and did it like a pro!

She's the first one on the left in the white shirt.  I took these pictures with my phone, so I wasn't able to zoom very well.

 Proud Daddy!

We enjoyed hearing Anna Grace and the band perform Louie Louie!  Fun!

soccer boy

Harrison scored his first goal at his soccer game tonight!  He loves to run and keep up with the ball, but normally doesn't take it from someone else.  Well tonight he stopped by my chair for a minute to grab a drink and I told him if he'd steal the ball from the other team I'd give him $5.  :)  His coach called him back into the game and he immediately ran up, stole the ball and kicked it right into the goal.  Woohoo!

He was SO proud of himself...just look at that face!

All he needed was a little encouragement, right?  Scoring the goal was a big confidence booster.  We stopped by the ATM on the way home and picked up his 5 bucks!  Ha!  :)

Thanks for the great idea, Robin!  :)