Sunday, December 25, 2011

Christmas 2011



The cousins on Christmas morning


Christmas night...these 2 cousins were adorable! it was like flashback to childhood!

Christmas...we have such a fun family tradition...from Christmas Eve to Christmas night...it is always so much fun!!...and it was so wonderful having even more of our family with us in Clarksdale this year! Christmas Eve was a blast...just like it always is. The cousins had a blast waking up to Santa together!

Sunday, December 4, 2011

The Birthday Boy

He loves Mickey Mouse...so why not do a Mickey Mouse cake!


It was the perfect birthday celebration. We were able to celebrate his birthday with our close friends!! Kids were running everywhere- 12 of them...6 and under!...My big 2 year old loved every minute of it. He kept saying " My birthday...my birthday...Mickey Mouse birthday!" We are so very thankful for our dear friends we have met since moving here! God is so good!!

Monday, November 28, 2011


All the grownups of the Tyner family!

We love our cousins!!

We had such a fun Thanksgiving!! All the Tyners and Hagwoods were together...and kids were everywhere!! We are so thankful for family!!

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Learning about Thanksgiving

Maggie's Mayflower...she did every bit of it by herself. Are we surprised?!!

And this is where these two wild kiddos ended up...in the cabinet...after our Thanksgiving lesson!

Monday, November 7, 2011

Cub Scouts

Tyner was so excited about starting Cub Scouts. It really is such a great organization. It teaches boys so many important lessons. Between sports and Scouts we are really busy around here. But I am enjoying every minute of it!
My Cub Scout!...He is so proud!

Monday, October 31, 2011

Halloween

Just a few of the neighborhood kids
our choices this year...a lion, Mario(big surprise!), Strawberry Shortcake
Halloween was so much fun. We got together with good neighborhood friends, played and of course went trick or treating! I have to say I am so very thankful for this neighborhood we live in. It is such a wonderful and safe place for my family! My children can ride their bikes up and down the sidewalks, walk to friends houses, etc... the list could go on! Sometimes I feel like we live in Mayberry! ha!

Thursday, October 27, 2011

Field Trip to North Caroline



The North Caroline Welcome Center is about 40 minutes from our house. It is a great welcome center that has great picnic tables with wonderful views of the mountains. While Pie was visiting we stopped here to get some information. I thought it was such a neat spot that I decided to take Maggie and Hunt on a "field trip" there. We had a great picnic spot that had a wonderful view. We picked up some great information about fun things we can do in N.C!

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Fender's Farm Pumpkin Patch





We had so much fun at Fender's Farm. We played on the playground, took a hay ride, jumped on the blob, rode a zip line, launched apples, and of course picked out our pumpkin. I think the pictures do the best job of explaining the good time we had!

Friday, October 14, 2011

Leaves at Bays Mountain


Bays Mountain Park has been beautiful this Fall. We were glad to take Pie there and show her our spot we love so much. There is a great hike around the lake that we enjoy doing. We took Pie on it while she was visiting.

Friday, October 7, 2011

Pumpkin craft and wild man!


I was upstairs doing something and I came downstairs to the kitchen and this is what I found. Yes, he is under the kitchen table.

We will be doing lots of fun pumpkin/fall crafts for the next month!

Are we surprised she is in her dancing costume? Absolutely not!!
And just another priceless picture!
It is unbelievably gorgeous up here right now!! Well, it is all the time. But the mountains and all the colorful leaves...breathtaking!. We were taking Maggie to dancing the other day and had so much fun talking about all the pretty leaves! Maggie asked, "Mommy, why does God make the leaves change colors?" What a good question!! I told her..."Just for us to enjoy! He didn't have to make them change colors. But he does because he wants us to enjoy his beautiful creation!" She said, "How does he do it?"...She paused for a minute. " Oh, I know. He snaps his fingers and they go poof! That's how he dooos it, Mommy, right?!" She was so proud of herself. My answer..."absolutley, honey!" Oh, how I LOVE all these precious conversations! Now back to stare out my window at the mountains and all the colors. Happy FALL!!!

Friday, September 30, 2011

Just another fun day

practicing recognizing the bigger numbers
on our way to go eat lunch with Tyner at school
(they were pretending to be shy!!)

We are practicing recognizing numbers 1-100 in math. She does a great job counting to 100. But we are really working on recognizing the numbers past 11. She is such a good student. I drew the numbers down the sidewalk. I would tell her to hop, skip, or jump to a particular number. The next activity she would throw an object on a number and call out the one it landed on.

After that fun lesson we packed a picnic and went across the street to Tyner's school and ate lunch with him. I loaded Maggie and Hunt in the bike buggie and off we went.

Monday, September 26, 2011

Learning to Read


We are all having so much fun finding different fun ways to learn our words. At the beginning of our homeschooling journey we did a gross motor skill activity that involved Maggie hopping, skipping, and jumping up a sidewalk chalk ladder. Writing the words up the ladder was actually her idea! Sounds a lot like an idea I would come up with! Anyway, these are the words she has learned so far and is doing extremely well! She is also sounding out words that have familiar patterns like...hat, sat, pat...had, mad, pad...etc...I am so proud of my little student!

Monday, September 19, 2011

Maggie's handwriting


I am one EXTREMELY proud Mama right now. Maggie wrote her name all by herself this morning! First she began tracing her name with sandpaper letters. Next, she traced over it on handwriting paper. Then, this morning I game her a blank piece of handwriting paper and this is what she did. She was so excited! She is moving really fast with everything we are learning! She is also doing a great job learning her sight words and sounding out words. Homeschooling has been really good for her because I can move at her pace...which just happens to be really fast! I think she will be very prepared for kindergarten!

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Warriors Path


We took a family outing on Sunday to Warriors path. The kids LOVE it! It was Hunter's first time to see the unbelievable playground. There is a "babbling brook" that runs through it and kids get in it and play. I have a picture somewhere of Tyner and Maggie playing in it. It was a great Sunday afternoon outing!

Saturday, September 17, 2011

A date with my hubby


Poppa came to spend the night with us on Saturday night so we could have a date. We went out with some friends of ours(that happen to live down the street and also went to Ole Miss) to a neat little restaurant/bar that is downtown. We had so much fun!

Soccer


We are both very proud of our soccer player. He is still loving the sport and always looks forward to every game. They have practice tomorrow and a game on Thursday and Saturday. He is a fast little guy! Hunter stands on the sidelines with the other dads and helps coach!

Friday, September 16, 2011

Update on Homeschooling


Hunt just goes right along with us.

We made letters out of play dough!

Using our sandpaper letters to get the feel for writing our last name
Last week she made this clown and had to use a color by number chart. She also made the puppy dog to go along with our story Harry the Dirty Dog.

Well, we are moving right along with Maggie's school. She is still loving it and so am I. Hunt is even enjoying it, too! We have moved on from learning to write her first name to now our last name. We start with sandpaper letters and then move to writing it with a pencil. She loves learning to write so we mix it up a little. She has already learned to read about 10 sight words and we are even working on so phonics. She is so eager to learn how to read so that has been really exciting!! I feel like at this point the sky is the limit. There is no stopping her!

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Playing Dress Up



He looked so sweet all dressed up for Church I couldn't help but take some pictures of him. I think my favorite thing about these pictures is how sweet and innocent he looks.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Soccer



I can't believe this is Tyner's 4th season of soccer! His team is the Land Sharks! He is a good soccer player and very quick on his feet. Hunter has been impressed with how well he can turn the ball! The fields are unbelievably nice and nestled in the mountains. I have quite a view when I take him to practice!