Chicks 2016

Hard to believe we started taking baby chick pictures 8 years ago at the Mizell’s chicken farm.

It’s always fun to go up for the day, see the chicks and get in a visit with some of our favorites.

This year, DW & Adam got in on the action, since we went on a Sunday afternoon.

The girls were chick pros this year- even Annabelle was fine holding them. Tucker, on the other hand, wanted nothing to do with them.

After we tortured them with some pictures, we let the kids run around outside, jump hay bales, climb on the tractors and drink Gatorade & Cokes in the back of DW’s truck.

We all missed our Sunday afternoon naps, but it was definitly worth it.

Thanks, Mizells, for a fun Sunday afternoon!

~amw~

First Grade Field Trip

This year’s field trip was to Wild Adventures in Valdosta.

We met at the school at 7:00 a.m. and made it to Georgia when the park opened.

The day started off a little bumpy, with the first ride. It was one of those roller coasters that looks like it’s going to fall off the tracks and was probably not the best one for AB to ride first. She screamed – she cried- and she insisted she was riding NOTHING else that day. Nice.

We convinced her to get on a few other things and she enjoyed those…

But there was no convinving her to ride the big coaster, Swamp Thing. Her two little friends rode it over and over and over and begged her to try it, but she wouldn’t cave.

We took a break for lunch, and walked around the dinosaur exhibit, which was so neat!

We rode the safari train and then saw the tiger show…

Walked through the animal exhibit, saw the alligator show, and the kids even held a baby alligator…

We went through the bird exhibit- it was so neat- all the little birds would land on you if you had food. AB wanted NOTHING to do with that.

After all the animal shows and exhibits, we FINALLY convinced AB to try the Swamp Thing. She loved it. We rode a couple times together and then the kids rode it by themselves.

We hit a couple more things again on our way out, made our gift shop stop and literally closed the park down.

It was such a fun day!

~amw~

Color Run

Our school hosted a Color Run 5K as a fundraiser and it was so much fun!

We signed up to “run” – and by run, I mean walk, and we had a great time.

Annabelle’s Color Team:

Before the Race

&

After the Race

Mamie caught a piggy-back ride with Nie-Nie for part of the race

but she made sure she ran through all of the color stations. Those were her favorite- imagine that. ;)

I gave her a ride for the last leg of the race, and then she got down to cross the finish line with Grammy.

Pappy parked on the route and waved us on and Pop was waiting at the finish line for us, too.

Everyone celebrated at the “color party” which was just another excuse to get some more color on our clothes and in our hair.

It really was such a fun morning, and a great fundraiser. The only bad part was getting everyone home and cleaned up!

~amw~

Sew Much Fun!

Annabelle has been interested in sewing for a while now. I knew it would make a great 4H project for her to work on this year, and I thought there’d be several other little Cloverbuds in our club who might be interested in sewing, too. So it made perfect sense to host a little mini-sewing camp for our club. We limited it to 6 girls (one was unable to come that day, so it ended up being 5), and it turned out to be a great number. I’d asked my mom to help me, and she recruited a retired school teacher she knows who loves to sew. With three of us leading the group, we had plenty of adults to help the girls.

My parents bought Annabelle her own sewing machine for Christmas and a couple of the other girls had their own machines, too. I’d set up our machines for the ones who didn’t have thier own, and paired them at three tables.

We held the camp on our sunroom, and to hide the Barbie loft and our exercise equipment, I set up a little backdrop. It was also a great spot for our little fashion show pictures when the girls were all finished with thier sewing projects.

We started out with the basics and I’d made each girl a packet with diagrams, information, and practice sheets in it.

The girls were itching to get started! After a few practice stitches, we started on their project, which was a simple skirt. I’d chosen this, becuase I knew the girls could enter them into the Suwannee River Fair and participate in the fair’s fashion show with them.

We took a break for lunch, when DW got there with our Chick-fil-a nugget tray.

That was a huge hit and I think the girls may have enjoyed lunch as much as they enjoyed sewing.

After lunch, we finished up the skirts, which turned out adorable. The girls are all 7 and under, and I was proud of how great they did.

We sent the girls home with a little sewing themed goody-bag at the end of the camp and I hope they all had as much fun as we did.

~amw~

Breakfast with the Bunny

We had breakfast with the Easter bunny again this year and it was just as cute as last year. 

Grammy & Pop went with us, and Parker joined the fun, too!

Mamie had a special treat for the bunny…

Tucker wasn’t a huge fan of the after-breakfast pictures. I think he was just ill that the bunny didn’t give him any candy right then. He didn’t know he had to wait until Easter to get his basket. ;)

~amw~