tupelo day

every year, the 4th grade concludes their study of mississippi history with tupelo day.  they split up and hit all the hot spots around town for pictures to go in their mississippi scrapbook while one of the moms in the car reads about whatever it is that we are about to see.  it's a really fun way to do a field trip.  this year, the only people that we had in our car was wes and sam.


we started at the school...

 and headed over to the tupelo automobile museum...

then, we hit up the birthplace of elvis...

johnnie's drive in...

city hall...

the records at city hall were pretty neat.  the very first minutes ever were handwritten in those gigantic books!

after a crazy turn of events, we ended up at tupelo water and light.  this was not on the suggested or required list of places to visit, but it turned out to be the highlight.  we got a backstage tour of the warehouse with the mayor and johnny timmons (mr. tupelo water and light).  we saw where we keep all the street signs and traffic lights.

they visited the transformer yard and got a lesson on aquifers.

they got to ride in the bucket with their buddy's (chase) dad.

and they MADE us stay for lunch!!  :)  they were having a retirement party, and they had their competition BBQ team cooking burgers and banana pudding.  we stayed!!  it was great!  and we got a picture with the mayor, jason shelton.

we headed over to the tupelo CVB from there.  it's a really neat place.  if you ever visit tupelo, give it a few minutes of your time!

 tupelo hardware (where elvis bought his first guitar)...

the courthouse...

the lyric...

 reed's...

the gumtree bookstore...

crosstown...

tupelo battlefield...

natchez trace...

the 13 unknown civil war soldier graves along the trace...

and baskin robbins to top it off...

 tupelo day was a success!  this is my kind of field trip!!

when aunt holly comes...

you get to stay up late and bet on the outcome of some cooking show on the food network!!  even abe was all up in it!

they are all awaiting your return!!!

field trip

reed's class had some sort of connection with the blue mountain baseball coach, so they took off of school for a day to attend a baseball game.  they sang the national anthem, got free popcorn, and watched the home team bring home a win.  he said he could get used to baseball field trips.  he isn't exactly a fan of those trips to frozen on ice or the ballet!!  :)

soccer

well, baseball season is in full swing, but i have yet to post some soccer pictures.  it was fun while it lasted, but i was happy to see it end!  it's too cold to play soccer most nights!!

wes played for the foxes, and his team won most of their games.  reed played for the comets, and i'm not sure that they ever won one.  oh well.  he was still mostly smiles out there!

the foxes

the comets.  reed tried hard.  bless him.  their team just struggled out there.

and now we celebrate the warm weather and the sport that i actually understand.  hello, summer and baseball!

boys, boys, boys

when it's a cold, rainy weekend day, and you are stuck inside and mad about it because it feels like the warm weather is never going to get here......you round up the neighbors and head to strange brew for a meeting of the minds!!

the final product

the final product with william's winning t-shirt design came in, and they looked really good!  it is kind of fun to see it walking around town!  he was also the feature for the student spotlight, so i stole this little snippet off of the app.

keep up the good work, william!!

happy easter

all cleaned up, ironed up, and somewhat smiling...