1st Year Recap

Justin finished his first year of medical school this week, and we are so proud of him!! He did wonderful being a medical student and still being an awesome husband and daddy!  We had so many wonderful memories this first year of school and I don't want to forget any of them!  Here are some of my favorite pictures and memories during 1st year...

Our family at the Pinnacle right before school started

Owen and Natalie at the zoo in July (they look so young in this picture!)

Grace Ann and Andrew on one of their first play dates.

                          

The morning of orientation

My first trip to Huntsville by myself with the kids

Enjoyed a church picnic at the park

                           

Taught Grace Ann how to play trains... 

 

We spent many days at the playground

                                           

I celebrated a BIG birthday!

Made a special trip home to celebrate a birthday for a special friend!

Enjoyed lots of library time

Checked out our first library book

Started making hair bows for Grace Ann

Watched our husbands receive their white coats

Enjoyed watching these two during the white coat ceremony

Enjoyed watching Alabama football

Spent lots of time watching big brother play outside

Celebrated Justin's birthday

Surprised our daddy's when they came home from lunch by wearing scrubs just like them

Had a blast during the Fall Festival

Loved playing and jumping in the leaves during the fall

 Found a cute little pumpkin patch down the road from our house

 Had fun playing with our friends at the park

Enjoyed a girls night out with Grace Ann

Had a blast eating breakfast with Santa at the library 

Made wonderful memories celebrating our first Christmas as a family of four

Celebrated the end of first semester by ice skating outdoors in Knoxville

Spent lots of time playing with my embroidery machine

 

Had a blast at a Valentine's day party

Organized my first busy bag party

 Played in the snow with friends

Justin took Owen to his first basketball game...they BOTH had a blast!

Celebrate Easter at our church home in Harrogate

 Celebrated Grace Ann's first birthday

We took Owen on a special trip to Gatlinburg

 I can't believe our time in Harrogate is half over and I'm so excited about all of the fun things we have planned this summer! :)

Pruitt Playschool (Letter C)

We have been learning about the letter "C" the past few weeks. Owen has had a lot of fun learning about the letter "C" even though we have been really busy with traveling, celebrating Grace Ann's birthday, and going on a special trip! There were so many fun things to do with this letter!

Our Bible verse the past few weeks:

I can do everything through Him who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13

We started off by coloring some cupcakes on the letter "C'. Owen does NOT like to color at all!!  I'm not sure why he is so against it, but hopefully he will like it a little better when he is older.

Owen colored a cupcake and then we glued candles on top of it! LOVE how he is concentrating so hard in this picture!

We read "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" by Eric Carle...

...and then made our own caterpillar out of construction paper!

We took our cars through a car wash (Owen's latest obsession!). This was by far his favorite activity over the past few weeks!! We used some of Justin's shaving cream to clean our cars and I made a "wiper thing" but cutting up an old rag and tying pieces of it to the end of a spoon!  It worked great! :)

Homemade car stamps using bottle tops and foam stickers!

I have been saving small containers with tops over the past few months for this activity. He had to match the top with the correct container and then had to screw on the top! This activity was a lot of fun and I'm still collecting different size bottles.

We made the letter "C" by gluing Cheerios on some paper.  He did great with this activity and glued the cheerios all by himself!

I had some leftover cupcake stickers from Grace Ann's birthday invitations so we sorted them by color!

We made a crab using our hands! I don't really like to use "real" paint that often, so Owen really enjoyed this craft!

I dumped some Cheerios into a big bowl and hid some letter "C's" in there for him to find with his "grabber". Once he found them, he stuck them on some construction paper.

We practiced cutting on the white line of some paint chips! He is doing so well with his cutting! I think I need to buy this boy some left-handed scissors! :)

Dot Paint!! We read a Cookie Monster book and then painted Cookie Monster using blue dot paint.

Our bulletin board will some of our crafts we made for the letter "C"!