Mother's Day 2022

May 8th was Mother's Day.  Ryan took the boys to the Wandering Apple and let them pick something out for me.  One of my gifts was this letterboard for the new house. So sweet!

That morning we had a flag football game.  After the game we went and ate lunch at Toot's with my parents.  I'm so mad I didn't get pictures of it!  I get pictures of everything!!! HAHA!  For dinner we ate Mexican with Ryan's parents.  

Thumb wars while waiting for food!

Nana and all her grands.

I love my boys!!! They are getting so big!  They need to stop growing!

Ryan with his mom and sister :) 

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there that I love! Even though everyday is Mother's day its nice to be celebrated once a year- hehe :)

 

Easter 2022

April 17th was Easter and the Easter bunny was good to the Barker boys this year!!

Reid

Kane

Liam

These were the cutest straws!! Hobby Lobby for the win!

Yearly Connection Group Easter picture.  Gets bigger every year!

First stop was for lunch and egg hunt with the Brasfield crew

Helping John Lytle find eggs.

Topped the night off with dinner and another egg hunt with the Barker crew

We had a wonderful day fulled with family and fun.  We spent the 12 days prior going through Resurrection eggs to learn about the events that led up to Easter to remember what this holiday is really all about.  He is risen!

Gymnastics

I promised Kane that once football was over I would get him enrolled in gymnastics.  Plus his cousins paid for a month of gymnastics for Christmas for him.  We found a place in Tullahoma - Tullahoma Gymnastics and Cheer or TGC- that had a boys class and signed him up!

  

He was such a good listener and stayed focused on what Coach Guy would ask of him. 

Reid signed up for the free trial class to see if he liked it.  He liked it but what he didn't like was the fact that his brother was better at something and it ate him up!!!!

The beginner class was very full and with 2 coaches it's hard to keep 6-8 little boys on task.  But Kane really tried to listen and follow directions and after just a couple weeks of class we were able to move up to the Intermediate Boys class.

As of now he is currently in the Intermediate class on Thursdays at 530.  There is only 1 other boy in that class at this time which has been good for us because the coaches can practically give 1 on 1 attention to them.  I have really seen Kane grow in his skills and he gets stronger and stronger every week.  

 

Flag Football

Reid has become so interested in football but we weren't ready to throw him into tackle.  With his small body size and lack of knowledge of the game we decided to try out flag football first.  We thought this would give him a better understanding of the game and hopefully less injury too.  We couldn't find a flag football league in our area so we opted for one in Murfreesboro.  Ryan really wanted to coach so he signed up too!  We asked the other two if they wanted to try it.  Liam is always up for trying out new sports to see if he likes it so he was in!  Kane said "absolutely not!"  He wants to try gymnastics. Ryan was hoping that they would be able to put both Reid and Liam on the same team but because they are in different age groups they wouldn't do it.  So they just made a him coach for both teams. 

Games started mid March, right before spring break. Games were on Sunday's.  Practices were always an hour before the game.  Since we had kids in two leagues that meant we were there for 4 hours every Sunday!!!!

Reid was on the Jaguars

Liam was on the Bengals

Reid LOVED it!  He played running back and was DANG good at it!  

He's a speedster! He scored a touchdown almost every game!

He made a new friend - KJ.  Both played the running back position.

Liam tried his hand at a couple different positions.  His favorite was center. 

Coin toss

Football pictures!!!

After the last game, Ryan took Reid's team to Sir Pizza for some celebration pizza.  These kids played their little hearts out and were there for practice during the week if Ryan got one together.  They ate soooo much pizza!!! Im not sure where they put it all!!

Ryan handing out their medals

At the last football game Liam had a hard fall and tried to catch himself with his left hand.  He asked to be taken out of the game for a little bit but then got back out and played.  The next day as school he landed on that same arm in gym which led us to take him to get a x-ray.  Come to find out he had a radial buckle fracture that required a fracture brace for 4-6 weeks.

Off to the next adventure ... never a dull moment around here!