Last Day of School 2014

First Day of School 2013

Last Day of School 2014 

One more school year DONE, and what a great year it was!

Avery made great strides this year in terms of her confidence and is no longer afraid of riding the school bus.  She also grew in leaps and bounds with her reading and math skills.  She is one of those kids who loves doing homework and is super responsible.  We sure do love our little lady.

Cael was asked to be tested for the Extended Learning Program (ELP) which is a program for academically talented and gifted kids.  They test the top 4% of kids in the district based on test scores.  Considering there are roughly 700 kids in the 3rd grade in our district we felt this was a huge honor and achievement!  Unfortunately, he just missed the cut off and did not qualify for the program - only the top 2% of those tested quality.  He also found his "funny" side this year and was a bit of a class clown - not entirely surprising.

We were grateful that the kids had awesome teachers, and made good friends.  I say this every year - but it is so crazy to me to think that I will have a 4th grader, 2nd grader, and kindergartner next year!  I thought I would always miss the "baby stage", but I am really loving this stage of life.  My kids are turning into such fantastic, interesting, and funny people!  We are blessed...

 We have a tradition that on the last day of the school we get ice cream at the local ice cream shoppe.  However, the place is always packed to the brim, so this year we went to Panerea for bagels instead.  After enjoying yummy bagels we got a dose of "suburban nature" and took a walk around the lake at the mall.  The kids had a great time feeding the ducks and fish and looking for frogs.  We saw some super cute baby geese being protected by a hissing, aggressive mamma which the kiddos thought was hilarious!

 SCHOOLS OUT FOR SUMMER!!!!!