Graduations

Sara graduated from the 5th grade this spring. We are now onto middle school! We are so proud of Sara and the wonderful year that she had. I have to brag about all of the awards that she received at her graduation. She got the President's Education Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement for the year, The Assistant Principal's Honor Roll for the last 4 weeks (all A's & B's), a Certificate of Participation in the County Arts Festival (Her art piece was chosen to display at the art festival for the county. One boy and one girl from each grade were chosen), Awesome Kid Award (super duper kid and a joy to have in class! One boy and one girl got this award from each class), Ravenous Reader Award for the 4th 9 weeks and The Ravenous Reader Award for the whole year (They have to read so many books and take a test on what they read, what score they get on the test is how many AR points they get. She achieved the goal! I was surprised at how few kids actually got this award. She loves to read and we usually have to tell her to put her book away and turn her light off at night so she can get some sleep. She just finished the whole Harry Potter series. Any suggestions on another series that she can start?) Sara with her friends in her class. This is a VERY rare moment that you will ever see Sara wearing pink.

We also had Jacob's Pre-K graduation. I did not get very good pictures of the graduation, but here's some after pictures. He had a wonderful year and learned so much! Now, we are onto Kindergarten. He's excited to go to the big school with his sisters.

Jacob with his teacher, Miss Corey

Jacob with his assistant teacher, Miss Keni. Look at that smile on his face, you can tell that he really liked Miss Keni. It's so fun to watch the kids grow up and reach these special milestones in their lives.

I did it!

David learned how to go down the slide at Sonic all by himself. He even figured out how to climb up the stairs to get to the slide. Yay!

A Very Belated Happy Birthday to Emily and Erica

Emily and Erica had their 9th Birthday in April. I can't believe that it's been 9 years since they were born. I have been having fun going through pictures lately and thought it would be fun to post some pictures from past years. Unfortunetely the pictures that I have scanned in before this point wouldn't upload. It's been an incredible 9 years and I'm excited for many more! 4 years old

5 years old

6 years old

7 years old

8 years old

Happy 9th Birthday!!!

When we do our little family birthday celebration the kids get to decorate their own birthday cake. They have so much fun doing this that the activity has stuck and is now tradition. Erica is in the front and Emily is in the back.

The pinata was a dud. It broke on the first good hit by Erica, but the kids had fun getting the candy inside.

When the kids were diving in to get the candy David grabbed the bat and took off with it. He thought that he was being pretty sneaky.

Emily

Erica