Last Day of School!!

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!

June 16, 2016

 Noah's last day of kindergarten compared to his first day of kindergarten:

 Bella's last day of 2nd grade compared to her first day of 2nd grade:

 Paige's last day of 5th grade compared to her first day of 5th grade:

 Here comes the bus!

 Since this was Noah's first year of going to school, he now got to participate in the exciting "end of school" festivities!

 Box of fun summer things

 My kids love to do "just dance", but we only had the first one.  So I got 3 more off of amazon for really cheap.

 Maggie and Lydia on the bus ride home

 Lydia's last day of 7th grade compared with her first day of 7th grade:

 And Maggie's last day of 10th grade compared with her first day of 10th grade:

 The kids played Just Dance after school

 Part of their "Summer goodies" was that I had signed them up for free anytime bowling all summer long.  So, we went later in the afternoon. Garrett was able to get off early and meet us there.  Garrett's sister Meggin and her girls were in town because they were in the process of moving to Washington, so they came with Jim and Georgia.  

We went back to our house to hang out...kids did more Just Dance and we had take out chinese for dinner.  Pretty good start to the summer!

1st part of June

Wednesday June 1

 Paige was learning about the Oregon Trail and they had brought in this covered wagon and supplies to give the kids a better idea of what they were learning about.  

 Friday June 3rd

Garrett flew to Iowa the day before to watch Meggin's graduation from dental school.  He flew out Thursday and came back on Sunday.  His parents and his brother Josh also flew out to Iowa.  

 These are her girls, Amelia, Celeste and Hazel.  All red heads...so is her husband Jake.

 Jake and Meggin...what an accomplishment for Meggin!

 Josh, Georgia, Meggin, Jim, Amelia and Celeste

 Meggin and Garrett

 Josh, Meggin (twins, by the way) and Garrett

Saturday June 4th

Our Primary had a popcorn party that we decided to have at the park.  The kids earned it by bringing their scriptures to primary every week.  It was fun...we just had them play at the park and then we let them eat popcorn for the last 10-15 min.  The whole thing only lasted about an hour.  

 It was such a hot day that some of my kids' friends, who live in the neighborhood, decided that they wanted to have a water balloon fight.  So they all came over to our house and filled up balloons and ran around throwing balloons at each other.  When the balloons ran out, they played in the sprinklers.  I am so grateful that we have so many good friends that live close by!

 My friend Ashley came over to help with the balloons...she had two boys over here playing.  

 She started throwing buckets of water onto the kids...they loved it!

 Paige and Bella's friends stayed and did Just Dance 

 and karaoke

Meanwhile, back in Iowa...Jake and Meggin rented a pontoon boat and everyone was out on the lake cruising around.

 Little Miss Hazel

Tuesday June 7th

 I don't even know...

 Maggie got her braces off today and this is the only picture I have of her that day.  Look how beautiful her teeth are!  She had braces on for 2 1/2 years.  Her teeth were really bad.  

This is from the day that she got them on.  

Saturday June 11th

 We were driving home from dinner somewhere and someone took these amazing pictures...from the car.  Impressive, right?  We live in such a beautiful place!

 Tuesday June 14th

 Lydia had this big project due in Social studies and had to dress up like the person she was doing the project on.  Garrett was out of town and wanted to see it.  

 That night the youth had a Temple Trip.  Beautiful Portland Temple and beautiful YW!