School is Out (all the way)

Erica was first to have her last day of school on May 15. She put on the same clothes as her first day. She wore a hole in the knees of these leggings and I have made them into shorts.

Frist day, August 2019

Last day, May 2020

 Then we went to the school where her teacher was waiting to hand her a bag of things she has worked on all year and a special present. Mrs. Chidester has taught all 3 of them and we love her.

 Erica was super emotional all morning about kindergarten ending and in such a tragic way. We took our time walking around the outside of the school and getting all the closure we could.

 And then we went camping up Diamond Fork with Justin's family. Henry got to try out his new tent and I ate a lot of smores.

 "Guns for sale!" Yup, still tired of hearing James yell that. You can get a stick gun for one rock. It's a good deal.

Sunday was my dad's birthday. We celebrated moving to yellow restrictions by doing this:

Friday May 22 was Sarah and Henry's last day.

First day August 2019

Last day May 2020

 Henry wouldn't humor me by putting on his same outfit but I have like 100 pictures of him in that blue shirt because he wears it most days so it's okay.

First day August 2019

Last day May 2020 

Rees had a last day of school parade where we were the parade! I asked Henry to take pictures but unbeknownst to me he took videos instead, starting with the drive over there. This is the clip with the most of the teachers. It's not great but it's all we've got. I'm proud that I went 2 minutes without yelling at my kids and I didn't even know he was recording!

And then we passed the 5th grade teachers and saw Sarah's name! Good job Sarah! They were supposed to have a big awards night with a fancy dinner but that didn't happen. Even after she knew there wasn't going to be a big reward, she finished all the requirements anyway.

She also found out that morning that she made Student Council for next year. There was a lot of happy jumping up and down in the kitchen. We are so proud of her. She filled out the application all by herself and had to submit a short video message of why she wanted to be on student council and all I did was hold the camera and email the file to her.

 

Then when Justin got home, we took them to Black Bear Diner. This is their favorite restaurant and they all ordered breakfast of course. They also went to the bathroom 9 times collectively.

They really wanted to go to a park in Orem but it was so windy and dusty when we left the restaurant. We went home for cookies and awards.

I guess I'm trying to compensate for the school year fizzling out to blah.

I bought my kids each a new book and a candy necklace, a sucker, sixlets and their favorite candy bar and put them in a bag for each of them.

Then they each got an award for what they did best that year.

 I tried to create suspense in announcing them one by one but they knew.

Erica: Happy about homework award. Sarah: Read enough minutes for everyone award. James: Best buddy award. Henry: On time award. 

And then we watched the next movie in our "expose our kids to the greatest movies of our youth that are borderline scary" series: Indian Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Arc.

I'd like to think it was unrelated that Henry came into our room 12 times in 40 minutes crying about how he couldn't sleep (he only watched like 20 minutes of the movie).