End of a School Year

School ended a week or so ago.  Not only was this the end of a regular year, this was the end of Rachel's elementary school career.  She's now finished with 5th grade and will move on to middle school in August!  She has had mixed feelings about it all.

Jackson finished 2nd grade and I was able to go to his Awards Day earlier in the week.  

Mrs. Boll was a great teacher!

Her walk-thru the school and awards/graduation was on Thursday of the last week.  

With Mrs. Reynolds, her kindergarten teacher!

Group of girls from her class being silly.

Rachel and her best friend, Haley.

Her teacher for the last two years, Mrs. Krueger.

And afterwards they had a pool party for the fifth graders.  

Then the next day was their last day of school.

This was their last day of going to the same school together until he's a freshman and she's a senior in  high school... Their last bus ride together... 

They both had a good year.  I know she has mixed emotions about going to middle school (excited, nervous, sad, happy, etc.) but I'm now looking forward to it.  I know she will do great!

Now on to summer!

Rachel's Birthday & Mother's Day

Mother's Day was nice this year.  Michael came home from his six day trip to Reno that afternoon but the kids helped to make the morning nice.  They made me breakfast and decorated the kitchen.  Not sure why the initial picture was so dark - sorry!  

And we went to dinner with Barbara and Dawson that evening at Texas Roadhouse.  

They were very glad to have their daddy back home.

Rachel is still loving sloths... We made sloth cookies to take to her class for her birthday.  

She turned 11 last week!  Yay!

The birthday girl!

Since Jackson has a summer birthday, I brought popscicles in for his class that same day to celebrate with him.

She picked Ipps for dinner that night.  

And we all went to Bruster's for ice cream over the weekend.  

Fairy Tale Ball

The whole second grade participated in a Fairy Tale Ball at school a month or two ago, but it took a while to get all of the pictures in.  They had to create their own crown and mask using several different materials.  And they all had to dress up for the day.  

He looked so handsome to start with but then his tie caused a problem and I didn't get any really good pictures of him that morning.  But he ended up happier and I'm thankful for other people there that got some good pictures of him having fun.

With his teacher, Mrs. Boll.