August happenings

Helping Daddy set up his new classroom

Strider and I got smartphones!

When your teen son asks for a selfie, you oblige

Parades

Water and homemade slip 'n slides

Rodeo! 

Football is back

Back to school feast - a new tradition

School shopping

First day of school treat!

A whole year older...

5/5 gone.  And my life will never be the same.

New year, new places

First day of school 2013-14

                                                       Oh my word, look at my sophomore.

(I remember being a sophomore, if that matters to anybody)

Bugs is a proud 8th grader

Jedi is in 6th

Cutie Princess in 3rd this year

And just like that, they're gone.

Off to big scary schools that I'm not familiar with.  Halls that I've never seen.  Teachers I've never heard of!

I get to hang with this little one today and for the (short) next year till she hits the big K.  (She's helping me make a back to school pencil cake for the kids).  

Happy new school year!

Time for an update

As we scrambled around trying to move, packing kept getting interrupted by scouts, sports and end of school stuff.  In one glorious week, here's what went down.

Jedi advanced from cubs to scouts 

 Jedi sang in concerts and programs

Princess did a recitation on the Civil War during her "museum"

Potter was showered with multiple end of year Drama dept. accolades

Jedi had more baseball.  Since that week, Jedi has now finished another championship season with the Yankees.  17-1 and first place!  He got better and better and ended the season with a stellar game where he went 3-3 at the plate and had a nice play in the outfield.  

Potter auditioned for Show Choir and made it (not as fruitless as it would seem - more on that in another post).  Here he was kidnapped at 5:30am. 

 Bugs had his spring band concert

Half an hour later he became a Star Rank in Boy Scouts

The Bishop presented Potter with the On My Honor award for Duty to God and Scouting

AND we saved the best for last:

He passed :)