End of School Fun

Alan's Cultural Fair

Toward the end of the school year, Alan worked hard on a cultural project. He picked a country from his heritage to research and learn about. Alan chose Scotland, and worked very hard finding out information about Scottish culture. He learned about his ancestors from Scotland and some Scottish traditions. He wrote a little report and had to put together a cultural suitcase containing items about Scotland.

Here is Alan's "cultural suitcase." He decorated it with the Scottish flag, pictures of Scottish landmarks, and the Robertson crest and map of the Robertson clan.

Headed to school with his suitcase!

We got to visit his classroom and see Alan's suitcase.

All of the kids in the class did a great job of presenting their suitcases. It was fun to hear about all of their different cultures!

Joy School Graduation

Lucy ended the year with a fun Joy School Graduation. We had a great group of kids this year and they had a lot of fun together. At the end of the year we presented them with their diplomas and all about me books. So proud of these cute kids!

James' Author Day

At the end of the school year, we also got to go into James' classroom and celebrate an Author Day with him. He presented a lot of the work he had done throughout the year. It was amazing to see the progress in his writing and journals from the beginning to end of his kindergarten year. They had some special snacks and we got to see pictures of their year as well. James has loved kindergarten and it was a fun way to end the year.

And here is the bus stop crew on the last day of school! What a fun kindergarten and 2nd grade year!

Ditson Fun Run

This spring the boys school did a fun run as their fundraiser. It was a new event and turned out to be really fun. The kids each got shirts and ran 32 smallish laps. As they lapped around we marked off each lap on the back of their shirts. It was fun to see all of their energy and encourage them to keep running! The event also turned out to be the biggest fundraiser in school history, raising over $26,000 for the school. The principal had said that if they raised $25,000 she would shave her head. I don't think she thought they'd make that, but they did. So a few weeks later, they had an assembly and got to do that.  Here are a couple of pictures of the boys and their classes at the fun run! Great job kids!

Spring Sports

This spring Alan decided to try a new sport...flag football. And he loved it. James continued on with soccer and got to be with the same coach and team he's been with for the last two years. Both boys had a lot of fun and we had a lot of fun watching them!!!

Spring Randoms

Here is a random group of photos from springtime!

Cleaning the church with friends! We are going to miss them.

James made these "silver plates" at church

Then he and Alan came home and made more plates on their own while I took a nap. :)

It was really cute. Here are some of the things they wrote on their plates(with toothpicks)

James has also started to read the scriptures on his own.

Lucy with her proud creation at our monthly trip to the lego store.

The boys with their car mini builds

Alan had an awesome geography unit at school where they learned about the 7 continents by travelling to different continents in different classrooms. He loved it. He came home with some aborigine paint from Australia

Alan loves to play football, and he doesn't think being quite pregnant is a good excuse for not playing with him. :)

I know this is really out of character, but James didn't want his picture taken here. :)

Opening gifts on Mother's day

Alan is finally getting big enough to help with some outside jobs!

He did a great job week whacking after daddy mowed the lawn

These two helped daddy put together this stool one night when I was away and sent me this picture to show their success.

Sunday reading time with Dad!

I love this picture! They were so excited to try the mac n'cheetos at Burger King. We took a special trip to try the macaroni and cheese filled cheetos. And then it turned out they were pretty bad. I don't think anyone, save Scott, ended up liking them in the least bit.

We got to babysit Gidget for a week while Grandma and Grandpa were away. Here she is in her princess tiara.

And it seems that Lucy thinks her cage is a good place to play on the kindle.

James was pretty excited about finding this four leaf clover!

Thanks to Lucy for taking this belly pic. :)

Decorating Grandma and Grandpa's house to welcome them home from their trip!

A fun FHE treat at Mac's Dairy Farm

We actually got a good amount of strawberries this year. I think maybe gidget helped keep away the bunnies!

And here we are on Father's day!

And here are some of the things that the kids made for their dad. :)