Eclipse

Nolan's Community

 2nd graders did a cute little project where they were learning about communities and his homework was to take pictures of some of his favorite places. 

Back to School!

 

Summer Wrap up

Room refresh in progress for Ollie's birthday. He has declared himself too grown up for bunk beds. :)

Happy birthday, Harry!

Crazy kid antics

Blue Grass/Brewery Date Night

HES specials team!

Tracy and James with Chet from The Daytripper

Legend of the Hippo

 Nolan's grade level did a performance on the Legend of the Hutto Hippo for their end of year show and it was delightful. Nolan had been telling me he really didn't want to go and didn't want to dress up, so I was oh-so-surprised when he fully sang every song and did every motion. (He is in the front row towards the right.) It was so cute, possibly compounded by the feeling he was not going to engage. I think the day of not participating in class performances is not far off, so I enjoyed this one immensely. 

The circus hippo has escaped from the train and is loose in the creek! 

Never fear, the townspeople will come to help!

Our across the street neighbor, Parker, taking his role very seriously.

Hooray! The hippo has been corralled and a town's identity is born! 

I can hear your applause from here! :) 

Welcome August!

Hello August! August is here and I am ready for it! 

We started back-to-school professional development August 3rd and I had so much fun connecting with my teacher buddies. My kids are ready (Ollie, just this morning, "Yeah, I think I am so excited about going back to school.") and I am ready. I am not sure if I am in the minority or majority, but I would love for my family to be in a year-round school. I think it would be so ideal to be in school for 6 weeks and have one week off, then summer would be shorter with only 4 or 5 weeks off in the summer. Between the extroverts, Sped kids, and emerging readers, it would be so ideal for my fam.  

Ollie has joined a select soccer team with 2 practices a week + a weekend game or tournament, Jon and I signed up to participate in a marriage class, Nolan starts swim lessons, Seth may choose to sign up for school sports, and our little church plant is growing. School starts on August 15th, so although we are all excited, it's about to get craaaaazy. 

Here's some pictures of my zany team!

Our school theme is Make Every Moment Count and I made some notebooks for my team.

Yay Cricut! 

And now.... I need to catch up from summer!

Kinder Fun

"Brown-E's" for April Fools

Buddy Reading

Butterfly Release

Petting Zoo

Mother's Day Breakfast and Performance

Field Trip to the Farm

Visit from fire crew

Visit from a very popular Forester and his buddy Smokey Bear. (I'll give you three guesses as to who is in the Smokey get-up....)

Field Day!

Crazy Hair Day

Kindergarten Circus and Graduation!

Official Grad Pic!

Last day!