Wellllllll.... the blog got pushed to the bottom of the priority list since the prom post.
We had to start getting our house ready to sell, which was not fun, and its been listed all summer (blek, even more not fun keeping it clean with kids home for summer), have had lots of big decisions on our new house, and with 6 kids to boot, its been kicking my rear. Don't think the stress of it all leaves me no time to eat though. Why can't I be like those people who lose weight when they get stressed... instead of... well, the opposite??
But since this is our "Family Scrapbook"... here's to catching up.
We left off in Spring... so here are the 'Cliff Notes' of the end of the school year:
Ashlin's darling friends threw a surprise party for her and Lauren for their 17th Birthday (nooooooo time, STOP moving!)
End of the school year talent show. Logan played "Don't Stop Believing" on piano, and Emma sang "Love Song" while playing the accompaniment on the piano. They were darling.
Dallin informed me 10 minutes before 20 kids arrived that he had planned a party and invited a bunch of friends over to play "007".... True story: the first 4 guests had to help us quickly clean the house. ha ha. But I was just excited for him that kids really came. :) Big spring for Dallin, finishing jr. high and now going in to high school.
Lily dressed like the cutest 50's girl ever for "Decade Day" at school
Emma loved the Grand Canyon Field Trip with her sixth grade. Big year for goodbyes for Emma, no more elementary school! But she's excited for Junior High AND that she is so close to being allowed to wear make up. (RULE: No makeup until Jr. High)
Her wonderful 6th grade teacher whom she loved and told me daily funny stories about.
Logan got his BEAR award at Cub Scouts... now only a few more months in his moms den. (Sniffle Sniffle, I love being his Den Leader)
Lily just keeps losing teeth... but the picture below is actually to document that when she was sleeping out on the deck with her siblings one night she got like 20+ mosquito bites on her little face. It was so sad. This picture doesn't do it justice... multiple people asked me if she had the chicken pox.
Dallin did lots of helping Bruce with the low voltage wiring in our new house.
The end of the school year was a big one for Logan, because its his last at his elementary school. Even though he is just going in to 4th grade, he is switching schools. It was a hard decision, but we'll see how it goes. Here he is bringing a garbage bag of home popped popcorn for end-of-year party. (Bonus to owning an industrial popcorn popper is that when you forget you were suppose to bring a treat to share for the party, your always covered with popcorn, ha ha!)
Had to get pictures of Lily's LAST daddy/daughter Tandem bike ride to school that they did every wednesday last year (when weather allowed). She would look forward to his day off all week like the cutest stinking thing ever.
So the kids all said GOOD-BYE to another school year...
and hello to another summer!
Now that there is less than 2 weeks of summer vacation left, I am going to try to post daily to get caught up to date. Poor Logan said to me tonight, "Summer went by too fast". Always does. Same with life, and it makes me sad. I always say to myself that I'm going to stop committing to so much so we can just slow down and enjoy the ride.
