Where did the time go?

I can't believe it is the end of the school year already! Believe me, I am so glad to be done with school and so glad it is summer!  These are a few of the events that took place the last month of school:

Preschool ended.  I had 5 kids this year and it was a good group as in they got along for the most part.  I had a little graduation party the last half hour.  I had leftover treats from my piano recital, sugar cookies with fresh raspberries and cake pops that I turned into graduation hats.

Kyler, Annie, Megan, Abby and Kaden will be missed but they will all do great in Kindergarten!

They got me these beautiful flowers and some gift cards which I so appreciated!

Taz. He is so hard on his stuff.  A couple of weeks before the end of school he came home with his Converse looking like this.  They had completly ripped out.  Of course that shouldn't surprise me since his binder and backpack had been ripped and duct tapped for a few months.  I kept asking him if he wanted new ones, but he said no, he could wait until the end of the year.  But that was not the case with shoes.

The kids all got their yearbooks a week or so before school was out, this is how I found Taz looking through his.

They had an end of year awards ceremony and Taz got a gold presidential award which was given to those 8th graders who had kept their GPA's above 3.75 all three years of Middle School.  Here he is with his good friends (Twins) Andrew and Ryan Pappas.

These five boys played on the same tackle football team this past spring and they all became great friends.  Andrew, Michael, Taz, Patrick and Ryan.  And below that is Taz with Hansen, Mr. Nekoba and Lawson at their final 8th grade band concert. 

I sent Cynjyn to school with her camera the last week.  I told her to get a picture of her on the bus on her last day of ever having to ride the bus home from school.  So there she is with her good friend Kaylie who live a few houses down the street from us.  And below she is with Mrs. Hartman.  She so loved her class and teacher this year.  She had a very tearful last week.

Her 5th grade class was picked to put on a play for the whole 5th grade.  They were going to do Snow White.  The whole class worked on writing the play, making the scenery and practicing and performing.  Cynjyn was chosen to play Snow White.  Boy was she excited.  The whole play lasted about 15 min. and they did such a cute job on it. 

It was very humorus.  Here she is with Prince Charming.

A "dead" SW below.

SW getting "water" poured on her!

And the romance of hugging PC after he awakens her!

She was so proud of herself and she did an amazing job!

All 5th graders had to do a State project towards the end of year and of course she picked Oregon.  We had done this for Tanner and Taz and had a song all written for it and she performed it in front of the class and got an A of course.  Below she is bringing some geodes to show the class.

At the end of year assembly she got the A/B honor roll and out of 6-7 5th grade classes, only 6 5th graders received the Great American Award.  She was one of them.  She had to say the Capitols and States in alphabetical order, all the presidents in order of term served, recite the Gettysburg address, the preamble, the Star Spangled Banner and write the Pledge of Allegience with correct spelling and punctuation.  She was so proud of herself and was the only member in her class to get the award.

Another great ending to a great school year.  Now I have no more Elementary children!!