Last day of 6th Grade!

Whew!  A lot of time has gone by since I blogged last.  I have no reason other than I guess I just didn't have much to say LOL - so I may not go backwards all the way but might just do some fill in posts.

So I'm starting at the end.  The end of the 6th grade.  Mikayla had her best year ever.  She has great friends, did well academically - it felt like she was able to get it all together.  Best teachers ever! I could go on and on but suffice it to say we are both in mourning about the year being over. She just really rocked it this year!

 Here is her first and last day comparison....

 

I love the fun picture below.

 

In the two pictures below she was presented her academic awards. 

 

 

 

Our beloved Mr. D.  I wish we could have him for home-room again next year but at the very least "we" will have him for theology.

 

Fr. Sean - The man, the myth, the legend right here.

 

Principal C - he has changed the school in so many ways, it was pretty great before but it's even more so now.

 

There we have it - the end of the year.  Below Mikayla is with some of her very best friends and they were all going out to celebrate the last day of school together (even though Mikayla wasn't happy it was the last day LOL).

 

First Day of 6th Grade!

Whoa....how did this happen....where has the time gone :(

The cheerleaders were invited to perform on the first day of school - Oh gosh they did an AMAZING job!!!  They did really great!!!!

 

Our traditional first day pictures!

 

Our new Principal!

 

 

 Our beloved 2nd grade teacher!

 

 

(2nd grade) (waaaaaaaa)

 

 

The room is filling up!!! 

 

 

Cheerleaders are practicing

 

Room is still filling up.

 

 

Holy smokes!!!!!  Look at all these people!!!

 

Our first year, first day.... granted I didn't take a group picture but this picture was shortly before the group was called to order....the parents moved to the back of the room.... and this is all that is what was left over.....

 

and now look at it.....  It's truly amazing, that it is the 4th year of this schools existence and they went from 120ish enrolled the first year to 450+ this year!!!!  AMAZING!!!  We are pretty excited to be a part of it!

 

 

Here is the girls cheer, they have worked really hard!  Click here to watch

 

So just like that.... our baby had her first day of middle school.... I think I'm going to live in denial for awhile that she's growing up on me so fast.

 

She got in the car after her first day and said "this is going to be a great year!"  she is FIRED up!!!!!

 

Summer crafty time

Summer started with me making the "spirit shirts" for the cheer team (a total of 13 of them), that was AWESOME!!!!  I really loved making them.

 

 

Since I'm officially a cheer mom....I'm jumping right in...I decorated all of the cheer bows too!  OMG that was a labor of love but I am SOOOOOO happy with how they turned out.

 

Here they are in progress....

 

 

More progress....

 

 

DONE!!!!

 

 

 

Back to school bulletin boards - the polka dot one - the teacher finished by adding names into the "bubbles"....

 

 

 

 

a little door décor!

 

 

One more bulletin board....the school's theme is "FROG"  Fully Rely on God.

 

 

 

More dog hanging out, she wanted me to show you....

 

 

 

 

Knock knock..... hello....anyone there??

I cannot believe the last post I made was the last day of school and here we are already back IN school!!! 

 

We had a great summer.... it went so fast!!  Just as I quit the count down, it was time to start counting down the days again!  Here is the short version of what we did...

 

Totally random - but we held pigs....at my office!!

 

 

Went camping in and it was hotter than hades..... HOLY HOTNESS!!!!

 

 

Went canoeing

 

 

Dogs hung out too

 

 

Mikayla had a week of cheer camp at school.

 

 

 

 

 

 

She won the "shining light award" The coach really picked up on what I tell Mikayla all the time about how she is soooo full of light and spirit....

 

 

 

 

became bat people for a day

 

Lots of picnics

 

 

 

 

Dogs still relaxing....

 

 

 

 

Silly days

 

 

Bring your dog to work for the dog days of summer.....

 

 

Dogs reunited and yes.... still hanging out.

 

 

We swam a lot, played a lot, and hung out a lot!  Perfect perfect perfect!!!!!  So now that summer break is over, I'll do better at blogging our where abouts!  :)