Back to School 2015

Summer flew by this year and the kids were back in school! This was a special year for Chase as he started kindergarten! The Sunday before school starts we always have a Back to School dinner. I always make these pencil treats (Rolos covered in yellow paper with a Hershey's kiss glued on the end) and cover the table with paper. Our kids look forward to it! Especially because we leave the paper on for the first week of school so they get to color and draw at every meal!

 This year we had alphabet chicken nuggets, french fries, apples, root beer, and I can't remember what else. :) This is also the time where we talk about the upcoming year, goals, rules, and tell the kids about our family scripture motto for the year. This year Robert and I chose 3 Nephi 12:16.

 There she goes!

 Just for amusement. :)

 It was a little strange that first day of kindergarten when two kids were at school, one at tumbling class, and it was just me and this guy!!

 Our table paper at the end of the week.

Summertime 2015

Sometimes I think summer is just as busy as the rest of the year. The only difference is there's no break from the kids!! Haha. This year we had each of the kids (except Logan) do a special summer activity or camp. Emily took a 3 day dance intensive, a week-long tumbling camp, and a Chinese summer camp. Chase did a week-long summer camp at the aquarium. And Carly did the week-long tumbling camp as well. We also kept up on all the regular activities (dance, tumbling, piano, karate, swimming lessons, etc). It was full but fun!

The aquarium and the girls' tumbling is about half an hour away from our house so instead of driving back and forth we would try to entertain ourselves on the south end of the valley when those camps were happening. It got tough! We went to Scheels, the park, library, grocery store, aquarium, any other fun/free place I could think of!

 This cracks me up. I took this picture to show Robert that they were listening so intently to Abe Lincoln and then I noticed that they are standing the exact same way!

 Free books for completing the library's summer reading challenge. We go to the library a lot in the summer!

 Chase got his yellow belt!

Summer flew by in a flash!