School's Out For Summer!

Wow! What a busy last few weeks of school we had!
First was the kids awards program at school,
Christopher had the 3rd highest GPA in his class! Whoop!

He also got awards for Straight A Honor Roll, and for having Diligence as an outstanding character trait, as well as perfect attendance.

Makayla got awards for perfect attendance, B Honor Roll and having responsibility as an outstanding character trait.

We are really blessed by our smarties!

 

 

We took lots of field trips the last few weeks of school including going to the movies to see Epic, going bowling, going to Wildcat Bluff Nature Center

                          Going to Paramount's game room for Makayla's end of the year party

He totally reaps the benefits of having to tag-a-long!

 

We celebrated Christopher's summer birthday with his class.

 

 

 

There were end of the year gifts to make..

"We hope you have S'more and S'more fun this summer"


 

Makayla had her end of the year dance recital at Amarillo Little Theater, the theme was "Disco Fever"

 

 

Have I mentioned in the middle of all this there was a stormy night that involved me waking the kids out of a dead sleep and driving to the tornado shelter?! That storm produced this hail!! It was a crazy night but we were just thankful to be safe.

 

School got out for summer vacation yesterday afternoon and it was bittersweet. We have been so blessed these last few months with the teachers and staff at Vista Academy. They really helped our kids adjust quickly. Our kids made friends fast and really love it. We were blessed with two wonderful teachers. Makayla's teacher wrote a note to her class saying one thing each kid had taught her this year and beside Makayla's name was written "taught me to acknowledge my own flaws before blaming others"     Talk about cry! First, I am so proud of our daughter and that at 11 years old she taught a grown up this wonderful lesson. Second, because her teacher took the time to write all this out and we are very excited that she is moving up with the kids next year to teach 6th grade!

How did we celebrate the start of summer?? With summer haircuts of course!

Yes, this haircut rocks!!


 

and dinner with my dad for his 66th birthday

 

We are looking forward to all the trips and fun things we have scheduled this summer. We will be having a blast and making some memories!