We just attended the cutest graduation tonight. Mandy graduated from Pre-School! She's officially headed into Kindergarten next year. It was so cute. She's our third child to graduate from Miss Merlen's pre-school. Miss Merlene is such an awesome teacher. She truly loves the children, and you can tell. The kids sang songs, they each had a speaking part, they each got to pass out props for their songs, and the evening ended with the kids in caps and gowns, tassels and all! It was adorable.
Lisa's favorite part of the evening was sitting in a camp chair all by herself like a big girl (which lasted for about 10 minutes), eating Blackberries (the phones, not the fruit), and getting a rice krispy treat at the end. Miss Merlene also had a kid with galactocemia, and we had a good time swapping stories.
The kids were very well behaved.
It's been a crazy week, and next week will be worse. It's been one event after another for school ending. I'm actually trying to put together a color coded calendar to try and keep it all straight! It's crazy.
Wednesday was the Dance Festival. That was great. Each grade performs an ethic dance from a culture they had studied that year. We had everything from a Polish dance to the Mexican Hat Dance, Polynesian, Greek, Irish, Hawaiian, Western, and hip hop (the hip hop dance group did that, that wasn't a culture the kids studied). The kids all did great. Jeffrey's class did a Polish dance where the boys got to run around with fake axes. They really liked that. The 8th graders (all 17 of them) had a great time too. They did a Polynesian dance. The guys got to go shirtless and paint themselves with war paint, which they thoroughly enjoyed. The girls got to wear shorts to school, wear a grass skirt, and bang drums. The guys and girls alternated with the girls banging drums and the guys grunting a chant and banging and stomping and the girls doing a hula style dance. It was awesome. All of the kids did well.
Today was Field Day. You can tell my kids are unusual by their reation to field day. I have kids begging me for weeks to not make them go to school that day. The kids are all divided up in to "houses" Harry Potter style and then compete for their house for a stuffed fish. Aparently it gets pretty competitive, and my kids hate that. I get questions like "Why should I bother trying to win a stuffed fish for my house? What's the point of that?". Fortunately for Sara and Megan they got to skip out with the older grades and go play at the Lehi pool, but I got complaints from the other 6 (mine and Kimberly's) the whole way home.
Coming up Monday night we have Sara's Drama group's performance of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Tuesday is Sara's graduation and upper grade party, and Wednesday is the last day of school. I'm not quite ready for having all of the kids home, but it will be nice to not spend my day driving all over Utah county and having to worry about schedules. I will have to feed them though, and that presents a challenge. We'll see how it goes. I guess the money I save on gas is going to be spent on food.
As far as the Real Estate classes go, I found out there are 44 classes and each one is 2 1/2 hours long. So I'm going to try and get it done this summer instead of by June. It's more intensive than I thought. I'm learning a lot though. It's a lot of law and a lot of legal terms, but I've seen a lot of it before and so I'm at least familiar with it.
Oh, and I got a calling! Relief Society Bulletiin Specialist. I love their titles. I put together a weekly flyer with info about the Relief Society (songs, lessons, birthdays, announcements), as well as a monthly calendar. Piece of cake! Peter got released from all of his callings because the bishop said we had enough on our plate. Then the bishop turned around and gave me a calling (I haven't had one in a little over a year) but made it be an easy one. It's great. I love our bishop!
In the mean time, we're halfway through the birthday month. Mandy's birthday is May 5th, Sara's is the 15th, Julia's is the 31st, and Lisa's is June 6th. So we have 4 birthdays in 1 month. It's a very expensive month. Thanks to Dad for contributing cash to the cause. The kids have all had very good birthdays so far. On top of that, Julia is getting baptized on June 5th, and there's a baby blessing on June 6th (same day as Lisa's birthday). We're also going to Dad's house on the 31st to celebrate Memorial Day. I'm kind of looking forward to June 7th. I think I'm going to take the day off and read a book.
Poor Stephanie though. She sees what to her seems like all of her siblings having a birthday, and she's constantly asking me when is it her birthday. Poor girl. When I explain, she asks if she can move her birthday to May so she can have a party too. It's hard to explain "You're birthday isn't for 5 more months" to a 3 year old.
Well, I'm getting tired just reading this post. I think I'll quit here and save you from the rest of the details!
When are you going to write again? This stuff is sooooooooo funny! Can you do us all a big favor and write at least once a week? That would be excellent, everyone likes to laugh at your crazy posts! Oh... you forgot to mention that the eighth graders never really had a teacher to teach them any dances, our teachers were upstairs teaching the sixth graders how to draw (Okay... Mrs. Cisneros helped a little). So anyway, remember to write more often, it's June now and I need a laugh!
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