End of the School Year!

Well. The boys have completed Second Grade and Kindergarten! And they have both had a fantastic year! Keagan ended the year getting several awards: Helping Hand Award (for always being willing to help), Math Award and a Reading Award. He really excelled academically this year and we couldn't be more proud! While Keagan did great in all the subjects, he blew me away in his math abilities. In the middle of the year Keagan was moved up to third grade math and at the end of the year he tested at a 5th grade math level!

Here are some pictures from Keagan's last day of school!

Finley also had a phenomenal year! He managed to get through the year with ZERO strikes!! (Strikes are part of the elementary school's behavior program. While there is a lot of positive reinforcement, strikes are also given for not following specific rules.) Anyone who knows Finley knows that zero strikes is a huge deal. We seriously do not know how he did this, because he is not necessarily an "easy" kid! But his teachers adored him and we are very thankful that Finley could hold it together and be a good boy during school!! Finley also got the "Chalk Award" for being a fantastic artist! Here are pictures from Finley's Kindergarten Promotion ceremony!

The next picture warms my heart. As the kids were receiving their promotion certificates they were asked to stop with their teacher and look at the audience for a picture. Well, Finn couldn't help himself. When he got to Ms. Denise he hugged her big! It threw her rhythm off a smidge but then she hugged him back big! The entire gym swooned with a loud "Awwwe!" And, yes, I cried during the above song and when I saw my boy walk across that stage (I actually realized the time will fly and I will be watching him graduate high school) and when his class was announced as the Graduating Class of 2031!

Ms. Denise's instructional aide, Mrs. Kia, had on the best shirt! She is retiring this year and as sad as we are that our girls won't get the chance to have her as a teacher (both boys had Mrs. Kia and Ms. Denise for kindergarten), we are super thrilled for her! And we are lucky because we will see her at church every Sunday!

Daddy was able to leave work to be at Finn's promotion, but unfortunately he had to get back to work before we could get pictures with the boys together.

This year the boys both were able to sign the "Wall of Fame" for earning 50+ good behavior tickets!

2nd Graders take on Discovery Park!

At the end of the year, BES second graders took a field trip to Discovery Park of America in Union City, TN. Josh and I were lucky enough to be able to chaperone a group of kids and we had a blast watching Keagan interact with his friends and classmates!

Here is our group! Our take-away from this day is neither Josh nor I can fathom how teachers handle it day-in and day-out! Four kids to the two of us was not easy!

These three goofballs got to ride home with their parents after the fieldtrip!  Maeci, Keagan, and Charlee...big buddies. It was a loud, stinky ride home. Josh and I sat right in front of them and there were multiple occasions where I would turn my head and have FEET in my face! ICK. 

Children's Tree 2019

My favorite tree in the whole wide world is our beautiful Japanese cherry blossom. It is a beautiful tree, but it is my favorite because I have watched it grow along with my children. And I have decided that if we ever move, the tree moves with us!

2019 Children's Tree pictures...man these kids are growing!!

Here is the annual lookback...starting in 2010 with sweet Keagan's birth. There are a couple of years that I either missed or cannot find the picture...