Last Day of School!!

The start of a glorious and incredibly busy summer.  The end of eternal substitute teachers for Nadia and a pretty good year for Rowan.  Here's hoping for an even better school year in 2016-17!

FUNraising

Every year our school hosts an Extravaganza to help raise money for the school.  Our family has grown to love and anticipate going.  It is so fun for the kids!  They have cake auctions, bounce houses, games galore, super cheap food, treats, soft serve ice cream.  This is the way fundraising should be done rather than obligate parents to buy cookie dough or wrapping paper.  It's an event where we want to spend money and everyone comes out a winner.

This year I helped judge the cakes that are decorated and made by the sixth graders.  The best decorated cakes go to auction where the whole community can bid to bring one home and the remaining cakes are given away as prizes in a musical chairs game. We ended up with a cake from both.  Rowan won a cake in the game and I bid on a castle cake that Nadia was enamored with.  You can tell by the pictures that she was VERY pleased it came home with us.

It didn't take us long to get sick of cake. 

Rowan's Unbirthday Party

Sometimes I love giving unbirthday parties and sometimes it is easy to let it fall through the cracks.  Rowan has been pretty good about reminding me to have one though and this year it took a little frangling with our schedule and his friends, but we got it done.  Boys are easy.  Pizza, root beer, laser tag, dessert and done!

Jacob, Austin, Rowan, Mateo, Josep, and Cooper all digging in and playing around in the backyard.  Some of the boys really wanted to utilize the Barbie Jeep, but I think we finally discovered its weight limit.

 

 The girls helped me clean up while the boys took off to do laser tag.  Sage washed things and Elsa ate things. 

 Steve admittedly had a grand time with the boys.  I guess in a way, this was his birthday party too.  They had the whole floor to themselves and spent an hour in there giving each other a run for their money.  Josep, is the smallest boy and apparently that gave him quite the advantage.  He curled up behind an obstacle and  had a lot of success by squirreling himself away and shooting anyone who came near him. 

Happy Unbirthday Son!  You are worth celebrating twice a year.