School's Out For Summer... well sorta

I was debating on whether or not I wanted to post this on my family blog or on my homeschool blog and I decided that this was the place for it to go since it's not homeschooling and I'll have a TON of homeschooling pictures coming soon since Alyssa's already ready to tackle 3rd grade. I'm not going to be teaching them hard core during the summer but bits and pieces to see where they are and get them to where they need to be if they aren't there yet, which they probably are ready to go.

Here are some of the pictures we took at their "celebrations" at their school on the last day. Enjoy!

Samara and her best friend Isaiah.
Samara and her teacher. We are so proud of Samara!! And her teacher did a wonderful job this year!

Nattie thinks she should be able to join her sister in whatever she's doing since she is "big" enough. She says, "I know what to do and I will be a big girl!" Haha. Usually she's right but this time there was no way she was going to be allowed to go stand by Samara while Samara was doing her songs, etc at her celebration. Sorry Nattie Grace, maybe next year!

Samara holding her certificate! So excited!!

Alyssa's teacher did a slide-show presentation for the families and then let each of us take a DVD of it home. She is so thoughtful. I'm so proud of Alyssa, she did an excellent job this year. There were so many obstacles that she had to face, some of which she didn't know how to handle, but when it was said and done I think she showed 2nd grade who was boss! Hehe.

Nattie and Alyssa waiting for the presentation to start. So cool.

Alyssa giving her teacher one last hug before hitting the door.

Alyssa and one of her good friends since last year, A.J.

Alyssa, Samara, and Natalie, we are so proud of all three of you girls. You are such sweet girls and love to learn. I am so glad that Daddy and I get the opportunity to help you through life. I hope and pray that you will learn and grow all that you need to know and I have no doubt that you will do great things with your lives! Thanks for being AWESOME!!!

Oh and I put School's Out For Summer... well sorta as the title because technically school's out but it's only been 2 days and I've already gotten asked about a million times if I could teach each of the girls. Yes, they really do LOVE to learn.

Jungle Beat

Micah's going to be helping me get some videos of this up on here but for now pictures will have to do. Alyssa was in a Musical at her school for all of second grade. She did fantastic!!! I'm so proud of her. They did a dress rehearsal for the school and she told me, "Mommy, I messed up." I said, "That's okay, what happened?" She said, "I was supposed to be mad and sad and scared when I was swallowed by the boa constricter but I smiled the whole time!" haha... my daughter is precious!

All of the second graders!

Alyssa standing by the poster announcing her Musical.

There she is in her Jungle Beat get up.
She was one of the smallest in her grade so she was 1 out of 5 that got a part being swallowed by a boa constricter.

After being swallowed. I have the whole video of this and like I said before if my husband will help me I will post it. It's ADORABLE!

Singing away!

There are 7 classes at the school and 23 kids in each class. THAT'S A LOT OF KIDS!!! They really did a great job!

School Days

The kids were getting ready for school yesterday and it was just too cute. They pick out their own clothes every morning and get ready all by themselves. They really do a great job. I thought I'd take some pictures of them because they were being so darn cute!

This is Natalie. She gets up just as we are ready to go to school. Yesterday morning she was really groggy but I already had my camera out so I had to take a picture or two of my littlest princess. She was really sleepy.

Samara's become a little fashion diva. She says she knows what she wants to wear and that everything she picks out is cute. I think she's right too! She was super energetic and ready to go.
Alyssa loves to pose now so here's one of her new ones. She said it was Friday so she wanted to be comfortable. She says when she wears this shirt it's like she's a librarian and since she wants to be a teacher someday... she really likes looking like a teacher now.

The three beautiful princesses! Nattie didn't even want to look at the camera but I finally convinced her for this ONE picture. Thank you Nattie Grace!

Alyssa was getting ready to leave but when she looked out the window she was in awe of the sky. Who wouldn't be!?! It was beautiful. She kept saying "take a picture, take a picture!" I had to take a couple pictures for her. I told them that God had painted the sky and that he was an artist so the whole way to school they kept saying that God was so good at art and that they just loved the way God painted the sky. Even on the ride back home Nattie couldn't stop talking about the way God was such a great artist. It was too cute.

Then I went into the girl's room and found them still in bed. Well, not really but their life-sized dolls were in the girl's beds. It was too cute! Thanks Mama Jay and Papa Oz for their dolls that are HUGE! They are enjoying them for sure. The picture above is Alyssa's bed.

This is Samara's bed.

The girls being back in school has been going well this week, except that Mara came home the other day bawling again that she missed me so much. What do you say to that?!? I love my little girl and I miss her so much while she's at school too. We talked about it and she's okay now. Bless her heart.