School's Out for Summer!

After we got back from Colorado, there was only a couple of weeks left before school got out.  It was a busy time with field trips, teacher gifts, programs, class parties, etc.

Malea got to go on two different field trips during the last week of school.  The first one was to the Hogle Zoo up in SLC.  This one I was a little bit more nervous about because it was so far away and I was nervous about her getting lost or separated from her group.  I would have liked to go on the field trip with her but I guess there were tons of mom's who signed up so they didn't need anyone else. :(  She had fun though and from what I was told, she fell asleep on the bus ride home :)

Malea's sack lunch :)

The second field trip she got to go on was a trip through downtown Springville.  The kids got to go to different places on main street, including Allen's grocery store, the library, the fire station, and then ending at the splash pad.  I met with them with Isaac at the fire station and splash pad so that Isaac could play too.

My kids had great teachers/helpers this year so we wanted to do something special for all of them.  Isaac's class in particular had lots of helpers, between the speech therapist, the OT, the aide's and the bus driver, so we had lots of treats to give out!

For each of the kids' actual teachers, we gave them a s'more kit and a roasting stick with a little note that said "We need 's'more' teachers like you!"  

For the "helpers" we gave a can of A&W rootbeer and a mounds candy bar with a note that said "'Mounds' of thanks for all you've done this year!  You're 'AW'esome!"

For Isaac's last day of school we got to go to his little class party.  We helped make little hand puppets, listened to a story, and sang a song.

Isaac giving his thank you treats to everyone.  We're sad that Isaac is switching to a new school next year so he won't get to see them next year!

Isaac with Mr. Wald, his speech teacher.  He has done amazing work with Isaac this year!

Isaac with is awesome bus driver, Frankie!  We just love her!

Malea on her last day of Kindergarten!  I can't believe how grown up she is and that she's going to first grade next year!!!

Malea giving Mrs. Thomas her gift.  We are lucky Malea got to have Mrs. Thomas because she won't be teaching at Sage Creek next year!

On the last day, the Kindergarten classes put on a darling little end-of-year program.  I learned my lesson with the Halloween program they did not to bring Isaac this time so I took him to day care :)  Love him to death but he is really hard at things like this!

Saying "bye" to friends she made this year!

Malea with classmates who are also neighbors!

After her program, the two of us went out for frozen yogurt.  I am so proud of my big girl!

The next week Isaac finished off his last day of play group.  He just loves Teacher Lynda and his "animal school" as he calls it!  They got to have a fun water party!

Isaac wanted a picture with the bunnies :)

Graduation Trip: Part II

Wow, summer is going by SO fast!!  I can't believe it's been over a month since I last blogged.  We have been keeping busy doing lots of fun summer activities, so I don't regret it one bit.  It has been so nice being done with school and just spending the whole summer with my kids.  I don't want it to end!

Ok, so here's the rest of our Colorado trip:

After graduation we headed up to Denver to stay with Keith's sister Jenn and her family for a couple of days.  My mom and step-dad headed up there with us but stayed in a hotel nearby.  We had fun visiting with them and the kids enjoyed playing with their cousins. 

As I mentioned in my previous post, we were in Colorado over Mother's Day weekend.  We got to Jenn's on Saturday evening and so the next day was Mother's Day.  When I woke up, Keith gave me my gift which was a cute little journal that he wrote in instead of a card.  He said that he wants to re-use it every year instead of doing cards that we eventually throw away or lose.  I thought that was a cute idea and very thoughtful.

Isaac found this little sponge bob hat in with Jenn's kids' toys and decided that he was going to wear it 24/7 for the next couple of days, lol.  Drew was a good sport and let him wear it but we reassured him that Isaac wouldn't be taking it home.  

Alex and Isaac playing together.....Isaac is older than Alex by almost a year and yet I think Alex was just as tall if not taller than Isaac!  

Malea and Lily had lots of fun playing together.

While we were there we planned to take the kids to the Denver zoo but then Colorado decided to dump a bunch of snow on the state (so crazy, it was the middle of May!) so we ended up taking the kids to the Denver Aquarium instead.  We had to stop and get the kids some rainboots since we didn't come prepared for snow!  Caught this cute picture of the kids riding the little coin-operated horse at Walmart :)

It was COLD!  Brrrr!

Diver Malea

Diver Isaac

Diver Keith (nice face, lol)

Diver Kenzie

The kids got to make their own geodes!

  You can kind of tell that Malea had been crying in this picture....as you can see in the picture above, you get to use the lever to break the rocks in half to make the geode. Well when we first got up to it there was a little boy who's parents had just paid to do it and Malea (who was overly excited and wasn't thinking) jumped in front of him and did the lever so the little boy wasn't able to.  We got mad at her and explained what she did and she just started crying because she felt so bad.  I felt bad after that we got mad at her because she really didn't mean to and didn't know.  {She is really sweet that way and is the type that would never intentionally try to hurt someone.} We offered to pay for another one but the parents of the little boy were really nice about it.  Then we ended up paying for the kids to get one.  

Purdy :)

Lots of cool stuff to see!

The kids got to put their hands in the sting ray pool!

So the first time through we barely missed the Mermaid show so we decided to take the kids through again and waited to watch the show.  It was really cool!

The kids loved it!  They had a cute little scripted show about the importance of keeping the environment clean.  You can see Isaac and Malea right there in the bottom front.  I was so impressed with the women that got in that water and did the show, they must have to be really goods swimmers!

I thought it was funny the turtle wanted to be in the show too!

As we were leaving there was this really cool looking cat out on display.  It was called an African Serval (sp?)  Very cool!

A picture out the back window of Jenn's house.....this wasn't even as much as they got, it was even more than that!

One of the days we took the kids to my mom and step-dad's hotel to swim before they left to head back to Utah (they left a day earlier than us).  They took off pretty much right after we swam and the poor things got stuck on I-80!  The road closed right after they got on and they were pretty much stuck until the road opened back up.  Dang snow!

Before we headed home we stopped to see Keith's Grandma and Grandpa Walker in Longmont.

Isaac playing with Grandma's dog Xena

Isaac checking out Grandpa's cool cane

Caught this cute picture of Isaac hugging Grandpa Walker, just about missed it with little miss photo bomber!

I have no idea how kids can sleep in car seats like that!

Glad to be home!