IMSC Championship Track Meet

Ra finished up his track season with the Independent Middle School Conference Track & Field Championships last week.  

He's been running the 1500/1600 this year.  He's been doing pretty well considering this is the first time he's really tried running for sport.

Pre Race pep talk from Coach Hamel

At the meet he ran the 4x800m relay.

The handoff!

He was on the B team and they finished in 2nd Place.  He got a medal from the meet for his relay!

This was his time from the 1500m race.  It was his best time ever!  I was so proud of him and how hard he ran.  He gave it his all and did a great job!

Another way this boy makes his momma proud - he says good job and nice race to the other runners!

We are so glad that he got to be a part of the track team this spring.  He realized that he does have an ability to run and run well.

2nd Grade Fun!

There have been a lot of fun activities going on in 2nd grade this spring.  

They took a field trip to the Alligator Farm in St. Augustine.  It was K's first time here.  She had fun checking out all the different gators and crocs.  She especially liked watching them eat the rats!

They also performed in a play about Moses as an entire grade.  All 3 classes did a fabulous job!

Getting ready to take a bow

The all loved singing Pharaoh, Pharaoh at the end!  Sadly, I can't get the video to load.  Check back incase I can figure it out.

Birthday parties every weekend - or at least it seems that way.  We've had to say no to some...but thankful for all her many friends!

Butterfly Centers at school.  They had caterpillars turn into butterflies in their classroom and they learned all about them.

So many activities going on in the next 3+ weeks of school.  Field Day, Mother's Day Brunch, 2nd Grade End of Year pool party...the list goes on!

Date Night!

Providence hosted A Night To Remember Daddy/Daughter dance.  Andy and Kendall were so excited to go!  I took Kendall to get her nails done and then braided her hair and got her ready.  It was such sweet time together prepping her for her date!

I was able to pull off the hair do that she wanted!  Whew!

 What a beautiful couple!

Daddy and her Dancing Queen

Some of her girl friends at the dance.

She was so happy to have Daddy all to herself and do something special together.

She was on stage dancing with her friends.

My beautiful girl - She's growing up too fast!

Andy's friend and former boss was at the dance with his 7th grade daughter and took this video of Andy and Kendall dancing together.

Since Dad and Sis were on a date, Ra and I decided to do the same.  We went to Al's for dinner.

Then we went to the movies to see God's Not Dead 2.  What a great movie for us to see together.  We had some pretty in depth, adult conversations about the movie.  I love being able to do that with him.

Both kids had a great time on their dates.  They both told us multiple times how much fun they had.  It's a great investment in our kids' future relationships and marriages.

A Day Filled with Parties!

Last week was filled with PARTIES!  Sissy had her class party at school.  They had fun centers where they built gingerbread man traps, found area and diameter with candies, and created cute ornaments.  

The class had a Christmas sock exchange.  This was such a cute idea!

She ended up with the cutest socks!  

They also decorated cupcakes and sang Happy Birthday to Jesus.  The cupcakes were chocolate to represent sin.  White icing to represent our sins being forgiven.  Green sprinkles to represent eternal life and red sprinkles to represent Jesus blood.  Such a great idea and a lot of thought put into each part of the cupcake.

 One of Sissy's friends had a birthday party at Painting with a Twist.

She had a great time and really enjoyed creating her work of art!

 These are such sweet girls and I'm so thankful she has wonderful friends!

PS - Not to be outdone with fun parties and outings, Ra had a surprise Christmas party at school the Friday before semester exams started and his best buddy took him to see the Premier of Star Wars on Thursday night before it opened.  He had a blast and came home and spoiled the movie for me...Oh well.  I'll still probably go see it!  ;)

Thanksgiving Day Feast

2nd Grade had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day feast in their classrooms.  We had such a fun time seeing Sis and her friends recite poems, sing songs and show thanks.

Here is her class in part of their performance.


Happy girl got to have her mom AND dad at her feast!


Her Thanksgiving turkey story.


The pumpkin artwork she created in art class.


Flat Stanley!!!  He was hanging on the wall and I got the chance to see everything he got to do while visiting Aunt Lori, Uncle Jason, Maddie and Hayden!  They made the cutest photo album to share all of his adventures in Pennsylvania.  It was one of the nicest presentations!


After the delicious feast, Sis and I stopped by Cinotti's to order our pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving and found these cuties.  We just had to take them home!


I am so thankful that we got to spend the day in school with Sis and her friends.

Harvest Centers + Book In A Bag Character Dress Up

The 2nd Grade has been working on reading and writing.  They did a book report on a book of their choice and talked about it to their classmates.  At the end of the week, they dressed up as a character in their book and then shared with the other two classes about their books hoping to interest others to read their book.  They decorated and wrote about their book on a bag and then inside the bag contained 3 items related to the story to help them explain their book.  It was a cute idea and Sissy really enjoyed it!

Here she is with her buddy Arabella.  She was dressed up as Kenzie, the gymnast in her book.

After they shared their stories, they had Harvest Centers.  Each table worked on a different concept.  This was them working on math using candy corns!

This is Jude...She says she doesn't "like" him, but we all wonder if there is any truth to that statement!

One of their tables was to create a scarecrow out of cookies, icing and decorations!

I am so pleased with her progress this year.  She and I both just love her teacher this year.  She is absorbing everything Mrs. C. says in class and teaches.