End of the year stuff

I know we're halfway through summer already, but here are some highlights from the end of the school year.

Tyler had his first violin recital. We love his teacher, Don Charles. He's 85 and has been playing the violin for 80 years. He accompanied Tyler to make his songs sound really fancy.

Tyler played 2 songs: Mary Had a Little Lamb and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star. He played both songs perfectly!

Spencer finished up his hockey season. He lost his final game, but he got 1 of the goals.


So we ate at Good Ol' Burger to cheer him up.

Dallin was so happy to have Mrs. Young return to school for the last few weeks. Her son Cooper was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes, and she was out for a couple of months.

Dallin earned 2 reading awards. He can't get enough books and started sneakily reading Tyler's library books.

Tyler also earned a reading award,

as well as a creative writing award. He LOVES to write and wants to be a writer when he grows up.

Spencer got a science award for his invention. He was disappointed with how little science they did in school this year, since it's his favorite subject. They focus so much on reading, writing and math for testing that science gets ignored. He also got a reading award.

A word about awards: although I am always very happy for my kids when they earn them, I can't stand the awards assemblies! They only have them 3x/year now (they used to be monthly), and there are so many kids earning awards that they are super long and boring, especially for the little kids I have with me. They spend the whole time fighting for my lap then running away making too much noise. But we go and take pictures because it means so much to the one getting the award. It's what moms do.