Silly Girls

Valerie spent a day with us and the girls kept entertained playing Weathergirl and Teacher

Summer Begins!

Last Day of School

Arboretum Field Trip

We Rock!

For Margaret's 9th birthday party, we had 12 girls over for a Camp Rock themed party. They got to sing and dance (on our custom built stage in the garage) and have pizza, ice cream sundaes and a juice bar. They had fun and most of the girls didn't want to leave when 9pm came around.

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...and the finishing touches

Living History

Every year, the 3rd graders put on the "Living History Museum" where the students dress up as a historical figure they chose to study and give an oral presentation for all the student and parent visitors. Margaret has planned for over a year to be Laura Ingalls Wilder (which is great, since she already has the outfit!).

Laura goes to school with her friend Helen Keller

Laura giving her presentation in the gym

Laura with her other friends Clara Barton and Sandra Day O'Connor

So long Princess...Hello Polka Dots!

Award Winning M&M's

Margaret was given the Principal's award today. It is awarded to two students per grade level each month for good citizenship and work ethic. She was totally surprised by the award because the teacher emailed us instead of sending home a note in her folder. Even more surprising was that the other award winner was her best friend Michaela!

So long pink...Hello PINK

For Christmas, Margaret got a bedroom makeover of her choosing. First step is to paint over the pale pink with a bright pink.

Michaela came over to help Isn't Kyle a romantic?

Margaret loves her M's And check out what the girls did when I wasn't looking.

Work in progress - more pictures to come...

Candy Cane Classic

The meet was a problem from the start. First of all we found out our time got scheduled for early on Sunday morning on Kyle's birthday. Nathan woke up early with a sore throat so Kyle ended up taking him to Acute Kids to get tested for strep throat insead of coming to the meet (it was negative). Margaret got off to a good start on floor, but ended up missing her shoot-though on the bars and her beam dismount. But she and the rest of the girls still had a good time and the team ended up winning the second place trophy.

Who needs new toys when you have an old videocamera?

I really want to capture this football game on TV. Let me get on my glasses so I can check the settings. Yeah...I think this is the right camera angle...for the ceiling fanNow I will give Margaret a chance to be director and I will be the star!

Science Fair

Margaret did her science project this year on "How to keep a Jack-o'-lantern from rotting". The answer? Vaseline beat out acrylic spray and hand sanitizer. But the worst was the control: