Last, and First, day of school!!

May 2017 - it's the end of school, we didn't think we'd make it!  But.... here we are a having fun too!  We threw a huge hawaiian party for all the kids to celebrate the end of the year.  We dressed up in our floral shirts, did some hula dancing, and ate some snacks.  It was a great end to a weird and crazy year.  We sure do love our teachers - they helped us get through all this madness and made learning fun and school a good place to go.  I'm sure when we look back it will all be a distant memory.... and I know that our kids are fine.  They barely even notice anything is weird/wrong.  Not sure what the next year will bring (see below for this answer), but I'm guessing it'll be awesome!  As long as we have each other!

Last day of Kindy!  Hawaiian Luau day!

Miss Amber was our preschool teacher

Mrs Clay and Cohen - we have become friends with her family and just adore them!

Ari, Ms Amber, and Evan - hawaiian day!

We had a combined class party!

Doing our best Hula and Shaka for Hawaiian day!

Our first day of school!  It's a NEW year!  We are headed to a NEW school called KingsWay Christian Academy!  We have all our friends, all our favorite teachers, and we can even have Chapel!  What an exciting (and also nervewracking) time for us!  We have learned how to roll with the punches.  We have toured so many schools and prayed about what is best for our family.  We have decided that community, friends, and God are what we need in a school.  So we opted to 'give KingsWay a try.'  Luckily, we have Mrs Huntley for our first grade teacher - she is amazing!!  We can't wait to see how this all turns out, what we learn from all of this, and how we can be better humans after everything we've seen.  

Fun 'growth' shirts to capture our 'bigness' each year

Cohen best pose.... with big muscles!

Yep, he'll grow right into this shirt.... hopefully not too soon!

New school uniforms, logo and all!  So cool to be part of a NEW school

Cheeeeeesseeee by the tree!

Proud Dad and Cohen

Ribbon cutting, opening ceremony for our NEW school!!

Thanks to Mrs Huntley we know what year it is!

Praying in school - yes!

All our friends together!  We decorated pumpkins to take around our community to introduce ourselves

Singing with our class at the BIG event in Castle Rock - the tree lighting!  Our school is small enough that we can participate in cool events to help spread the word.  So fun to represent!

Celebrating the holidays!