Promotion

Amanda graduated from 8th grade this year and is moving on to High School. I can't believe I will have a High schooler! In fact this year I will have one child in High school, one in Middle school, one in Elementary school and one in Pre-school. Anyway...Amanda's promotion day was very fun! My parents got to be here for it which was very fun. They had gotten in to town the night before just in time to addend the Middle school awards ceremony and then got to come to Promotion the next day. Amanda's friend Rachel came over at 6:30 in the morning to do Amanda's hair for her and it turned out very cute! The ceremony was little long...over 400 names to call. 406 to be exact and Amanda was number 405! After they called her name my mom and I sprinted out of there to go over to Mads end of the year party at her preschool. So, unfortunately I didn't get any pictures from the day. Luckily one of her friends mom got this picture of Amanda with three of her good friends after the ceremony.
After the ceremony we hosted a post-promotion party for about 15 of Amanda's friends. It was really fun. There was a lot of swimming, a lot of Beatles Rock Band played and A LOT of cupcakes eaten! (Those girls ate 5 dozen cupcakes in a matter of three hours!)

Olympics

I have so many of the school year "things" I want to blog about. Unfortunately my camera broke/got lost. So I'm doing my best to find pictures that other people have taken. One of the biggest events for 6th graders at our school is the 6th grade Olympics. It is a two day event. I wasn't able to go because I had a field trip with Madison, but Shaun was able to get the day off to go cheer Sam on!
Sam was on the Netherlands. She competed in the mini-marathon, the long jump, the 200 meter and the 4X400 relay. She took 5th place in the mini-marathon, and her relay team took 3rd.
Sam and her friend Marissa.