End of Year Celebrations

We started last week with the first of the End Of Year Celebrations.  Jack, Jeffrey, and Jane played in their piano recital.  I just love their piano teacher!  She stuck with Jack when he was in his I HATE PIANO stage and helped him excel to the point of loving it.  The others are coming along nicely as well.  And check out that cute piano keys treat she made for each student there in the bottom right corner.

And, just so you know, Jeffrey did wear his church pants for the performance, then apparently he came prepared to play outside because he had basketball shorts on underneath.  What a crazy kid!

On Wednesday Katie Anne wowed us with what she's learned in her tumbling class.  As she walked up to take her turn she told her teacher (who had been stating the different steps to the other kids), "I got this!"

After her recital we ran over to the park to eat our picnic dinner of grilled chicken salads.  The kids got their wiggles out in our short half hour break before heading to the next function.    Of course Jeffrey had to take his turn on the playground even if he was in his church clothes.

Jack had just enough time to eat and climb a tree all the way up to the top.  See him peeking out there?

A half hour later we were sitting on the bleachers at ACYI waiting for Jeffrey's band concert to start.

He has really enjoyed playing the baritone.  I love his little look at us at the end of the video:

On Thursday John left for his end of year celebration.  Yeah, we'll call it that.  He wanted to do the Grand Canyon rim to rim to rim again, only better and faster.  Well, he did it in 19 hours 25 minutes. 

BEGINNING

MIDDLE

(with his brother in the background)

 

END

(eww.)

 

 On Friday Katie Anne graduated from Kindergarten.  Each kid in each of the three classes had a chance to shine a little.  Here she is singing the pink song:

She had a great year.  She is a great reader and I love hearing her little inflections.  She scored a kids meal to Maddox for her reading efforts this year.

As soon as her graduation was over we headed over to ACYI for Jack's robot competition.  He had a great robot but the Bluetooth connection kept blitzing out and there is no pause button so they timed out.  Kind of disappointing but he was happy to be able to tear his robot apart and build what he wants to again.  Here is my one bad picture of the whole day!

So that's it.  One more soccer game for Jane and we are done with the celebrations.  Besides the end of school, of course.