last day of school

Ollie and Mrs. Baird

We finally made it to the last day of school! 

I can't believe how much Ollie has grown up this year.

It is fun to see what a confident little boy he is.

He got the "honesty award" during the awards assembly on the last day which is kind of funny.

What does it mean?

How was he so honest?

I asked him how he was honest this year and he said, "What does honest mean?"

He loved his teacher and his friends!

And also loved playing football out on the little kindergarten playground and wearing his cleats all year.

Ollie on his first day of kindergarten.

Elliott and Mrs. Fredrickson- who is due in a few weeks.

Elliott had a fun year in 2nd grade this year.

He really got into reading chapter books and I would have to tell him to stop reading and go to bed after he read for a couple of hours some nights!

He also became independent on getting his homework packet done.

He figured out doing it at the beginning of the week took a little longer, but then he only had reading the rest of the week.

He had some really good friends in school and liked to play "tackle" at recess.

Here are some questions he answered in the class book he brought home:

The best thing about 2nd grade: my friends

When I grow up I want to be: a roboticist

My favorite subject is: Math, hexagons are cool.

And then he filled in class personalities and under "most creative" he put "Elliott."

Elliott on his first day of school
hey look- he's wearing the same shorts!

These are the little teacher gifts we decided on: 

flowers to plant with gloves and a trowel

The boys also had fun making candy leis for the class for their last day.

Yay for summer!

sunday afternoon

So glad the relaxed pace of summer is slowly creeping into our busy lives.
Just three more days this week and then the boys are out!
They made their 'summer lists' yesterday- and we have lots to discover and do.
I was very thankful for this Sunday after church where we could just lounge and relax with the boys.
Seems like we haven't had one of those in a while.

backyard soccer
Ollie as ref

Mt. Timp

Linc

classic Ollie- from mad to a laugh

Went back to (dark) blonde a few days ago!

wrestling 24/7

Me and Ollie enjoying the sunset

Adam making his specialty- crepes!
We put nutella, strawberries and bananas on ours.

Elliott's crazy pillow-seat.

Ahhh- here's to a great week and summer!

pinewood derby

carving the car in my parents' woodshop

Since Elliott is in scouts now, he got to be in the pinewood derby this year!

He was very excited and made sure that Adam couldn't rest until he helped him finish the car. 

Adam eventually bought a book entitled, "Speed Secrets of the Pinewood Derby," 

since, "we'll be doing this for the rest of our lives." 

Adam's exact words.

I wonder how many hours he put in...

His car turned out just like he wanted it. 

E's car in the front
And he won 5 heats and took 2nd in one.

Between races, Adam would put more graphite on the wheels.

A couple dads also borrowed the graphite between heats- so funny.

Grammy and Grandpa even came to watch- I forgot to get a pic!

Linc and his Grandpa, making the same face.

Elliott got to count down and push the start button twice.

Glad these two got to work on a project together.

Elliott took 2nd to Drew, who built his own car and which had fallen apart that morning. 

His parents helped him fix it but told us they were sure it would fall apart and not be able to race

--instead it won everyone! 

I guess you never know.

Elliott was proud of his car and 2nd place and can't wait to display it in his room.

ollie sings!

Ollie's class has been practicing for this program for the whole school year.

He was very excited to finally perform it, although, he feigned stomach pains instead of wanting to have a speaking part. His teacher switched his part to someone else a month ago when we finally found out why his belly hurt. :)

I was just excited that he was going to sing and do actions since at the Christmas program he held very s t i l l. 

I put a few extra pictures in just to show Ollie's personality at 6 years old- so sweet and silly and LOVES his friends.

Ollie, Dawson, Beau and Weston

Some of his best buddies from kindergarten.

These are the boys that played football every day at recess.

And probably the reason Ollie insisted on wearing soccer cleats to school every so often.

(Is that even legal?)

And wanted me to buy him a rubber mouth guard- say whaaat?

Ollie bugging Izzie. 

Who is this guy? Lounging like he's watching tv or something! Ha!

We were able to get front row seats right in front of Ollie- so fun.

Hooray for actions!

More lounging mid-program while Principal Beckstrand sings the first part of the song.

Mrs. Baird and her class- I cut out most of her morning class...

Great job Ollie!