September 2015 - Snapshots

Lunch time at school

after school winding down

 brothers!

 Superhero day at school

21mths of sweetness and mischief all wrapped up in this little bundle of fun!

soccer practice night

Sunday mornings

 Evan gets his second haircut

Cashing in on mummy's birthday freebies at Panera

 Student leader of the month - go Ria!

 date night

 Bums up :)

Sunday mornings

 Sunday afternoons - playing with Leah, Brody and Oreo and riding around the neighbourhood with Ms Eleanor

Just another Sunday morning!

 bedtime snuggles

lunch time with Ria

 Evan at PDO

family reading night at school

September was also pretty busy with soccer - will wrap up fall soccer in one post!
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Back To School!

Crazy how quickly 11wks of summer fun just flew by ... now its back to school for FIRST and FOURTH grade. Insane! The kids were really excited to get back, mostly to see all their friends. The first day was just for 2hrs so we had plenty of time to take some pics.

This is their last first day of school pic together in elementary

 We dropped off supplies, met teachers and found out who would be in their class. Once we got home, we had fun taking a few pics

Evan kept photobombing these pics!

Since Evan photobombed so many pics, the kids had a great idea ... this was definitely our fave pic of the day. I love that they wanted to include him in their back to school pictures.

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Schools Out ... Hello Summer Break!

We are extremely proud of how hard Javan and Ria have worked and all they have accomplished this school year. Javan finished out the year with all A's and Ria met all her requirements for kindergarten (and is reading 3rd grade words!). This year has FLOWN by.

 and for comparison sake ....

 she's definitely lost her baby face *sniff sniff*

 last car rider pick up for the school year!

 after school we met up with Steph, Luke and Nathan for our annual 'schools out lets celebrate' treat!

And just like that we it's a wrap for 3rd grade and kindergarten! Unbelievable!

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Ria's Kindergarten Commencement

I can't believe Ria's kindergarten year is complete! It has been a wonderful experience for her and we are so proud of how much our baby girl has learned this year. She works hard and she loves to learn. She is reading almost fluently and has beautiful penmanship. This morning was her Kindergarten Commencement services. It was so sweet! And definitely emotional for me. I had a hard time holding back tears. Our baby girl got to lead everyone with the Pledge of Allegiance and she did great. Here are some pics from the morning

 her biggest fans are her brothers!

 Evan was very much part of this kindergarten year ... I guess you could call him the class mascot! He was in her class every week with me :)

 Ready to march in

 Leading the Pledge

 walking the stage!

 Kindergarten choir

 Principal Akiona

 Her music teacher, Mrs. Donegan

 PE teacher, Coach Doan

 Kindergarten teacher, Mrs O' Boyle

 Assistant teacher, Mrs Collins

We were definitely blessed to have such great teachers to help our daughter through her first year at North Lee.

Stephanie, Eleanor and Kadyn joined us for the morning's festivities. Javan and Nathan were excused from their classes to come too! We loved cheering on our little girl.

The school made a video with the kids and showed it at the commencement. This was Ria's little snippet:

When I grow up I am going to be a teacher and a mum

We have no doubt that whatever she decides to do she is going to be excellent at it and I already know she's going to be great mother one day!
~V