End of School Year Craze

So the end of the school year is always super packed.  I lose my mind with running the kids back and forth.  Sadly the summer has been much the same.  All in a good way of course, but I wonder if I could even remember what my days consist of if I didn't record it here. 

This year Issac was in an after school basketball camp.  He loved it and got really good.  They had a tournament for families to watch the last week of school.  He killed it!

 Of course there are the end-of-year parties.  They have relays, play games, and eat popsicles.

 Issac with his teacher.

Wyatt participated in circus club where they learn to juggle, walk on stilts, hula hoop, unicycle, and jump rope while doing crazy things as well as tumbling.  They then do an assembly for the school as well as one for the parents.  Love our little school!

Race For Education

Our elementary school does one fundraiser every 18 months.  It's called Race for Education.  They run for money basically.  Thank you to all of our family and friends who donated.  The boys did amazing.  They raced to see how much mileage they could do in 30 minutes, 3 laps equaled one mile.  I ran with the kids off and on throughout the day while helping and taking pictures.  I put in just over 5 miles.  The boys accumulated total was a little over 8 miles.

Wyatt was a reluctant runner.  He thought it was too hard to run the whole time, but found out it was all in his head when I showed him my jogging pace, that I set for him, was the same speed as his run/walk pace. 

Issac was my most enthusiastic runner and because of that I don't have pictures of him actually running.  Boo.  He did almost 3 miles in 30 minutes. 

Kody was very excited.  His friends and him had been trash talking and you can see him on the start line.  But he got plowed by the kids behind him and then refused to run for the first 15 minutes.  Eventually he got in a better mood, with the help of Ethan, and they ran together. 

They did 1.5 miles. 

Envirothon Team

So Envirothon is like quiz bowl, but all about natural science stuff.  This year they covered macro-invertebrates, bird identification, tree identification, mammals, and???  quite frankly I can't remember.  Needless to say, Wyatt knows much more about this stuff than me.

This year our school created a team and competed in the county competition for the first time.  Not only did we tie for first place in our age group, but our team tied for second in every age group (grades 3-6).  I love this team of outdoorsmen and lone woman.  They are truly happy kids.

And true to my word, I told them if they won first place I would buy them pizza and accompanying junk for a party to celebrate.  Look at their happy faces.  Way to go!