Carmen Loses a Tooth!

Icecream!

Dancing

Nick graduates from 5th grade!

Nicholas has officially graduated from Elementary school!!
This years achievements:
Citizenship Student of the Year, boys
Science Student of the Year
Accelerated Reading Classroom Leader (4TH year in a row!)
All A Honor Roll (5th year in a row!!)
Science Olympiad
Published Participant of The Write Stuff: Becoming Authors

Membor of:
Choir
Safety Patrol
Cafeteria Assistant

Great Job Nick!! We are so proud of you. :0)

Getting his medals:
With the principal
With the vice principal:

Nick with his teacher, who jokes that she didn't have to lift a finger to teach him all year long:

So, alright now.

Yes, we are still here!

Our computer got a virus and has crashed. We were able to back up all our files and pictures, but we haven't been able to get the pictures up on our new computer yet. So, no blogging. I have LOTS of pictures to post, but it will have to be another time.

Nick is anxious to start middle school, Carmen is ready to go back and reunite with all of her friends in first grade and Luke is totally excited about going to kindergarten. Every morning he askes me how many more sleeps until he goes to school. For the next three years it will be just me and Mary home during the day! What will I do with all of that free time?

Hopefully I will have more pictures to post. I hope everyone is having a great summer!

Wax Museum

The wax museum is an event that Nick's school puts on. Each 5th grader is given (or pick) an historical character to portray. They have to study their character and be that character for the entire day. They stand still and when their button is pressed they have to recite whatever facts they have memorized. Each grade tours the museum and parents are allowed to come tour the museum also.

Here is what the wax characters look like:
Nick was Thomas Edison:

Wax