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The End of an Era

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The end has come. I've been counting down to this monumental milestone since the beginning of the school year. We are officially done with elementary school! After 12 years (11 of them at Red Pine), we don't have any more children in the lower grades! Am I sad? Yes, very much so. But am I really excited for what comes next? You bet! No more before school care, or giving G a ride to school everyday? Yahoo! We love our bus drivers!

It was also the end of Ava's junior year...that means that we have a senior in high school *gulp*. What?



So pretty!


Goodbye 5th grade, and hello, middle school!




There were tears (mine) when I dropped him off for the last time at morning SAC. Saying goodbye to the SAC staff was exceptionally hard since we've known them for years.


Both Scott and I attended the final walkthrough for the 5th graders on Thursday afternoon. G was all smiles and ready to start summer!

Ava had plans with friends after school to celebrate (and then another party later that night), so we let G pick where he wanted to go for dinner. Texas Roadhouse for the win!

Other than all of these endings, it was a really, really busy week. I had some bigger presentations to give at work, plus I overdid a few of my classes at LifeTime, so I was pretty sore. Scott's been dealing with allergy symptoms for the last few weeks, so his voice sounds like a croaking frog. Seems like we need a night at home. (But only after I hit up a grad party, and then pick up G from a birthday party!) Whew!

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