Yesterday was our very first day of school for the 2012 school year! My kids got all cuted up and I took pictures as proof. Aubrey and Addy are my last two in Elementary. Here they are above as we were on our way to the school. Cute! Cute I say!
This is Emily's first year of Jr. High. She is in the band and she is playing the flute.
She isn't excited about Jr. High or anything. Like she could so totally care less about her locker (they don't have lockers in elementary). She didn't go out shopping with her friends two weeks before school started to buy stuff to decorate her locker or anything. We haven't made special trips to the school just to decorate her locker either. We also didn't have a big fight in the middle of the hall because someone who has never opened a combination lock before in her life wouldn't listen to a person who has opened a combination lock 5 million times in her lifetime (you really do have to pass the second number once)(and you do have to turn right first). If you think her locker is looking a little plain, don't worry, she has added to it since this picture was taken.
Last week she went to a 7th grade "Intro to Jr. High" where she was able to go to all her classes for a shortened length of time so she could get familiar with the school and where her classes are. Here she is with some of her friends that day.
Here is my sweet little Aubrey. I can't believe she is in 4th grade this year. 4th Grade! When we moved into this house she was in Kindergarten. Has it really been that long??? This is how good of a mom I am. Yesterday was an early out day, for some unknown reason. And guess whos mom didn't know? Yep. Poor Aubrey. 20 minutes after school got out (in the middle of the day) my sweet tenderhearted Aubrey showed up all hot and sweaty on the front doorstep. HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!
And believe it or not, this little gal is in Kindergarten! She is so excited to go to school. Have you ever seen anything cuter in your whole life? Didn't think so.
Kindergarten here is 1/2 day. Yesterday wasn't a real day of school for her. We went to Back to School Morning and then went to meet her teacher in her classroom. So today is her first REAL day of school. She is in Spanish Immersion like Aubrey so 1/2 her day is completely in Spanish.
Zac could really care less about me taking a picture of him on the first day of school. He left to meet his friends to go to the bus before I could even say goodbye, let alone take a picture. I snapped this picture today (his 2nd day of school) as he was on his way out the door. The girls are always messing with the settings on my phone camera so this is the best I could get in the time I was allotted. He would not even consider waiting while I tried to remedy the situation.
9th grade is in the Jr. High here. He is starting his first year of Seminary. Seminary is a 4 year class that High School students in our church take where they learn and study the scriptures. Zac is lucky because we live in Utah and Seminary is offered as a class in school. Everywhere else it is done early morning at the church before school. Steve and I were both talking to Zac about our Seminary experiences. Steve, growing up in Missouri, had to leave his house at 5am to make the 30 minute drive to the church for 5:30 Seminary. I, growing up in Texas, had to leave the house at 5:30am to pick friends up and make it to the church by 6:00am. Here, Seminary is a real paying job that people do as a profession. Everywhere else it is a church calling, which means Seminary teachers are regular members of our church with regular jobs and they serve for a period of time teaching Seminary without getting paid. I have often said that I am glad I live in Utah, because that is not a possibility for me. My Grandma served as a Seminary Teacher when my dad was growing up. My Mom was serving as a Seminary Teacher when she moved here. And now my dear Sister Farrah just taught her first day of Seminary yesterday. I can't imagine having to prepare a lesson every day and then having to get up and get ready and teach a lesson that early! So here is a BIG
THANK YOU
to all Seminary Teachers everywhere, including my own, who sacrifice and give so much to teach the youth of this church!
So I took the kids shopping for school clothes last week. We had been so busy all summer, we just hadn't had a chance to do it before then. Last week I realized that we all need haircuts. Everyone needed new shoes and clothes. Zac needed a Birthday party. Emily needed to go to her Jr. High thing. And we needed to take a family camping trip! Monday was pretty much the only day we could go shopping. So I decided to throw all four kids in the car and head out. I was like, "Oh yeah, they're old enough. We can go and knock this out in a few hours." Yeah right. 8 hours and several meltdowns later, and we were finally done. The first store we went to was Plato's Closet to look for clothes for Zac and Em. Emily had been there before and as we were walking in she told Zac that the boys clothes were in the back of the store. After a few minutes Zac came back and said he couldn't find the boys clothes. I walked back with him and showed him where they were. On our way back we found these jeans hanging on the rack. I jokingly asked Zac (who will not wear jeans with any kind of design, fading, distressing, rips, buttons,nothing) if he wanted to try these on. He looked at me like I was crazy and said he wasn't going to try on girl jeans. I told him these were boy jeans. He said, "Well no wonder I couldn't find the boys section! They all look like girls clothes!"
Addy was a special treat on this shopping trip. I let her ride this scary looking creature at the mall in exchange for her screaming and crying to cease.
And FINALLY! Our last stop of the day, Target. Where Addy made about 1,000 videos on my phone. Most of which consist of her saying, "Wanna see my throat? AHHHHHHH!" And opening her mouth and well, showing you her throat. She also turned my camera on to sepia. She. I told you they are always messing with the settings.
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