Ending the School Year

The last month of school is always so busy with school events and summer sports heating up. We started the month of May with Wyatt's field trip to the Indian Mounds.

While the boys had visited with Nana and Auntie Jake, I've never bee, so I really enjoyed it.

Wyatt and all his friends all had a good time too.

Wyatt remembered this "map" from his first visit and couldn't wait to see it again. I had to drag him away from it.

Then we got to celebrate Ethan earning a character trait award for Punctuality. This one makes me laugh as I think it should be me as mom who earns this award, as I would be the only reason his on time to anything. But all he cared about was hanging out with the Eagle.

Then Ethan had the track and field Special Olympics. While he much prefers the bowling in the winter, he seemed to enjoy himself.

Jack was on the Junior Swarm box lacrosse team this past winter and so with the end of the professional season, they invited all the kids to come have a practice at the stadium.

It was fun to watch.

The stadium is on the other side of town and following the practice they had a game so we had to find something to do to kill an hour or two, since it wasn't enough time to go home and back. So we found a play park.

Then it was back to the game where Jack got to run through the tunnel with the Swarm team at the start of the game. It was so cool to see and experience.

You can see the back of Jack (with the white hat) just above the lady with the glasses.

In between all that we celebrated Wyatt's birthday.

Had Jack's final band concert.

And had Ethan's field trip. It was so sweet to see him with his best friend from school.

Mining for rocks.

And hiking around.

We had two final lacrosse tournaments in May.

Here is Wyatt at faceoff.

They had a great tournament.

The final tournament of the rec season.

Then I finally found someone to cut Ethan's hair.

He hated it but it looks so much better when it's short.

Then Jack had an end-of-year band party.

And then the start of summer lacrosse.

It's exhausting.

Earlier in the school year Ethan won the PTA Reflections award for artwork and I had been trying to see his masterpiece for months - but no one had it. Then at the end of the year it finally came home with him. And he was so proud. As soon as he got off the bus he took it out of his backpack and showed it to Daddy.

One end of year class party for Wyatt.

The picture I had to force him to take with me.

And his best friends, Colin and Zachary (if those name sound familiar, it's because Jack has two best friends named Colin and Zac too - what are the odds???).

Then an award ceremony for Jack where he earned all A's honor roll and excellence in Advanced Social Studies. I'm so proud of Jack and all the hard work he put in his first year of middle school.