Last Days at Roosevelt Elementary

Maddie and Will have had a very busy last few weeks of school.  They participated in the Academic Team competition and did pretty well for themselves.  I was impressed with their knowledge!

Another event they participated in was the All City Choir and Band concert.  All 5th graders from the school district practice together for a day and give a concert that evening.  It was well done, especially considering they are 5th graders and had only practiced together (as a full group with Middle School teachers) for one day.

Maddie at Camp Abe Lincoln for her class field trip

My last Muffins with Mom...

Maddie and Will participated in Wax Museum at school.  Maddie portrayed Laura Ingalls Wilder and Will portrayed Albert Einstein.

Recognition Night - a night I knew would be hard to get through.  Luckily, I was so busy helping with things, I wasn't able to really let the finalization sink in.  After 9 consecutive years at Roosevelt Elem, we said goodbye when the twins "graduated" into Middle School. 

Will's "All About Me" Poem and Poster

Maddie's "All About Me" Poem and Poster

Walking in to Pomp & Circumstance

The teachers read off each of the kid's accomplishments and activities throughout their time at Roosevelt.  Maddie & Will both had pretty long lists and their teacher wouldn't allow them to stop shaking her hand until she was finished.  Pretty comical.

Will & Maddie with their 5th Grade Teacher, Ms. Ross

We were blessed with great scheduling with Matt's dad!  He was in Chicago (from Oregon) for his 50th high school reunion so was able to drive to Moline for the night to celebrate the twins recognition with us.  What a special treat!

We ended our night with a full celebration - Texas Roadhouse for dinner followed by Whitey's Ice Cream for dessert.  A great finish to a wonderful school year.

End of the School Year Whirlwind!

We somehow managed a very very busy last few weeks of school.  With numerous concerts, recognitions, sports events and church things, we were busy for most of May!

We had a good laugh with Kaitee as she looked through her yearbook.  She noticed two names Katherine Hart and Katherine Hort in the index.  After looking through pictures to see what Kathering Hort looked like, she was surprised to see herself as both people!  As you can see, she is on this page twice (Hart and Hort).  We figured out the issue came when she had her first pictures redone - evidently they spelled her name incorrectly on the retakes!  We did notice that she wore the same outfit, down to the headband, for both pictures!

I put together our June calendar and it doesn't seem much better! 

Happy Mother's Day and Kaitee #15

For Mother's Day, I asked Matt to plan a trip somewhere up north for the day.  My only request was to eat at Five Guys for lunch.  We ended up spending the afternoon at Governor Dodge State Park near Dodgeville, WI.  There is a nice waterfall just a short hike off the road. 

There were lots of fallen trees to climb.  The kids enjoyed exploring.

A pretty good Mother's Day!

 

Happy 15th to Kaitee!  Because of our crazy schedules that day, we celebrated before school! We used a cinnamon roll as a makeshift cake (I put the wrong amount of candles on, duh!)

 

Will surprised her with this Fantastic Beasts book, while the girls combined their money to purchase the Fantastic Beasts movie!  She was so surprised!

That next weekend, we celebrated with family at Happy Joe's Pizza.

Spring Activities - 2017

Somehow we skipped through Spring and headed right into Summer!  Not sure how that happened. 

Track Season came and went.  We found this sign too tempting...

Kaitee & Alex worked hard on this Tangled puzzle we found at Goodwill.  It was hard!

Easter Egg Hunt at Grammy & Grandad's house - we tried something a bit different this year.  Headlamps in the darkened house.  Our goal is to hide all of the eggs at night and make the kids find them with their lights!  It may be a few more years before we perfect this new way of looking for the eggs, but it was a nice change up and the kids seemed to enjoy the challenge. 

My Christmas gift - the Cubs "W" Flag.  I'd like to fly it more than I have, but when it is up, Will makes sure that it is lit up for the neighborhood to see & enjoy!

Another year of Awana "in the books".  Hard to believe that next year will be our final year with the Awana program.  It saddens me that our local churches don't offer the Awana program past 6th grade.  Maddie and Will are on track to receive the Timothy Award (received when all 4 books are completed).

We headed to the Chicago area for a day trip.  It was a wonderful day - we letterboxed, shopped IKEA and the Lego Store then ended our night with a very late (9:45) dinner at Lou Malnati's for some Chicago style pizza!  We got home around 1:30 am!  It was nice to have that option now as the kids are getting older.