It's not summer until WE say it's summer!

No excuses about the lack of postings. If you have a child, much less children, you understand what happens at the end of the school year. It's like click-click-clicking to the top of a huge roller coaster hill then waiting ... waiting ... aaaaaaand GO! It's the last few weeks of school, hold on tight, people!
Just for fun, here's what we experienced/accomplished during the final week of school this year: three pool parties, one Girl Scout badge ceremony, one baseball pizza banquet, one baseball game (with a certain player maintaining his hitting streak for six at-bats!), one haircut (and highlights, yes), 4th grade field day, 1st grade field day, 1st grade water day. Oh - and Rus was in school all week for his Masters, and we were prepping for our 9-day trip to the Pacific Northwest. Yawn. It was quite boring and unevenful, really. NOT!
So wrapping up the school year: Anna Katherine responded to The New Rules and made straight A's for the first time in 4th grade. She worked her tush off in the process. She's very proud of her accomplishment, and she's enjoying her new bag of clothes from Justice. Not that it was a bribe or anything.
Ryan finished off his year in grand style. He had such a growing experience, learning how to buckle down and get his work done, THEN play and be silly. He's matured quite a bit this year. His "grades" the last 2 quarters were excellent and he's become quite the little reader. Can't imagine where he gets that from.
So now we're into summer 2008! Both children are loving Huck Finn camp at school; today's activity included dragging wood around and "building" a fort in the woods. They came home stinky, sweaty and covered in dirt, so it was a successful day.
More to come from our trip to Washington State and British Columbia!

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