Last Day of School

Well.  We did it.  We spent an entire school year here in Utah waiting for our house to be done.  We've actually been here a whole calendar year.  In the past week we found out our actual closing day on the house, which is about 4 weeks away now.  So we're excited about that...and now that school's out we'll be focusing on getting ready to move to California.  For reals this time.  The vast majority of our stuff is in storage in Illinois...as it has been for the past year.  So that part's easy.  And we'll just pack up what we have and have accumulated here in Utah.  Close on the house.  Move.  Then the unpacking begins.  But lets rewind a little...today was the last day of school!!  Here are Matthew and Anna just before heading to school on their last day.  Matthew finished 3rd grade and Anna finished 2nd grade.  Grant also finished preschool last week (read about it HERE).

The night before the last day there was a dance party at the school.  The big kids danced while the little kids played on the toys.  Matthew danced.  Grant played on the toys.  Anna went between playing and dancing.  It was a "glow" party so we all had glow necklaces.

Matthew loaded up on necklaces.

At one point the DJ told the kids to go get their parents and make them dance.  Matthew went and got me and we danced for about 20 seconds.  Then he left me to go talk with his friends.  :)  Dancing is usually funner and less embarrassing with other people.  But we had fun and stayed out too late.

Next morning ready for the last day.  It was only a 1 1/2 hour day so no lunch packing or anything.  I don't know why they bother having such a short day.  In Illinois they did a similar thing on the last day.

We had to take a picture of all our matchy shirts.

And fast forward to the end of the school day.  Which on this day was 10:45am.  Super short day.  Here's Anna running to meet me.

We found Matthew too!  They had some different goodies from school.

I made them pose for another picture after school.

Anna was sad about leaving her teacher.  She always gets pretty attached to her teachers.  She wasn't sure about this teacher at first, since he was male, but now she loves him and is sad to leave.

She made him this card.

From a "sincere student"

Matthew got the Tech Guru award at school.

He thought that was neat.

He taught a short section at school last week about how to write a program in Scratch, a visual computer language for kids.  I'm not sure what else he did to earn this distinction but it might have involved talking about computer games a lot.  

Anna, in her class, got the Awesome Friend award.  She was sad about saying goodbye to all her friends.

And we went for a post last day of school celebratory lunch at Freddy's, one of our favorite family eating out places.  We don't eat out that much.  We've eaten at Freddy's in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Illinois...and now Utah.  I don't think they have one by us in California.  But there are lots of other good eats there.  So the school year is over.  I love summer!  Hooray!  And hooray for our house being finished soon.  :)