Last Day of School!!!

For the end of the year gifts for Kennedi and Stetson's teachers I made these t-shirts for them. I had all of the kids draw a sef portrait and then I scanned them onto the computer, printed them on iron on tranfer paper, and had them sign under their picture. They turned out so cute!

School is finally out! Yahoo! This is Kennedi with her third grade teacher Heidi Ogden. We are good friends with her and her family. Kennedi loved having Heidi for her teacher. She did a great job. Heidi really gave Kennedi that extra push she needed to excel, especially in reading. Kennedi got strait A's all year, and got the citizenship award, as well as most likely to "swim in the Olympics" awarded by her teacher (she is also the swim team coach). Kennedi had a great year, worked really hard, and is such a great student and friend to everyone.

Kennedi's class. Kennedi is on the front row with her little "posse". Mariah, Kennedi, Tati, and Jordan . Tatianna is Kennedi's BFF, and have been in the same class since kindergarten!

Stetson had Mrs. Hughs for kindergarten, who is also in our ward. She did an amazing job! My hat goes off to her for all of her hard work. She had 30 kindergartners all day with no aide. I don't know how she did it. I went in to help one day a week, and it gave me a better appreciation for teachers, especially good ones that love their job, and try to really shape and mold and make a difference in their students lives! Kindergarten was pretty easy for Stetson, he is the oldest in his class (Aug. b-day and we kept him back a year). He needs a real challenge in first grade. Anyway, he had a great year, made lots of friends ,and was the one everyone wanted to play with, and sit by at lunch. He is such a loving and caring little boy.

Last week Stetson came home from school and told me he earned a "paw". The paws are a reward system the school uses. Teachers can give paws out to children when they see them doing good things, picking up trash, sticking up for their friends, etc. Stetson said some bully(a third grader) was being mean to him and 2 of his friends at recess, pushing them and saying mean things. So Stetson said to the bully, "don't push me again or i am going to take you down." Of course the bully pushed him so Stetson shot the double leg on him and took him down. The kid got a bloody nose when he hit he ground. He went crying to the teacher. She called Stetson over... and gave him a paw for sticking up for his friends. What an awesome teacher! I'm sure she watched the whole incident. Justin and I were laughing so hard as Stetson was telling us about it. I can just picture it, and of course Justin is thinking "thats my boy". Moral of the story, wrestling pays off in self defense, and I would totally want to be Stetson's friend.