Graduation day, again

This time graduation was for the Upstart program. He took an exit exam when we got there. Then they gave them a little cap to wear, a diploma and they got to march in to the front of the room and be applauded. He got a little snack and a pencil bag to celebrate.

                                         

                                         

Red Robin

Josh has been doing the Upstart program this year to get ready for kindergarten. It is a time commitment of 20 minutes a day, 5 days a week. Needless to say, by late spring he was dragging. So I promised him if he got all his medals (the reward system they use each month) then we would go to Red Robin together and he could get the meatballs. Well, today was that day! He got chocolate milk, meatballs and french fries. We chatted about whatever he wanted. He tried to win a ball from the game machines, but it was a bust. He did get a Red Robin balloon to take home though!

                                

The rest of the birthday session pics

These are the rest of the pictures from the birthday session we did on Sunday. I wanted to include them in the family book though because they were just too fun not to include. They are heavy on the the girl because she actually likes to get her pictures taken whereas the boy child was forced to come.

Birthday girl

Birthday interview:

What's your favorite color?  blue
What's your favorite food?  crepes
What's your least favorite food?  milk
What is your favorite breakfast food? crepes
What is your favorite animal?  giraffe
What's your favorite thing to do?  be with friends
What's your favorite thing to play?  soccer
What's your favorite toy?  phone
What's your favorite book?  Throne of Glass
What's your favorite movie?  Everything Everything
What's your favorite subject in school?  Drawing and History
What do you want to be when you grow up?  Marine Biologist
Where is your favorite place to go?  the beach
Where do you want to go on vacation?  the beach
What makes you happy?  going to the beach
What was the funnest thing about being 13?  California
What will be the best thing about being 14?  Stake dances
What do you really like about yourself right now? I'm good at soccer 

Last day of swimming lessons

I signed up for the first session of swimming lessons this year. Luckily the weather cooperated and it has been hot every day! And now we are all done with lessons for the summer!

Josh was doing great with his front crawl today. On the last day they get to go down the slide!

Double digits

Birthday interview:

What's your favorite color?  sea green
What's your favorite food?  Meat
What's your least favorite food?  egg toast
What is your favorite breakfast food? French toast
What is your favorite animal?  pegasus
What's your favorite thing to do?  play minecraft
What's your favorite thing to play?  Legend of Zelda
What's your favorite toy?  fidget spinner
What's your favorite book?  Percy Jackson
What's your favorite movie?  Jurassic Park
What's your favorite subject in school?  Reading
What do you want to be when you grow up?  video game engineer
Where is your favorite place to go?  Outback Steakhouse
Where do you want to go on vacation?  Hawaii
What makes you happy?  listening to a certain song in Legend of Zelda Windwaker
What was the funnest thing about being 9? buying my phone
What will be the best thing about being 10? Being double digit
What do you really like about yourself right now? I read a lot

End of soccer season

Today was the last day of soccer for McKinley, Sawyer and Joshua. I was at McKinley's game so I only got a picture of her last day and not the boys. Now we get our Saturdays back for a little while.

After soccer and then swim lessons for Josh, we went to Kent's new work party. They had food trucks and a little carnival for the kids. Josh approved.