school's out

school's been out for awhile now, but i don't blog in real time anymore. this whole moving across the country thing has me missing posts left and right. but funny thing i am learning, even if i don't blog about it, life still happens!! and a lot of life is happening around here.

for example, this year one said goodbye to middle school...

(waving to his mommy on the way to school. what a good sport!)

and another said goodbye to elementary school...

you know what's super weird? at their recognition ceremonies, i barely even teared up. maybe i am saving all of my tears for our move. or maybe i am becoming more comfortable with the idea of my kids growing up. maybe.

each of their recognition ceremonies were sweet. the fifth graders each shared a piece of advice that they had learned...

       

em tried to avoid my pictures...

but changed her tune when it was time to get pictures with her friends...

tate, on the other hand, looked right at me during his ceremony...

but there was only one person who he wanted his picture taken with afterwards...

but we all are saying goodbye since we are moving. the goodbye to our beloved attendance secretary brought the most tears from us all...

she is an amazing person and STELLAR at what she does. we have loved our elementary school. we said this cheer for the last time... 

and had our last "last day of school" ceremony with beach boys songs playing while we said our goodbyes...

after all that goodbye-ing, we needed to do some partying. and so it was time for our annual last day of school party. this year we had rootbeer floats. I was so happy I found these for 3/$1 at Dollar Tree...

I had to laugh at what happened after my little invitation photo shoot...

That is my life right there.

So to add to our goodbye's, we had good food...

And good times...

and we are now racing toward the finish line of our time in our beloved nebraska. this should be an interesting summer.