Arabella and Elijah officially finished another year of school. They both did really well on their end of year tests. Arabella scored at the 11th grade level for her reading and literature. She scored in 4th grade for math… so right on schedule. Elijah breezed through his reading test. They both put in a lot of work this year and it shows. I can’t believe how quickly this year went by. There are definitely some things we will tweak for next year but I feel like we have finally found our groove. I go back and fourth with sending the kids to a traditional public school because I want them to have a normal childhood… but the school in our area isn’t very academically challenging so I’m still in search of the perfect Charter. Summit is good but it’s a little far away for traveling each week. I’m hoping we will get into a closer one next year. They did have fun at field day this year!

We sold our Fusion… it was really quick and painless. I really loved that car but we needed more space. It took us less than an hour to sell it to a dealership. Our new vehicle is nice. We had it shipped from MN. We decided to go with a Pacifica. The kids were excited about having 3 moon roofs.

Now that summer is here we have been spending time just slowing down and doing as much outside as we can! We have been exploring the outdoors, having cookouts, summer camps, going to parks and parades. So far it’s been really good.

I’ll spend a good portion of the summer lesson planning and hand picking out curriculum with our Charter for next year. We will probably use Beast Academy again because it seemed to be a great tool last year. Last year we had some curriculum we really loved so we will probably continue with some of it.

Elijah was born!!!!!

How is that even possible?!! My guy loves curious George, Top Gun, Volcanoes, Top Gun and Dinosaurs. He’s nearly finished kinder and he’s wicked smart when it comes to math.

This year he wanted a Top Gun birthday. He was feeling a little under the weather but he still wanted to do presents and cake. Over the weekend we broke out some sweets and he picked going to In N Out for dinner. At night he was able to pick out a couple of movies for us to all watch as a family. He said he had a really good birthday.

I still can’t believe how much time has gone by. My internet is being a bit of a jerk and I’m having issues uploading photos. I’m glad he had a good birthday. He truly has a heart of gold. He’s such a sweet guy. I feel lucky to be his mom.

I can’t believe my sweet girl is 9 already! The party we planned didn’t happen because we had a snow storm a few days before. Everything was shut down and no deliveries were made. All of her birthday decorations were stuck in the mail. So we pulled out what we had in the garage and she still got her Stranger Things birthday. It may not have been what we had planned but she said she still enjoyed herself. I’m so lucky to be her mom. She is 100% her own person with her own personality. She loves baby pink, memorizing lyrics to her favorite NF songs and reading as many books as she can get her hands on. Shes wicked smart, hilarious when shes in her silly mood and one of the most beautiful people I know. For breakfast she wanted an eggo bar and we were able to pull that off with what we had previously bought. Luckily I had done some shopping at costco just before. I’m just happy that she was happy.