Luke's D.A.R.E. Graduation

LUKE'S D.A.R.E. Graduation
Luke did it!  He graduated from DARE!  Good job bud!!  I asked him if it was hard to do and if he felt like it was a huge accomplishment and he said, "No, not at all."  He's so funny.  I do love the program though and I'm happy that they make such a big deal about it all.  He made a funny straight face in the slide show, that was fun.  And we got some Fiiz afterward to celebrate his easy accomplishment :).  4-24-18

These three pictures I got aren't even really worth having, but they were all I got!  

This was the lame shot of him getting his dog tags from Officer Sanford.  Not really a kodak moment I guess.

Into the Woods with Luke the Wolf

INTO THE WOODS WITH LUKE THE WOLF
Luke's sixth grade play was a HUGE success!  They have been working on that play for MONTHS!!  Almost the whole school year!  It was so much fun for Luke.  I could tell he was really excited for it and really got into it- I was happy about that.  Luke got to be the wolf which was a lot of fun for him.  So we weren't sure how the evening was going to go so we went to the morning showing of his play as well as the evening one.  It was a lot of fun to finally witness all the fruits of their labor.  Luke was so adorable up there, acting, and putting on a show.  He was so cute singing his solo while dancing with Little Red and doing his "grandma" voice and howling and eating Red!  He did an excellent job!  So much fun!  I think he loved wearing the nightgown the most.  I loved that I could hear his singing voice over the rest when they would sing all together.  He has a really great voice!  Kelly was going to have to miss the evening show for her Lacrosse game, so she had me check her out of school (eye roll) so that she could come see Luke's play.  She had done the same one so it was super sentimental to her.  I have to admit it made me smile inside that she cared so much.  She came a little after it started (since they started early) and then had to leave right after Luke's big scene.  She was missing her AP class for it!  But what a cool big sister.  Grandma Hatch came to the morning show as well.  It was fun to have her support too.  It was the wrong night for a lot of people, but many texted "good luck"s and "wish I could be there"s, so that was nice!  I really can't say enough about how well Luke did!  So much fun!  Now what will he do with all his time :).  4-19-18

I really hate the lighting at that school.  Makes for crappy pictures.  But whatever- you get the idea.

He was always in the back on these shots.  Bummed me out- but here's a pic of everyone else :).

um can you say adorable!  I mean, this was the evil dance with Red that Lukey nailed!

Kite Flying For FHE

FHE
Kelly gave us a lesson on how satan tries to distract you and did an object lesson with quarters and people drawing lines down there face making marks they didn't know they were making.  It was a pretty cool analogy.  For the activity we took advantage of the crazy wind and went over to the park to fly the kites Nate bought at Costco forever ago.  It was fun, but also freezing cold, so it was short lived.  It was fun to see the kids re-learning how to fly kites- I can't believe it's been so long since we did it last.  Charity was at an AP Psych review, which was a bummer to have her missing out.  She was totally depressed about it and took some convincing to go.  Kelly sat on the grass by Jack who was curled up in a ball on in Luke's coat trying to get warm.  Bradley got the hot air balloon kite up with only a little guidance from Nate and I, and flew it almost the whole time without too much trouble- it's a pretty good kite!  Luke was in control of the other one- it was spinny which was too cool, but kind of hard to keep steady and up in the air.  Maybe it was too windy.  But he had a lot of fun running around and trying to keep that one up.  Took a little bit of instruction for him too.  My poor boys didn't know how to fly kites!  Noah, Erika and Molly ran around chasing, and watching the kites.  Trying to get turns holding the string.  They loved it!  It really was a lot of fun, I'm glad Emily told me that their family had done it the day before- it was a fun idea!  I felt bad that we didn't invite Grandpa Hatch!  But lots of fun.  I got pictures.  For the treat we piled in the car and got Fiiz.  I was so good!  No Nutella hot chocolate for me!  4-16-18

This kite was all over the place- took Luke a lot of work to keep it up there.  Might be that the wind was too strong, not sure.

Trying to recreate a pic from the old days :). 

I just love Erika and Noah in this one.