The Wood Fam Fun Blog

It's time for our annual long summer trip to El Paso- yay!!! We like to drive down for a couple weeks (or more, if possible) in the summer so we have lots of time to see everyone and spend quality time!  This year, since I am teaching 3 classes at the gym and needed to arrange subs, we decided we could really just stay a little over 2 weeks. But we definitely wanted to be there for Gigi's birthday!! So we hopped in the minivan bright and early on a Friday morning, and for the first time ever, drove straight to Ruidoso to meet Capi and Gigi! The drive was a little longer, but it was nice to see new scenery / towns as we drove (until Ellie decided she was done with the drive!!).  We left our house at 7 am, went through a drive through for breakfast, stopped twice for gas, once for lunch (at the most busy Subway ever) and one extra stopped to change a diaper. Google maps said 9 hour 20 minutes... it took us about 11!! And the last couple hours, Ellie (who never fell asle...

The second to last day of Kindergarten, LJ had an Awards Assembly in the morning, which was immediately followed by his end-of-year party.  LJ got an award for being a Remarkable Reader! I have to- I agree!! I think he is reading about where I was in 3rd grade!! Way to go buddy!!  His teacher, Mrs. Stroh announced his award while the principal, Mrs. Varljen, handed it to him.  So proud of my little man on that big stage!!  Then on to the class party! We had four stations set up including chalk page coloring, a bingo station, a bucket decorating station, and a sock coloring station.  I also put together a 30 minute photo montage from all the pictures I had taken all year for the kids and parents to enjoy while the party was going on... What a year!!  Every kid got a bucket to decorate and take home! Bingo! Sock decorating ... LJ!! We ended the party by putting on new socks and having a dance party! They were so cute...