Last Day

Last day of school. Last day of elementary school! Look how wet it was in the morning! The sixth graders dressed up, at least for the first part of the day.

He came home from school wearing the shirt that he had signed by friends:

Good times for him....

Fun With Flickr

How to:
a. Do a Flickr Search for the first thing that comes to mind for each of the questions below.
b. Select an image from the first page of results.
c. Make a mosaic with Big Huge Labs mosaic maker.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Favorite drink?
6. Best vacation?
7. Favorite dessert?
8. What you want to be when you grow up?
9. What do you love most in life?

Answers:
laurie. hamburgers. provo. green. water. france. chocolate. designer. family.

Photo credits found here.
Inspired from this blog, but modified it just a bit.

Jump Start on School Clothes Shopping

What? It's barely even June! Jordan's not even out of school yet and I've already got most of his school clothes for next year ordered. It's not as exciting as it may sound.


Soon the days of mismatched basketball shorts and t-shirts will be a thing of the past. Next school year he'll be at the junior high where there's a very strict dress code. It's almost like having uniforms, only different.

The deadline for school registration is this Friday and along with all the registration papers came an order form for uniform shirts, which at first confused me. I see kids from the junior high all the time and they never seem to be dressed very uniformly. Turns out they're only allowed to wear certain solid colors and nothing with a design or logo bigger than a dime! It could be tricky shopping, so I'm taking advantage of the option to pre-order some plain t-shirts in the approved colors. Easy!

52 Blessings Project, #22

FUN WITH FAMILY

Politics

I never had any intentions of bringing politics into this blog, but tonight is an interesting night in history. The last of the primary polls closed just a few hours ago and Barack Obama is the "presumed" Democratic nominee. Why presumed? He has enough delegates. And why is Hillary saying she "will make no decisions tonight?"

It's making for some good news.

Book Review

Doctor De Soto by William Steig

My review

rating: 5 of 5 stars

This has to be one of my all-time favorite children's books. It would be interesting to see just how many times we've borrowed it from the library. It's so good that it deserves an in-depth review!

I remember being quite young the first time I encountered this satirical work of art. I love the fact that Doctor De Soto was brave enough to work on really large animals and smart enough to draw the line at dangerous ones(after all, he is a mouse).

He has such a great and versatile set-up (including a winch) in order to accommodate his various patients. I also really like how his wife's spunky side is revealed when she says, "Let's risk it," in order to relieve a fox from tooth pain (dangerous indeed!).

Favorite quote: "On his way home, he [the fox] wondered if it would be shabby of him to eat the De Sotos when the job was done."

And I really like how the De Sotos outfox the fox!!

Can you believe there is another Doctor De Soto book and I've never even read it? (Doctor De Soto goes to Africa)

Celebrations

May seems to be the month for celebrations.


Last week we celebrated Chris' birthday in grand style at Michelle & Cam's Presidential Suite in Park City. Incidentally President Bush was in town that same evening, but not at the same presidential suite. M & C and their kids were living it up for a few days at their timeshare, and we joined them for a night of dinner, swimming and cheesecake.

Now Chris and I are the same age. We're only the same age for three months of the year, and then I get older again.


The next day we had a graduation celebration for Greg who graduated from high school. Wow! The year 2008 seems to have sort of just crept up on us.