Jupiter Juice

My darling Eden went to a birthday party and came home with this very exciting party gift called "Jupiter Juice".  Oh, how cleverly named!!  Yes, it is out of this world...heehee!  Unfortunately, my little creative one thought it might be even more galactic in her hair.  No my friends, there is no super awesome soap from Mars that makes this come out easy!  She was quite embarrassed, but she made such a cute little alien mess!

First day of School 2012

Back to school!  Believe it or not, after a super fun and busy summer, we were all really excited to get back to the routine of school.  Especially Emmalyn who was beginning Kindergarden.  Look at that CHEESY smile!!  Love it!  Dallin began 6th grade this year, Eden 4th, and Marion 2nd.  They love their teachers and have lots of new and old friends.  It's going to be a great year!

Goldilocks and the 3 Bears

This was from a while back, but I wanted to make sure that I had a copy of it from the schools site, so I'm posting it here now.  The school has a buddy system with the older and younger kids and this play is a product of something they did together.

Candygram Announcement

This was from a Valentine's Day project the school did.  The teachers were able to use this project to showcase the kids various mathematical skills.  It was really quite impressive all the graphing, predicting, arithmatic, and money skills they used.  I love this school!

Party in the USA Dance

Marion and the girls in her class wanted to do a dance to "Party in the USA" by Miley Cirus.  After they made up a few moves they wanted to use, I helped them choreograph the rest and Mike spliced the song so it wasn't too long.  It was really fun to watch!  Oh ya, and Eden became a part of it as well, since we did all the rehearsals at our house.

Emma's Talent Show Performance

Emma was the only Pre-k child to enter the talent show and she did such a great job!  We were so proud of her.  She called that dress her "popcorn dress", and was very excited to wear it for the show!

Circus Skits

At the beginning of January, Marion and Eden started an activity at school called Circus Troupe.  They stayed after school every Tuesday and learned how to juggle, spin plates on sticks, balance, human pyramids, and many other acrobatic feats.  They also did "circus skits" which were very cute and fun.  Here are the two skits that Eden and Marion did.

I couldn't get a good shot of Eden when she came running off the stage and into the audience but she came over to me and picked a flea off of my head.

Dallin's Talent Show Performance

The "Ode to Joy" Blues.  They had a problem with the extension cord at the beginning so he had to wait on stage while they sorted out the technical difficulty and got his amplifier working.  He was a real trooper though, and then gave a pretty darn good performance!

Eden's Talent Show Performance

Watch out Taylor Swift...cause these girls are "Mean"!

Triathlon

The PE program at ISR is really something.  During the second quarter of the school year, the kids all trained for a triathlon during PE every day.  They practised biking, running, and swimming.  Then, on December 2nd they all participated in the actual triathlon.  The distances were different for each age bracket.     It was really exciting and super fun watching them push themselves and hearing everyone cheer for one another.  The kids were exhausted but felt really great about what they had accomplished in the end.

 Eden's age group swam 50 m, biked 4 km, and ran 1/4 mile.

Eden's handle bars came loose while she was biking, so when she went over a speed bump, suddenly her handle bars had fallen forward so she had to really lean over to finish her bike race.  She was such a trooper, she just kept going!

Cross that finish line... Well done Eden!

Dallin's group swam 100 m, biked 8 km, and ran 1/2 mile.



Transition from the swim to the bike.

We caught Dallin half-way through his biking to cheer him on!

He did it!!

We're #1 Triathlon Champions!