Happy New Year!

It is Friday afternoon and Riley is out bowling with some friends,

Alec & Jeff are golfing,

Ian has a friend from school sleeping over,

and Hannah and I ordered pizza and have plans to watch a "chick flick" later...

This is the end to a very busy first week of school!

Besides seminary and cub scouts starting back up,

the girls have choir twice a week after school

and Alec decided to join the Cross Country Team.

Ian came home with this "Happy New Year!" hat

from his first week of school.  So cute, huh?

Tuesday was the first day back:

A senior and a sophomore!!

The girls left the house at 5:40 AM to get to seminary before

the first day at Lakeland.

Riley has a parking spot again at school (yay!!), so after they leave

in the morning I go back to bed!

A 6th-grader!

Alec is the "Second Shift" in the morning...

his bus picks him up at 7:49.

Alec was really excited & nervous for his first day of middle school at Oak Valley!

Our lone elementary student AND a 3rd-grader!

Ian is shift #3 and his bus picks him up at 8:50...

Getting on the bus...

I was laughing when the bus driver stuck her head out the door and 

wished all of us a GREAT DAY!

The kids weren't quite as excited as we were...
here's one of Ian's first writing assignments of the year: