May 26, 2011

A week of milestones for Grace.  She turned 6 last Friday, I'm still having a hard time coming to grips with the fact that she's that old.  She did all the usual treats to school stuff, and then Friday we took her and her best friend Madalyn to Chuck E Cheese's.  Not a fan of that place, but the girls had fun. 

Yesterday Grace finished kindergarten.  She had a tremendous school experience this past year, she had a great teacher and the school was really good to her.  She feels really good about school and is doing academic work well beyond her grade level.  We are moving (again) this summer and she will be going back to Leeds Elementary (where she went to preschool).  While we hate to have Grace leave Nodland, she did enjoy her experience at Leeds and they already know about her.

Now it's on to summer vacation.  Today is the first day and she is definitely sleeping in!

May 7, 2011

Hard to believe that Michelle and Grace only have 2 1/2 weeks of school left.  Their last day is the25th.  Meanwhile Grace's 6th birthday is on May 20.  A lot of good stuff happening in the next couple weeks.

We've started to finalize some things with our plan for RAGBRAI this year.  The plan is for the Race 4 Grace day to be Monday, July 25; which is the stretch that goes from Atlantic to Carroll.  I'm sure we'll have some team members who'll go on Sunday and some who might go after Monday, but we're going to try to make Monday the official "team" day.  More details to come!