Kelcie's 9th Birthday!

Kelcie turned 9!!!  Her birthday always falls on the last week of school, if not the last day, so needless to say, it's BUSY!!!

Opening her presents that morning

SO glad they finally made legos for girls!!!

Her one request - stuff for her American Girl doll.  So, I made her  some outfits and found some cute shoes.

Then, on Saturday, she had a fun party with her friends:
Helen, Leah, Audrey, Sophie, Raegen
             Kaylee , Alli, Kennedy, Payton,
Kamree, Riley, Jaclyn, Ashlynn, Elli
Kelcie

Out of order, but here's her presents from her friends

The girls came in and did a photo booth - can we tell you how great it is to have older kids who can help???

Then, they came over and decorated frames.

Then, they went upstairs and made clothes out of newspaper for a fashion show - we had several older sisters come to help with this!  Here is Kelcie's fashion!

Opening presents

Blowing out candles!

Then, they got their pictures to put in the frames.  This is one of my favorites - Ashlynn

Some did some group shots - here's Kelcie and Alli

There were some really cute photos from the photo booth, but I didn't want to put them all on - they're cute girls!  We LOVE having Kelcie in our family - she's so fun!  HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

Last Day of School!!!

Laura's cute friends: Kailey, Payton, Laura, Hannah, Tayler, Kinley

Have to have silliness!

Best Friends, Kailey

With teacher, Mrs Nolan

Kelcie with her teacher, Mrs. Tate

Kelcie's cute friends: Helen (cousin), Riley, Kelcie, Peiton, Ashlynn, Alli, Raegen, Kaylnn

They had a great year!  We loved having teachers that Jamie had before, and Kelcie even got a cousin in her class for half the year!

Kindergarten Graduation!!!

Talin graduated from KINDERGARTEN!!!!  My last one.....

Talin waiting to do their little program - notice he's on the BACK ROW - my kids are NEVER on the back row!!!!!

Showing his diploma with Grandma and Grandpa Starr

Big Boy!!!  Ready for 1ST GRADE!!!!!!

With Mom and Dad (another picture?)

With his teacher, Mrs. McGregor (love her) and the Classroom Aide, Mrs. Dawson (love her, too!)

Best Friends - Maddie, and Embry

He's had a great time in Kindergarten and has done really well!  He loves the power of being able to read - he reads EVERYTHING!!!  He's so ready for 1st grade.  And.........no more half day for Mom!!!!  (Don't get me wrong, I love half day, but I'm ready for it not to be in my schedule)  Congratulations, Talin!!!

Disneyland Field Trip

So, for 8th Grade Graduation, our school offers a Disneyland Field Trip!  I went with Erin, Lafe went with Ethan, and so I was up again to go with Jamie!  I wanted to go with Jamie, but I was not looking forward to 2 nights sleeping on a bus :)

Our group at the entrance to the California Adventure
Jamie, Savannah, Brianna, Macy, Mishayla, Brianna E.

Jamie's big worry - Tower of Terror!  I still refused, but she went!

And SURVIVED!!!

Waiting at Soarin' over California - Jordan joined our group

At the entrance to Disneyland

Waiting in line for Indiana Jones, which broke so we never got to ride it.  Brigham joined the group, too.

Grizzly River Adventure - there were 8 seats and 8 kids, so we sent them without us.

Dinner - a Mickey Pretzel!

LOVED spending the day with Jamie and some of her friends.  It was exhausting and some drama, but we made it!

8th Grade Graduation

Jamie has graduated from 8th Grade!!!  On to HIGH SCHOOL!!!!!

Receiving her diploma from Mr. Lee

With Grandma and Grandpa Starr and the flowers they gave her.

With Mom and Dad - so proud of her!

The family that came to support
Ethan (thrilled), Aunt Cathy, Jamie, Erin, Kaylee
Helen, Laura, Talin (also thrilled), Kelcie

FRIENDS!!!!!
Jordan, Brianna, Savannah, Austin, Jamie, Bryden, Kelli, Macy, Spencer, Brigham, Brianna E., Harrison

Best Friends - Savannah and Brianna

Its been so fun watching Jamie blossom this year!  She's had so much fun.  I love that I've been helping out with the choir at school so I got to know her classmates and friends - and see her all the time!  She's sweet, considerate, helpful, outgoing, talented - I'll have to post that later - and fun!  We love watching her grow up!  On to Disneyland!!!!!!!!!

8th Grade Talent Show

8th Grade has a Talent Show on their last day of school, and a group of them decided to do a skit from Studio C ( BYU Channel, so funny).

Then, she and a friend decided to sing a song from Wicked:

It was so fun, and I was so excited that she would go out of her comfort zone to have some fun!