A Few School highlights!

Starting at a new school has never slowed my girls down.  They make friends well and actually enjoy learning (I don't know if they would say that but they sure show it.)  This year they started at Legacy Traditional School.  It's a charter school here in Tucson.  I have loved it although I don't love the driving every day.  (I'm hoping to have someone to carpool with next year.)  I have loved that the girls have been able to develop new talents that I don't know if they ever would have developed some place else.  They have made such good friends and they have ALL had EXCELLENT teachers. 

Here are a few pictures of Alexa playing basketball.  It was a fun season and she had a great coach.  The girls on the team really grew close and played well together.  Alexa is behind the girl in the white. 

 Here she is taking the ball down.  She was picked to play in the all star tournament also.  She is hoping to make the team next year.

 This year McKenna went to preschool (the last semester.)  None of my kids have done preschool and they were all a little jealous.  I just always want to keep them home for as long as possible with me.  We found out that at the high school they taught a class about teaching preschool the first semester of the year and then they try to find kids to come and participate for them to teach the second semester.  So the high school kids are the actual teachers.  It was only  1 1/2 hours a day 4 days a week and only cost $35 for the whole semester.  Since this girl is home alone with me with no sisters to play with I have felt a little bad for her.  So we signed her up and she thought she was as big as her sisters. 

Here she is on her first day.  She had a smile on her face that whole day and couldn't wait for school to start every day. 

 The school also had a daddy daughter dance.  Alexa had a basketball tournament that night so it was just Daddy, Olivia and Maya.  They were so excited.  They had been planning their outfits for days.  Tim was so sweet to stop on his way home and get them corsages.  They were giddy with excitement.

I love this picture.  After the dance he took them out for ice cream. He said they were dancin' fools and danced practically the whole night.  I think they'll remember that night for a long time.

I mentioned before that Maya is my planner.  For Valentine's day she wanted to make her teacher something.  So we looked on pinterest for some ideas.  She decided on this one. I thought it would be easy, which it was, just super time consuming.  We made a heart out of a square piece of Styrofoam.  Then you cut out circles of red fleece and fold them in 1/4's.  Then you just pin them all over the heart.  It turned out pretty cute.  I would love to make one for myself but now I know how long they take - probably won't ever happen.

Then there was teacher appreciation week and of course Maya had to plan on giving something to her teacher again. It's a good thing I love her teacher too or I wouldn't be so willing.  Maya came up with the idea of making flower sugar cookies and then putting them on sticks and sticking them into a pot.  So, we did it.  I think they turned out darling.  I found a recipe for Royal icing and it worked great.  I don't think I'll use any other icing again on sugar cookies. 

It's been a full school year but I don't think I'd change anything.  We'll be glad to be done soon.