Ariana's Graduation!!!

Today was Ariana's graduation day. She is now officially a first grader!!!!! We have been waiting a long week for this day and it is finally done and over with. They had a lot more graduates this year, and it was better this year.

This year it was at an earlier time in the middle of the afternoon, that part I didn't like so much, but I understood it because there were more seniors graduating this year and the after parties right after.  This year the kindergarten graduates had to be in white, but I only had to buy her cap and tassel.

Happy kid. 

When we got there, we received instructions on what was going to happen and where Ariana was going to be. My mom and dad showed up a few minutes before it started.

Ariana was the leader that started off the ceremony. It was so cute to see her go up there first.  And her slide show made Cayce cry....lol. 

While Ariana was waiting in the back by herself with the other graduates, we had a picture session. I was so surprised that she didn't freak out and want to be with us. She was a big girl.

practicing before the ceremony started. 

receiving her diploma

 I didn't take many pictures during the ceremony because I was a proud mommy and my phone completely died.

After it was all done, we went outside and took a little family photo in front of my mom's new car.

The McLeod & Barden Family

Today was an awesome day. I was so happy. we have two years of homeschooling done and Addy will be starting her preschool curriculum this summer to get ready for August 2017, which will be her kindergarten year.

Sammy's Graduation

Today my baby graduated from Kindergarten. It was a great day over all. She was excited and I was excited, because all our hard work was paid off when she got her little diploma tonight. She had myself, Cayce, Ariana, Adalyn and her granny and papa came to support her as well as Cayce's close friend. I have a video that I will link soon.

We started the day off with taking the girls to my mom and dad's house while Cayce and I went to have his birthday breakfast at IHOP.

I get this Philly cheese steak stack every time.

Then we had to hurry back home to get ready because we had to be at the church by 5PM because the ceremony started at 6pm.

We got there and had no idea where to go and we had to walk in the hot sun and my feet were killing me and I was wearing all black. We found where to go, and we got inside and we got Samantha in her little cap and gown and almost instantly she started making new little friends. It was so cute.

One of my fave pictures is of her with another little girl who was wearing a white gown with a pink tassel, and Samantha was wearing a black gown with a bright green necklace. I will not be sharing that picture to protect the other child.

waiting for everything to start

they were Sammy's biggest supporters!!!

going to her seat!

getting her diploma

so cute!!

she earned this playtime, but she had to eat her supper first which she inhaled. she did the same thing I did on my graduation day from high school. I couldn't eat at all that day because I was too nervous, and because Sammy wanted to be clingy that day too. 

Look at my little graduate standing tall!

Kindergarten: Week 38

The last week of our first official homeschooling year!!! To say that it was easy would be an understatement. It was terrifying and exciting. I was terrified because I knew there was going to be a whole lot more to be done, and I was excited because we had completed a year of school with only a few breakdowns.

Monday: I decided to have a little movie in between work to just relax and say yes, and then we went right back to workbook work.

we were looking out the window at all the bugs and butterflies. We didn't go outside because our cat had a little baby snake in it's mouth a couple hours earlier and I didn't want my girls to walk in the tall grass and step on a snake.

looking pretty.

more domino math.

Tuesday: We spent the majority of the day at Target doing some grocery shopping and getting ready for our Cinco de Mayo supper.

Doing our shopping at Target because Cayce had to go and show us everything that he does and learned and his co-workers. SHOOT ME IN THE FACE NOW!!! I hated the whole trip.

holding the recipe up.

She also went to the library to get some Cinco de Mayo books, but they were all out. So we did workbooks and worksheets the rest of the day while our supper was in the slow cooker.

it was SOOOOOOOO delicious!!!

 

Wednesday: We had a normal day for school. We did puzzle and quiet time before our workbooks and we ended the day with read alouds.

coloring in her new Lego magazine that she got in the mail that day.

she loves this book and it's one of Cayce's favorites too because he is a Tom and Jerry fanatic.

Thursday: It's the second to the last day of school. We are super excited and started early this morning because we  wanted to get it done and over with. We did mostly read alouds and I found 2 games on my Tablet and she enjoyed those a lot.

she also built with her Legos. I think Lego are a great addition to any homeschool lesson.

Friday: LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!!!!

my gorgeous girl

she has filled her daily chart with 180 stickers for each day of school.

working on her packet that she did on the first day of school.

we got this in the box of books that we got from our pastor and she loved it. To end the day, we watched The Princess and the Frog.

 

 

Well, that's it. The 2014-2015 school year is now OVER!!!!!!

 

I am happy to announce that I will be continuing this homeschool journey again next year. This year was a total success and Samantha will be going into 1st grade and Ariana will be entering Kindergarten.