PattisBlessedFamily: Track and Field Day and Last Day of school

Wow...I am so behind on updating this blog. What a completely crazy time of year!! We are now officially on summer break!!! Yeah!! Super excited for lazy days and no schedule (I will start to go crazy in few weeks but for now I'll enjoy it!). Ellie had her annual Track and Field Day/Picnic at school on the Monday May 14th. It's always a a fun day to go and watch all the kids have fun. It's so different than when I was a kid and we got medals and it was very competetive (I still remember Anna B beating me every year in the cross country relay!). Now they make it more fun and non competitve. But since Ellie is so incredibly fast you could tell she was wanting to win the races! She is so fast and everyone comments on her speed. We are thinking of trying out a track club soon to see how she likes it. Where did she get all the speed?? Definitely not me! Grandma Stephanie came to watch the events and then we all stayed for the picnic. It was an absolutely gorgeous day to be outside! The last day of school was Friday May 18th. We started the morning with a trip to Donut Professor for end of the school year donuts! Then Jack's class had a little celebration at the end of his class. His teacher puts together a class video for all of us to watch---tears steaming down my face! It was even more sad this year because his teacher is leaving to move back to California so we will have a new teacher next year. We love Ms. Lindsday and will miss her so much. We are so lucky we got to have her for 1 1/2 yrs! Ellie rode the bus home as usual and the minute she got off the bus I knew something was up. She looked so pale and looked like she was going to cry. I asked her what was wrong and she said nothing. She then proceeded to walk in the front door, sit down and the table and then vomited everywhere :( Not a good way to start summer vacation. Poor girl was burning up and felt awful. So needless to say we spend the last day of school camped out on the basement couch. She got sick a couple more times and ran a fever through the weekend but thankfully felt better by Sunday for our getaway to Great Wolf Lodge (post on that later!). And thankfully no one else caught the nasty virus! Hopefully we got our sickness out of the way at the beginning of the summer. We've got way too many things to do be sick!! End of the school year---always such a BITTERSWEET time. I can't believe my babies are growing up so fast and I will have a 3rd grader next year.....where does the time go???