2024 was a year of big changes. Carter started middle school and is thriving! Elise is at school by herself for the first time ever. In preschool I taught at the school with her and from kindergarten on, she had Carter with her. They have both handled the changes really well. I moved down to 1st grade and although it it more exhausting and challenging than 2nd grade, I feel like I'm back home where I belong. Ty took a promotion at work at the very end of 2024 and will start his new position as purchasing specialist at the beginning of 2025. Carter has some big things coming in 2025. He designed a Christmas ornament that was selected to be on the Oklahoma tree on the White House grounds, we will get the original drawings back in 2025. He entered the Spooky Story Contest at the library and was one of 30 authors out of 423 submissions whose story was selected to be published. The book will come out in February! Then right before break he auditioned for a part in his middle school's production of Matilda the Musical and earned the part of Bruce which was his top choice! The musical will be in April and I'm so excited to see him perform!
January
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| Carter shadowed at Carver Middle School and officially chose it as his top choice for middle school. |
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| Carter performed in an honor choir, Circle the State with Song. |
February
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| Carter researched Lafayette and performed as him for a wax museum at school. |
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| Elise performed in her 3rd grade music performance. |
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| Carter participated in his last Pinewood Derby through Cub Scouts. |
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| We celebrated Valentine's Day. |
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| We celebrated Elise's 9th birthday! |
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| Carter competed in his first chess tournament. |
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| Elise set a goal to sell 1,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies and succeeded! |
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| Carter competed in SeaPerch. |
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| We celebrated the life of my grandpa at his memorial. |
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| The whole family (minus the kids) traveled to Boston for the marathon. |
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| We experienced a near total solar eclipse in Oklahoma! |
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| Elise represented Venezuela for her school's cultural fair. |
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| Carter learned a Costa Rican dance for the cultural fair at school. |
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| The kids enjoyed Field Day for the last day of school. |
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| Carter graduated from Zarrow International School and promoted to middle school. |
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| The kids had their last day of school. |
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| Paul and Amanda came to Kansas for a visit and we had an amazing cousin fun trip! |
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| Elise got to go to a special event for selling over 800 boxes of Girl Scout cookies! |
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| We enjoyed another year at Girl Scout Day Camp! |
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| We completed the Summer Reading Program. |
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| We celebrated the 4th of July. |
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| We celebrated my birthday. I ran from the house and met them at a yummy spot for brunch! |
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| Elise did her first full week at sleepaway camp. |
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| We had an amazing trip to visit Ang which included a trip to Sea World where we got to enjoy a penguin experience she treated us to! |
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| Ty and I celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary. |
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| We had a nice visit with my grandma. |
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| She and Carter are now very close in height! |
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| I had my first day of school. |
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| The kids had their first day of school. |
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| We visited a pumpkin patch with friends. |
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| Elise ran in her first ever cross country race and finished 7th out of 120 runners! |
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| I fell while running on trails and ended up with 8 stitches in my knee which led to 2.5 weeks with no running so it could heal! |
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| Ty competed in a Gravel Smasher bike race. |
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| Gma and Gpa watched the kids while they were off for fall break, our breaks didn't align this year! It happened to fall over Gma's birthday! |
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| We celebrated Halloween, both the kids picked inflatable costumes. |
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| We had book character dress up day at school on Halloween. |
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| We took mom and dad to eat at Roosevelt's to enjoy their holiday decorations. |
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| We celebrated Thanksgiving in Topeka. |
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| We celebrated Thanksgiving in Pittsburg. |
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| We celebrated Carter's 12th birthday. He got a gaming computer. |
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| We did lots of fun holiday stuff! |
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| We celebrated Christmas in Topeka. |
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| We celebrated Christmas at home. |
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