changes...

This is going to be a place I spend A LOT of time,

starting in August (much before then really).

Luckily it is only about 5 minutes away.

I just got hired on as a 4th grade teacher.

They have totally rearranged and adjusted their 4th grade.

I am going to be the veteran teacher with just 5 years experience.

Not having taught for 5 years, makes me feel very inadequate to take on

such a responsibility! But I know the principal well,

since he is in our ward, and he will be AWESOME to work for.

So at least have that going for me?!

There's going to be CHANGES all around for our family,

to adjust to MOM working full time and DAD

continuing to work from home while trying to be MR. Mom!

Good thing we have the summer to prepare.

graduation

Tonight we went to Ikaika's graduation

from Timpview High School in Provo.

Here he is pictured with his older brother Koa

(who lived with us last year for a few months)

and his mom, Kuulei (Quinn's older sister).

Our family.

Not the best picture,

but you take what you can get, right?!

Grandpa Kimo with his oldest grandson's

Kaika with his Dad and Mom.
They are not still married, but have great boys, and
each are such neat individuals who have done
great things with their lives.

the graduation ceremony was LONG of course

but the kids did very well

(WITH LOTS OF TREATS)

and playing with their cousins.

It was a fun night with family and

a definite reason to celebrate.

Ikaika is an amazingly talented kid,

who I just know is going to do GREAT things!

a little of THIS and a little of THAT

Saturday Kaipo had his first tumbling class.

It is offered through the city, and is a great way

to TRY IT OUT for 5 weeks, to

see if he has an interest.

He is definitely a MONKEY,

which helps him climb the rope. Ame and the GIRLS in her primary class
got invited to be the servers for a wedding reception.

She was soo excited and look forward to this

FUN opportunity all week!!

In Ame's ENGLISH class, each student got
to have an opportunity to be THE TEACHER.
They each chose something they wanted to
teach the class in a mini lesson.
Ame loves writing in cursive and since
that is something not introduced in second grade
she thought it would be fun to teach THAT to
her class. Quinn and I came to watch her
and she is quite the little teacher! She practiced some of the
more difficult letters together with the class,
then taught them how to write a few HAWAIIAN
words in cursive.

giving some personal attention to her BFF Layla.

Ame and Mrs Smith

He's growin' up...

Tonight we had JOYSCHOOL graduation.

Our original plans were to have it outdoors,

but with the unpredictable weather

we opted to have it indoors at our house.

Good thing we had a change of plans,

because the evening

ended up being a rainy one.

We were crowded, but that didn't

stop the cuteness and fun!

the GREAT moms I did Joyschool with this year

(Jody, Jenny, Julie, Cathy, me, Diana and Lindsey).

I conducted and we had a cute,simple program.

The kids sang a few songs, they got report cards,

diplomas and hat. And even gave us moms

an award. One of the moms put together

an outstanding video with clips from

throughout the year. Such a fun memory to have on DVD.

I sure love my incredibly smart, sensitive, handsome Ash!!!

giving mom a kiss...

We have lots of yummy treats and fancy drinks.

A special night to celebrate OUR special boy!!