Zach's Awards~

Well, since Mikayla starts back to school in 2 weeks I'd better blog about all of Zach's end of school awards.  The summer has been busy and good and fun, but not good for blogging.  I guess that's best,    but there is a lot I want to remember!

My handsome boys!

This is Zach being silly getting his Awana certificate.  Memorizing scripture is sooooo easy for him, but he really never wants to work on Awana at home so he only made it through one book.  Still proud of him though!  Maybe more importantly he earned enough Awana bucks to buy a giant stuffed Rasta Banana and a giant blow up banana.  Thank you to the parent who donated those items!  From all his years of Awana and being at a Christian school in Indiana he has a good amount of scripture memorized.  Lately, I have been trying to talk to him a little about what those verses really mean.  Remember when I used to post videos of him saying scripture in Pre-K??!!??  That was when he was Landen's age. 

Zach and his teacher at the end of the year open house.  Yep, he is finally taller than one of his teachers.  This is a goal he has had since 1st grade.  She was a great teacher and we were really blesssed by her no nonsense, unflappable teaching style.  

Funny how he wore his shirt from his school in Indiana!

This is Zachary the morning of the We The People competition. He was sooooo nervous but then his team ended up getting a perfect score!  

This is from the practice competition at school that parents were invited to.  He pretty much had his and all the other team members speeches memorized and if someone said something wrong or incomplete his teacher would look at him and tell him it was ok to stand up and clarify or add to it.  He really excelled at this and I wouldn't be surprise if he ended up being a lawyer or even president someday.

Zach has participated in Math League the past 2 years and it is pretty much just doing word problems for 2 hours every week.  Can you even imagine!?!  But he looooves it and he finishes his work in about 20 minutes and usually only gets 1 or 2 wrong.  I'm not really bragging (maybe a little) this is just how his brain works!

Zachary's school does a 5th grade Culmination, aka Graduation.  They get a certificate and do a couple songs and a slide show of kindergarten pictures.  It is really sweet and there's not a dry eye in the house.

They always sing Happy Trails at his school because they are the Wranglers.

But most importantly they serve cake afterward!!

So proud of his big brobro!

Even Zachary questioned if this was his kindergarten picture.  This is why I spend the extra $ to get the year printed on the corner of his school pictures.  This is Zach at age 5.5 and above picture Landen had just turned 4.  Same face just different hair!

The teachers made this montage of pictures with some sappy 80's music.  It was like they were trying to make me cry.

Then they sang "I'm Proud to be an American." Insert sobbing.

That's it!  We survived elementary school!

Last but not least was the Presidential Awards.  Between Mikayla and Zach we have quite the collection of Presidential Letters.  

Such a giant.

This is our amazing Principal!  He does a lot of great things, but this year he made a point to take his work out to the lunch tables every Friday so Zach and some of his friends could have a Chess League.  There weren't any parents willing to volunteer so he just made it happen!

All the kids were required to give a 1 minute speech.  Zach talked about how thankful he is for his family support.=) So proud of our smart, handsome, young man!

I meant to take a picture of his certificate signed by Obama.  I still will because it is pretty cool!