Each year, Blakely Elementary School holds "The Fitness Challenge," where the kids compete to see who can run the most laps around the track in a certain amount of time. They continue this over the course of five days and then tally all the laps each kid was able to eak out during each day's timed attempt. This event is also a huge fund-raiser for the school and the kids really enjoy it, as opposed to selling light bulbs or wrapping paper to raise money (Ha!) When Bill was at Blakely, he received a ribbon for being a participant. When Mike was at Blakely, he took 2nd place for his grade level one year. Brit, surpassed both Bill and Mike by taking 3rd place for the whole school! She was so surprised and so tickled! She knew she had done well, but wasn't sure how her numbers compared to everyone else in the school until they called her name :-) The top three kids in each class were awarded champion ribbons, and then the top three for the whole school were awarded champion ribbons! Pretty cool.
School is almost over. I cannot even begin to describe how relieved I am. This year, I started to become agitated around mid-May as the kids began to be loaded up with huge projects, tests, concerts, school and class events, preschool parties and plays, etc.(UGGGHH!) It becomes the logistics dance from h---. With only two days left, we are all breathing easy :-) I love having the kids home from school. There's a lot on the bar-b- this summer, but it's all good and all fun ........TREK, Lake Powell, D-WORLD, Biking through Idaho-Montana-and Wyoming for the guys, football for Mike, crew for Bill, chess camp for Brit (the boys like to refer to this as "nerd fest"), some mini-sports camps for Dan, and hopefully Education Week in August. We'll see you all at D-WORLD!!
