the Moore 4

Cali was so super excited, incredibly happy that school was starting :) And having said that, that makes Rick’s and my job so much easier as parents!

We started out the morning without any electricity in Farmington due to a crazy storm the day before, but fortunately the school she attends in Kaysville wasn’t affected.

Cali is in 2nd Grade this year and shares the same class again with one of her besties, Leah :) Cali already knew of her teacher, Mrs. Jensen, from her previous school and really liked her from the start as her own teacher.

Now we just have to get into the swing of things with a new routine/schedule for our mornings and nights. No busses this year, but maybe carpools? Some have walked already, but that would be a big, fat, ‘no-go’ for this out of shape S.A.H.M!

Homework has already come home and so we begin again. How did my cutie get to be in 2nd grade already? :)

Cali we love you so much and wish you another happy and successful year at school! How fun and exciting for you to be one of the many who are the very first to attend the ‘far-out’ space-themed school, Endeavour Elementary! Go get ‘em Explorer!!

P.S.

While playing after school today with Leah, Haylie and Carice, this is a paper she wrote:

“I started school today. My name is Cali. When i woke up i was excited! I wase’nt nervous at all! I like my teacher. my teachers name is Mrs. Jensen. i like all of the kids in my class. My hobbies are plaing with friends riding my bike, I want to learn to sew, so that might be one of my hobbies. I like dancing too. my favorite foods are sandwiches, pizza and other stuff my favorite things to do at school are reading stories, writing, going to recess, lunch, and so much more! Some of the kids in my class are Lauren, Abigail, Leah, Brock, Justin, and more I ♡ School!”

Today was the last day of 1st grade for our beautiful Cali!

Like last year, we met the kids at the bus stop by the playground and had a popsicle party :) It was a warm day, too, like last year.

She is on to a new adventure next year. There is a new school, Endeavor Elementary she’ll attend that is currently still being completed!

Cali loved her teacher, Mrs. Bushnell, this year and will miss her. Eagle Bay Elementary has been a great and fun school for her to attend as well as her previous Kindergarten year.

Happy Summer to you, Cali, and all your cute friends! We love you!

Last year – afternoon Kindergarten Crew on their way to the last day of school – June 2009

Welcome Home Popsicle Party :)

Hahahaha Ha! I give you permission to laugh with me as the title above is funny. What I know about gardening, as the saying goes, could fill a thimble.

Well, I know a little. My parents had a garden or two (or more?) that I remember as a child. It was enough to provide some tasty (and not so tasty- can you say black eyed peas?-ick!) food for our family. And that is my main purpose, really.

And to share with the neighbors and to give a break to the grocery bill.

I plan on naming my garden to play-pretend. (why should toddlers get all the fantasy fun? :)

But I want to be a successful gardener, so I ordered these lovelies: one big book and a subscription.

Pay no mind to the chicken on the front of my Organic Gardening Magazine. I will not be housing chickens in my back yard. I’ll take mine natural, frozen and prepackaged from Target, thank you very much. However, I thought of sending this article to my Alaskan Sister who is housing chickens somewhere near her home. She’s good with animals and I heard there is one chicken in particular that likes my brother-in-law – a ‘chick magnet’ is what they call him. LOL!

I found this great article about those darn ‘citronella’ plants, that incidentally, we did plant tonight in our front patch under the living room window.  Earlier in the day, I mockingly talked to Rick on the phone about that plant being some kind of hybrid and sure enough…

Oh well, we shall see what we shall see on that.

The article did list other plants to repell as well. Not sure if I will plant any of those, but it may be of interest to others in this area.

It gets itchy in our neck of the woods!!

In my last post I mentioned the Mother’s Day gift we gave to Rick’s Mom: a pretend citronella plant. I say ‘pretend’ because Rick found an article (and it just may have been this one) that points out that what we bought for her, as well as for us and our yard, may not be a citronella plant after all.

Or it is? Who do you believe?

(Always the quandary when there are two opposing sides to review)

We have not planted our ‘citronella’ plants as of yet. The weather has been doing a funky dance as well as time allotted to us 24-hour laden humans has left them in the garage hangin’ out with the Oregon grapes, peppermint plants and others.

Will we plant those ‘citronellas’ anyway?

After reading that article, I’m not sure what to do. A discussion to have with the husband when that bridge comes into view.

The plants really aren’t that pretty.

Yet the scent isn’t so bad. Which is what I wanted to have; pretty scented plants near the entry ways.

Darn Mosquitos!