First Day of School

Carter and Caroline were excited for school to start this year!  They counted down the days until meet the teacher.  Carter got in Mrs. Miller’s class…a new teacher to Florence.  She has taught 3rd grade for 6 years…I think she is going to be great for him this year!  When he got in the car after the first day of school, I asked him what he thought of Mrs. Miller.  He said, “I like her because she smiles all the time!”

3rd Grade

Caroline has said all summer long that she wanted to be in Mrs. Middleton’s class (Carter’s first grade teacher).  So when we got the call that Caroline got Mrs. Middleton…she yelled and screamed and did a little dance!  We LOVE Mrs. Middleton!

1st Grade

I love this picture of Carter…this was him smiling and telling me…”Don’t take pictures inside my classroom.”

Precious Caroline and Mrs. Middleton

Sweet Leighton had to wait 2 weeks after the big kids went to school for her pre-school to start.  She was counting down the days to be in the OWL class.  She has great teachers this year…she LOVES school!

It’s going to be a great year!

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Carter goes to CAMP REVOLUTION

Carter was so excited to get to attend our church summer camp in June!  Camp Revolution was for 3-5th graders.  He got to go with cousins Kellan, Canon, Cassie,  Anna and Olivia!  He had a BLAST!  He loved swimming in the lake, the trapeze, bonchi ball, and hanging with friends.  He wanted to make sure that Hunter was going to be in his cabin:).   He told us that “mail-call” was one of his favorite times of the day.  We sent him little treasures with each letter…which he LOVED!  I asked him what the bible lessons were about and he very seriously told me, “They taught us about a road.  Everyone is on a road and you come to a split in the road.  You get to choose which road you will take.  Will you take the road to Jesus or will you take the road leading away from what God wants to do in your life?”  (Oh good, he was listening!)

We sure were glad to have this sweet boy home!  Our house was WAY too quiet while he was gone!

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End of School Programs

Both Carter and Caroline’s end of the year programs were really sweet this year.  They each sang songs…and got to walk across the stage to receive some awards.  This year just FLEW by!

 

Sweet Caroline,  we are so PROUD of how well you did in Kindergarten this year!  You are reading so well!  You made a lot of new friends and enjoyed waking up and going every single morning!  We love you!

Mrs. Wimberley

Carter, You had a great 2nd grade year at school.  Your reading is coming along really well.  You did awesome in math this year.  You met a lot of great friends in your class.   One of your best traits is that you are a good friend to everyone.  Like Caroline you too  jump out of bed every morning EXCITED to go to school!  We love you!

Mrs. Wilson

Good friends…Donnie and Evan

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Ross Perot Science Museum

Carter’s birthday fell on the Wednesday after spring break.  Our cousins were still here (Oklahoma Spring Break)…so I decided to let Carter and Caroline miss school to go to the Ross Perot Science Museum.  It was really fantastic!  I highly recommend it!

The Gem and Mineral area was really cool! HUGE gems that were gorgeous!!

The 2nd floor was their favorite…Discovering life, Being human, and Engineering.  A lot of hands on activities.

While the big kids were studying their saliva on a petri dish…I took Leighton downstairs to the Children’s Museum.

Fun day with the cousins!

The perfect way to end the day…Birthday Brownie Volcano!

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Carter turns 9!

Sweet little man turned 9!  The last year before double digits!!  Carter’s birthday fell around spring break this year…so there was a lot of celebrating going on!  Our cousins, the Barnes, surprised Carter and showed up to spend Spring Break with us, which meant they would be here for his birthday party! This was our first party to have all of our cousins here to celebrate with us…it made it a whole lot of fun!  We invited a few friends and 7 cousins to Urban Air Trampoline park!  This place is crazy and wild…and the kids had a blast!

Crazy Woodward Cousins!

Having fun with our cousins… Posey’s and Barnes!

I love this picture of sweet Hunter helping Carter blow out his candles.  These two boys have a really neat friendship.  They have so much in common…they love adventure!   They get along so well…and love being together!  I pray that God keeps them in each other’s lives for years to come!

Make a CRAZY face picture…Carter being tickled!

Happy Birthday sweet boy!

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Carter’s Basketball Season

Ben coached Carter’s basketball team…the Vipers… again this year.  Most of the boys on the team go to school with Carter…which is a lot of fun!  Carter really enjoys playing basketball…and LOVES having his dad as the coach!  The boys worked so hard and improved each and every game.  What a fun season!

I love the picture below!  We were down 8 points with 2 min left in the game…and we came back to WIN!

Way to go Carter!

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Florence Western Day

 Florence had their annual western day at school.  This is always one of the kid’s favorite days! Leighton dressed up for the occasion too and we spent the day up at the school.  They played all kinds of fun games like wagon races and ball jumping relays…all the while trying to steer clear of the rodeo clowns!  At the end they danced to the “Cha-Cha Slide”.  Carter really got into it…which was cute.

MY HANDSOME COWBOY

The Rodeo Clown stole Carter’s bouncer…

Carter getting his groove on…

Some of Carter’s buddies…

After we finished watching Carter, Leighton and I had lunch with Caroline.  Leighton got to walk through the cafeteria line with Caroline…carried her own tray…and told the cafeteria ladies what she wanted to eat.  She thought she was SOOO big!  Precious Caroline LOVES having Leighton around!  She is the proud big sister!

I love the expression on her face when the clown would do something funny…

The Kindergarten class got to each bring a stuffed animal to enter into the “stock show” to be judged.  Caroline brought her little Lamb…who one The Sweetest Award.

It was a FUN day with these three!

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School Christmas Parties!

The kids always look forward to their school Christmas parties!  We started out Carter’s second grade party with a waffle bar…complete with whipped creme, toppings of M&M’s, fruit, and sprinkles.   The kids loved making their own!  They then made an ornament…and had a book exchange.

Caroline’s Kindergarten party was a lot of fun as well.  They all got to eat yummy desserts and drink hot chocolate.  Then they made an ornament and had a book exchange.

Excited about the Fancy Nancy Christmas book she received!

We are blessed to get to be in the same class as our sweet friend Addie from church.

After attending brother and sister’s Christmas parties the last few years, Leighton was excited to have her very OWN party this year!  These sweet 3 year olds got to decorate cookies and have a book exchange.

Leighton’s NEW smile for the camera…complete with nearly closed eyes:)

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Thanksgiving Celebrations at School

We had such a fun week of Thanksgiving Celebrations at school.  The first celebration was Carter’s second grade program.  It was a darling program with pilgrims, indians, and turkey’s.  Carter’s favorite song was “Turkey’s Unite”.  It was a song about trying to convince people to order a pizza instead of eating turkey on Thanksgiving.  It was pretty cute!  Carter had a speaking part.

Turkey’s Unite

Sweet Leighton had a Thanksgiving feast at preschool.  It was on Tuesday while I was at work, so Ben got to go eat with her.  She is in a phase of NOT wanting her picture taken…so this is the best he got!

Caroline was SUPER excited about her Kindergarten Thanksgiving feast and program.  She couldn’t wait to get to stand on the bleachers to perform.  They got to choose if they wanted to be an Indian or a pilgrim.  She chose a pilgrim.  They sang about 5 songs…and then got to eat a Thanksgiving meal.  She looked darling!  Her teacher pulled me aside and said that Caroline and her friend were “giddy” when they saw themselves in the mirror all dressed up.

Carter got to enjoy a Thanksgiving feast as well.  They each made a place mat to eat on.  On half of the mat it said THEN and the other half of the mat it said NOW.  They were given a plate of THEN food… deer meat, dried fruit, corn bread.  They were also given a plate of NOW food…turkey, cream corn, carrot cake.  It was a really neat idea.  The kids all LOVED trying all of the food.

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White Sox Baseball

Carter ended his baseball season with the White Sox last week. This was his first season with kid pitch.  The boys had an awesome season…they went 9-1.  Ben helped out coaching and had a lot of fun as well.

Ben coaching first…

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