{"id":871,"date":"2008-06-05T08:31:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T14:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/2008\/06\/05\/and-the-school-year-comes-to-an-end-finally\/"},"modified":"2008-06-05T08:31:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T14:31:39","slug":"and-the-school-year-comes-to-an-end-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/?p=871","title":{"rendered":"And the school year comes to an end&#8211;finally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but this year&#8217;s batch of end of the school year activities really wiped me out.  Maybe it&#8217;s because I had more kids and they were more involved than last year, or maybe I&#8217;m just not as with it as I was last year, but I had a hard time keeping up  with all the kids and all their programs and such.  <\/p>\n<p>To spare you all the details, I&#8217;ll just show a random smattering of pictures and call it good.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-05-13\/IMG_0983.sized.jpg\"height=400 width=300 alt=\"dance\" \/><br \/>\nJenna and Natalie had a dance recital.  I don&#8217;t know if they could look any more bored, but they still were cute and did a great job.<\/p>\n<p>       <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-05-13\/IMG_1021.sized.jpg\" height=400 width=300alt=\"preschool\" \/><br \/>\n         Here&#8217;s John at his pre-school &#8220;graduation&#8221;.  He loved his preschool, and lucky for him, he doesn&#8217;t really graduate because he gets to go there again next year.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-05-28\/IMG_1127.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>  <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-05-28\/IMG_1132.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>  <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-05-28\/IMG_1126.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>  The boys got to go on the Fathers and Sons&#8217; campout in Early May, and were very lucky that there wasn&#8217;t snow on the ground when they went.  They had a great time, and you can see more pictures <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/gallery\/2008-05-28?page=1\">here<\/a>, if you&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n<p>The girls had a music festival at school, where each grade sang songs from a different musical.  Here&#8217;s Jenna&#8217;s class singing about their hard knock life from the musical Annie.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-05-28\/IMG_1163.sized.jpg\"height=300 width=400  alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t get a decent picture of Natalie at all, since I didn&#8217;t have a close seat and she was hiding in the back row, but here she is singing a song from Hairspray with the 3rd grade.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-05-28\/IMG_1172.sized.jpg\"height=300 width=400  alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then the 6th grade sang songs from Grease.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-05-28\/IMG_1182.sized.jpg\"height=350 width=450\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Natalie nearly lost her head at a field trip to the Aviary,<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-05-14\/IMG_1110.sized.jpg\" height=300 width=350\"alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and enjoyed her market day.  <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-05-28\/IMG_1280.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cole (that blonde boy in the middle) had some great concerts in Symphonic Band this year.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-03-20\/IMG_0571.sized.jpg\" height=300 width=400\"alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s Megan at her 6th grade graduation.<br \/>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-06-04\/IMG_1292.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/> <img src=\"http:\/\/www.ericksonfamily.com\/albums\/2008-06-04\/IMG_1284.thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nAnd with her cupcake with her &#8220;graduation self&#8221;.  Can you believe they made little graduation cutouts of every graduating 6th grader?  Wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but this year&#8217;s batch of end of the school year activities really wiped me out. Maybe it&#8217;s because I had more kids and they were more involved than last year, or maybe I&#8217;m just not as with it as I was last year, but I had a hard time keeping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paige.ericksonfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}