Last Day of Third Grade!

I still can't believe that my first baby is finished with 3rd Grade.  It makes me sad on one had, but so very proud on the other.  She is the sweetest, smartest, most genuine little girl I know.  We were especially sad for this year to end because it was her last year at Olive Chapel Elementary.  Our neighborhood was rezoned for the new school, Scott's Ridge, that will open in the Fall.  It will be on a traditional calendar.  We have certainly loved the year-round schedule, but will be just fine with traditional, too.  We are excited about all of the great opportunities that come with a brand new school.  We know that Kamdyn will do great!  We are certainly happy that Sydney will be joining Kamdyn at Scott's Ridge.  Their other little friends will still be at OCE.  Look out 4th Grade!!  Here they come!!

CF Walk

Kamdyn has a friend in her class who has Cystic Fibrosis.  She also has a friend in her class who has a sister with Cystic Fibrosis.  These cuties were supposed to be at Saturday school for a half day for a snow day, but decided to walk in the CF walk for their friends instead.  I thought it was a great and sweet thing for them to do!  Thankfully, Sydney's Mom was able to take Kamdyn.  I was home with Karcie.  Richard was fishing at the lake.  

Kamdyn's teacher walked, too.  Such a great way to raise money for these awesome kids!

Lila, Mia, Emily, Kamdyn, Sydney, and Wyatt in the back.

Sydney, Ms. Moonan, Emily, and Kamdyn

Stephanie, Ava, Mia, Abigail, Kamdyn, Sydney, Emily, and Wyatt...Ms. Moonan front and  center!

Olivia the Pig

Book Character Day was the day after Kamdyn's birthday.  After all of the crazy birthday excitement was over I had to quickly come up with some pig ears for her to wear late that night.  Thankfully, my neighbor had a pink piece of construction paper.  We had a pink headband and Google Images had a template that I traced.  Woo!  Nothing like waiting until the last minute.  I will say, she was a cute little Olivia pig.

Kamdyn's Actual Birthday!

Kamdyn had a great birthday on her actual day.  Aside from the April Fool's antics that people try to pull on her, it was a great 9th birthday.  

First of all, she dressed in the cutest little yellow and navy outfit complete with a chevron bow.

Then, Karcie and I took Chick-fil-A to her school and had lunch with her.  We also stopped by Dunkin Donuts on our way to Chick-fil-A to get her requested birthday treat for her class.  6 glazed donuts.  6 strawberry frosted donuts.  6 chocolate frosted donuts.  6 double chocolate donuts.  

After lunch, Karcie and I went back to her classroom for her birthday treat.  The class sang Happy Birthday and were so sweet to our Kamdyn.  They were having centers afterwards so I agreed to stay and run one of the learning centers.  Ours was an Easter game so Karcie got to play, too.  She actually won the game which had the older kids scratching their heads.  

For dinner that night, our girls chose her favorite Apex Mexican Restaurant, Arranda's.  Last, we got home and she opened all of her gifts from our family.  She is one lucky duck who is loved by so many!!

Beautiful!

Lunch with the birthday girl!

And a sweet treat with the birthday girl!

Ms. Moonan's birthday message.  

Karcie won!!  She completed the rabbit first!

Daddy and his girl at dinner.

Mommy and the baby girl at dinner.

Kamdyn got The Voice for the Wii from Aunt Kathy and Uncle Jim.  She couldn't wait to play it!

Think she got enough?  And this was JUST from the family.  Her stack from her friends was just as tall!  

Kamdyn is 9!!

Kamdyn had so much fun at her Jellybeans Skating Party!  I loved watching her skate with all of her friends.  They all seemed to have a really good time.  I tried to take as many photos as I could, but I was a one woman show.  I missed having Richard there for photos and videos.  It was hard to get everything on camera while enjoying the party.  Plus, I was half asleep. ;)  

Our favorite part of this party was that it wasn't very expensive and EVERYTHING was included.  All we had to do was show up!!  Georgia did make the adorable applique skate shirts the girls with each of their names on them.  We got so many compliments on them from others at the skating rink.  My favorite comment was, "Your shirts are so cute!  Who made them?  Are you girls in a skating league together?"  I tell you, after the many parties I've planned and the amount of time, money, energy and stress that I've put into them, I can say without a doubt that I enjoyed this route the most.  I was looking forward to actually skating if Richard had been there.  But that was hard to do when I was in charge of watching all of these girls.

Check out the video of Kamdyn doing the Hokey Pokey!!  It was so cute!!

Emily, Kamdyn, Mia, Emily, Morgan, Abby, Sydney, and Ella.  One of her other friends, Abigail, got there a little late and wasn't in this photo.  It was the perfect number of girls!!

Morgan, Sydney, Abby, and Kamdyn

Morgan, Sydney, and Emily

Kamdyn skating with Ella.

Kamdyn was sad because Ella was moving back to Michigan the very next day.

Emily, Sydney, Emily, Abby, Kamdyn, Ella, and Morgan

Morgan, Ella, Kamdyn, Abby, Emily, Sydney, Emily

In the middle getting ready for the Hokey Pokey

Eating Pizza!!

Kamdyn and sweet Mia!

Happy???

All of her little friends and two little sisters.

They even provided the cookie cake.  Would mine have been cute??? Yes!!  But, mine would have cost A LOT more and the girls probably loved this much more than cake anyway!

Kamdyn's tickets from the arcade.

Twin Day at School

The girls had twin day at school a few weeks ago!  They have these matching/coordinating dresses that we monogrammed for them.  Kamdyn's is TOO small, but she insisted that I pull it out for the special occasion.  They did look pretty cute, I have to say! So glad that Kamdyn has such a sweet friend who lives a few doors down.

I made them stand on the front porch and it was freezing that morning!

Sweet little smiles!

And then the crazy faces!!

Spelling Bee!!

Kamdyn won her class Spelling Bee again this year!!  We are SO proud of this little girl!  She moved on to the school Spelling Bee.  Last year she finished third.  This year, she didn't get quite as far, but it's not because she didn't study REALLY hard.  She knew those words!! 450 of them to be exact!!  Words that we had never seen before.  I had to Google most of them and have the computer pronounce them for us.  She got stumped on a word by over-thinking it.  She was so disappointed in herself.  She had such high expectations after last year.  She is so hard on herself!!  She reminds me of someone else that I know.  

We, however, couldn't be more proud of her.  It's an honor to be in the Spelling Bee and she did her best!!  

Her sweet little friends and classmates came to cheer her on!  That made her super happy, but also made her even more upset when she misspelled her word.  :(

WE love you, Kamdyn Lucy Terry and so do your friends!!

Kamdyn and Abby

Abby, Stephanie, Kamdyn, Mia, and Ella

Kamdyn's Gingerbread Play

Kamdyn's class put on a fabulous Gingerbread play for all of the parents.  It was so adorable!!  Kamdyn LOVES to act and sing.  We have GOT to get her in a Children's Theatre Play some place near Apex.  I'm so thankful that she has such a wonderful and fun 3rd grade teacher.  3rd grade is serious business, but her teacher also always a lot of time for fun.  Nanny even drove up to see her!!

Front and center!!

Covered in powdered sugar!!

Our Super Speller!!

This precious girl won her class Spelling Bee again this year!!  We are so proud of her!  The school Spelling Bee is on January 7th.  Wish her luck!  We know she will do great!!

Only Kamdyn

This is the only kid that I know that voluntarily pulls out workbooks so that she can work on school work on her first day of track out.  Love her to pieces and I am amazed at how much she loves learning!!

Kamdyn's Harvest Celebration

We have been so pleased with the teachers that Kamdyn has had thus far at Olive Chapel.  Ms. Moonan is fabulous.  She is super organized which I LOVE!  She is also very fun and loves to keep elementary school kid-friendly by having special activities and days such as these.

 

This particular day required a lot of parent volunteers.  The Dads or Grandpas were supposed to come and help each child carve a pumpkin.  Then, other parents ran different stations that the children rotated through.  Since Richard works out-of-town, I had to do the pumpkin carving.  Thankfully, my awesome neighbor, Colleen, was willing to let Karcie go to her house for a while to play with Campbell so that I could be there for Kamdyn. 

 

Kamdyn requested a Tiger Paw pumpkin even after my suggestions of other things such as Hello Kitty, a bat, etc.  Nope!!  She wanted a Tiger Paw. Secretly, I was overjoyed for many reasons, but mostly because a Tiger Paw is one of the easiest things to carve.

 

She has the sweetest class.  I love seeing the kids interact and I enjoy meeting the parents, too.  It was a fun day!

Cutting the top!

She is such a perfectionist!

Dotting the stencil.

Can you find ours?

Go Tigers!!

Kamdyn and some of her sweet friends.  Abby, Sydney, Emily, and Ava.

Shooting some hoops with Mr. Mike, Mia's Dad!

Kamdyn and Mommy selfie.

Making caramel apples with Ms. Stacey, Sydney's Mom.

Sweet friends.....Mia and Kamdyn.

Mia, Sawyer, and Kamdyn

Tattoo Station

Look what this stinker was doing while we were at the Harvest Celebration.  Happy as a Clam at her second home.  I swear she would move in with them if I let her!