End of School!

Most of December has been very busy. Christmas parties for every child's extracurricular activities and Stanford's work would keep us busy enough; BUT here in Australia it is also the end of the school year and the beginning of summer break in December. Imagine the regular Christmas run around in addition to all of the end of school concerts, class parties, school graduations and so on. IT IS INSANE!!!

There was a point where every night for three weeks was booked. I thought the first two weeks will be fine but by week #3 I might start dropping a few balls. Balls were dropped...I think I missed two parties, I mis-booked babysitters for wrong times and wrong dates and last of all both girls ended up with the flu (or gastro as they call it out here). There was so much of a run-around that by the time the kids had their last day of school Christmas was just two days away and I was already exhausted :-(

So here are some pictures from the past few weeks:
Olivia has officially finished year 3. She had a hard time as the "new kid" when we first moved here but by the semester she had made friends and is now thriving!

 Olivia with her senior choir...these girls are all in her class- Olivia still looks so little!

 End of science lab
 Some pictures of Olivia's school work so I can throw it away :-)

Mary showing me some of her school work. Mary just completed year 1. I love first graders, they are so precious!!

Below is a picture of her brochure that she created for cancer awareness (she chose the topic because her good friend Millie still has cancer)

More school work-

(and if I can get stan to upload this clip....)

Here is a clip of Olivia singing for her end of year school BBQ. She had a fun time!