First Day of School for 2013-2014

This year is a big change for us since we decided to switch schools and go to a charter school, Excelsior Academy in Erda. It's 10 min. away but I loved how they divided the students by level and pushed them at their own level. So we had kids pray about it and so did Alex and I, we got the answer to switch schools. So on August 19th, we headed to Excelsior to try it out. Kids were anxious and wondered about making new friends but so far (a month later) things are going great. It has been an adjustment with friends, school work, homework and uniforms to name a few, but overall, we are pretty happy.

 Braxton is in 5th grade with Mr. Olson (come to find out he was one of Alex's USU students a couple of years ago. We thought that was pretty awesome. Plus, he loves to tell cool Army stories in class that Braxton loves.)
McKailey is in 3rd grade with Miss Williams (who just got back from a mission that McKailey was excited about).

 Here they are in front of the school. This was Alex's first year ever to be able to drop kids off on their first day because he didn't start with students till the following day. Kids were pretty excited about that.

The kids meet in the gym and line up before school so we didn't get our traditional picture of them in front of their desk.  Alie goes to afternoon kindergarten which is why she is not in uniform in the picture.

Here is Alie all ready for school. She goes from 12:15-3:30 with Wed being different; she goes every other Wed from 8:15-1:30.

 Lining up ready to go inside.

Alie was so excited to start kindergarten with her new teacher Ms. Crane! She has done very well adjusting to school everyday and making new friends. She seems to do pretty well at making friends and playing with whoever will play with her. I can't believe she is so old.
This is Alie's first day of school work.