Back to School Bash

It's Back to School for the Boone kids and tonight we lugged our pencil pouches, new composition notebooks, and freshly sharpened pencils up to the elementary school. Typing that made me realize that this our last "first day of school" for them to all be at the same school until Avery is a Senior in High School! Omg!!! Cue the tears!
Pulling myself together now. Sniff sniff.
We were super excited to hear who their teachers were yesterday because we had a couple repeats. Avery, Dalton, and Sawyer will be going into fifth, third and first grade respectively this year and we found out Tuesday that they've essentially shuffled the deck when it comes to which teachers are teaching each grade.

Avery has a brand new teacher, Mrs. Grace for fifth grade.

I can't even believe that she's old enough to be the big dog on campus this year! She wasn't really feeling me on my picture taking and gave me a "don't you dare make me" stare down when I started to ask for a pic with her new teacher. So, I didn't push.

 Dalton is our kiddo that really isn't crazy about change. So when he found out that his sweet first grade teacher, Mrs. Cunningham, had moved up to third grade and he was going to be in her classroom this year an infamous sheepish grin lit up his face.

More smiles were had in finding out our big FIRST grader was going to have his Kindergarten teacher again. Not only that, but it's in his very same classroom from last year! He all but jumped up and down when he found out! We LOVE Mrs. Schmitt!

We were walking down to Mrs. Schmitt's room hand in hand when Sawyer said "Mom, people aren't even going to know that I'm in first grade anymore. They're going to think I'm still little." I was telling him that no one was going to think that and that everyone knew he was big and strong. Right after I said that Sawyer looked down at our hands and said "then I guess I don't need to be holding my mom's hand anymore." My heart broke into about a hundred pieces. Not even kidding.

We have love, love, LOVED this sweet little school and all the families that fill it! So thankful for another year here!
One more fun summer filled weekend and then it's Back to School come Monday!