The Congdons: February 2012

Friday, February 24, 2012

Girl Scout Cookies!!

Gwen decided that she wanted to try out Girl Scouts this year and see how she likes it. So far it's gone well, and now we are...

Selling Girl Scout Cookies!!

We have a case of each type of cookie sitting in our house right now (Thin Mints, Trefoils, Samoas, Savannah Smiles, Do Si Dos, and Tagalongs). We signed up to sell so many cookies because we thought we could sell most of them in our neighborhood.

Hahahahaha.

Some of the High School girls who are members of Girl Scouts apparently beat us to it. Gwen's pretty disappointed. We are still going to try and sell some here, but I'm not sure how much luck we will have.

SOOOOO...if you have a craving for cookies...or just love girl scout cookies...I will happily ship cookies to you (it's better than having to pay for 72 boxes of cookies ourselves, times $4 a box, which is what will happen if we don't sell them all, including doing a booth). Seriously-

I will ship cookies to you!!

So if you are interested, please please PLEASE let me know!!

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Photos From School

So I'm trying to play catch up once again. Here are some photos of the girls from the past few months of school. Some of the photos are really poor quality because they were taken with my phone.

Gracie's school celebrated spirit week during the week of homecoming, and each day they had to dress differently. These are three of the different ways she got to dress: as a cowgirl, ready for a beach party/luau, and as a rock star. Grace had a lot of fun dressing up for school each day (the other two days were each grade level dressed in a specific color-gracie's pre k did the color red- and the other day was wearing a jersey or shirt in support of the local high school).

Right before Christmas Gracie's Pre-K had a Polar Express day where her teacher and assistant teacher set up the room to look like the north pole and set up chairs in two lines so they could pretend to ride the Polar Express. Grace got to wear her pjs to school, got a ticket to ride the Polar Express, and got a Christmas Bell just like the boy in the story. She said they even watched some of the movie and ate some Christmas snacks. It was a lot of fun for her.

Right in the beginning of the year both Gwen's school and Gracie's school had a walk a thon to raise money for the libraries of each school. I had a picture of Gracie's walk a thon, but it won't work, so here's a picture of Gwen that actually ended up in the local newspaper.

When they hit 50 days of being in school, they asked everyone to dress up in 50's attire. I called my Grandma and asked her what they wore in the 50's and based Gwen's outfit off of what she told me. Right before we moved out here, my parents were getting ready to move as well, and so they had me and my sisters and one of my brothers (the other was on his mission still) go through all their stuff they were going to get rid of and pick out what we wanted. I saw this skirt in all their Halloween stuff, and since no one else wanted it, I took it cause I figured one of the girls might want to wear it one year (and save me from making a costume that year). Lucky I grabbed it-it was perfect!!

Just a week or so ago they also celebrated 100 days of school. All of the kindergarten teachers sent home a paper asking us to create a shirt that had 100 of something on it, whether it was 100 dots of paint or you glued 100 pieces of candy onto the shirt or something like that. Gwen decided she wanted 100 buttons, so I sewed 100 buttons onto the front and back of her shirt for her. She loved it (even though she doesn't look it...she hates it when I take pictures of her now because she hates the flash)!

The following day the had a 101 celebration and watched 101 dalmations as a special treat. They did a bunch of 101 activities and made 101 dalmation ears. Gwen thought it would be fun to pose goofy for this photo.

A couple months ago when it was still warm out in the mornings I caught Gwen pretending to meditate before the bus came. It caught on with the other two and they tried it as well. Those girls sure make me laugh sometimes!

We sure do love the school system here and the wonderful teachers Gwen and Grace have, and we will be sad to leave it all behind when we move to Texas after school ends in May. It will be sad, but we are grateful for the chance we've had to live here and for the wonderful people we have met. And I can never express how grateful I am and how much I love my sweet and silly little girls!!