Field Day

The Hyannis school invited the Lakeside school kids to school the other day.  Our school board has finally decided to close our little school so most of us will head east to Hyannis for school next year.  They invited our kids to attend their new classes in the morning, have lunch and participate in the field day that afternoon.  Kache and Ryder (he had kindergarten round-up) both had a good time in their classes.  Kache’s class will be the biggest in the school with 17 kids. Most class sizes are around 10 students.  I’m mourning over our school closing, and am still unsure about how or what we will do next year.  We’ll have to leave home at 6:15 in the morning to catch the bus in Lakeside that will take our kids to Hyannis, and the kids won’t get home from school until almost 5 in the evening.  So like I said, I’m not sure that this is going to work out or what we’ll do.  But we did like the school, the kids and the teachers. 

The field day was busy and long.  Our kids are used to that many kids; I think they felt a little overwhelmed.  The weather was great at first, but turned cold and windy by the end.  We were ready to be done before it was over.  It was a long day for those of us who had to travel so far. 

Doing the bear crawl.

Dallie, Barrett and Ryder playing after the big kids had moved on to other games.

Eastery Egg Hunt

We had our interns over for Easter dinner and egg hunt.  The kids had a good time and Dallie was happy to have another girl to play with.

Decorating Eggs

We were invited to decorate Easter eggs at the school.  Ryder and Dallie love participating in the school kids’ activities.  They had a good time decorating eggs and playing games at the school (and it was nice for me that we could do all our decorating there and not have to do it again at home). 

Megan, Kache, Buster, Boone, Steph, Lauren, Julia and Alyssa with their blankets from Ardith (she does some janitorial work at the school and is also the mail lady and a good friend to the school kids).

Barrett and Dallie.

Random

Our Family Home Evening snack all over Dallie’s face.

A bald eagle near Hay Springs, NE.

What happens to a windmill when it isn’t taken care of.  Jason abandoned this sight and had a new well dug a hundred yards away in hopes of avoiding the blowout that happened here.

Up a tree.

Kite flying.

A Visit from Jensens

Erica and her boys came to visit for spring break and Nebraska welcomed them with this:

They stayed for a couple of days, but this was the only day I took pictures.

These boys started building a fort in the back yard and then moved onto the meadow and built a duck blind. They brought their bb guns and the deer have stayed out of my yard ever since. Jason was busy the whole time they were here that they didn’t get to ride or do anything fun on the ranch. The big boys spent one morning processing heifers with Jason, but I’m not sure they thought it was any fun. Jason was sad they left after lunch, and my body ached the next morning from doing the job they had been doing. Weston went to school one morning with Kache. I’m not sure what he thought of it, but the three boys in our school loved having another boy, and they thought it was great when they smoked the girls even worse than normal in kickball. I don’t remember when Ren, Ryder and Dallie did the whole time, but they must have got along fine because I don’t remember any fighting. Erica and I spent our time in the kitchen.

We’re glad they came and hope they won’t be discouraged about all the work and little play so they will come again.