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First Day of 10th Grade

 Today was the first day of 10th grade for the girls.  Sophomores.  I can't believe we only have two more of these.  Not counting college, of course.

Kayley

Kayley again

Olivia

It has become my tradition to take the day before and the first day off.  Back in the elementary days, the day before the first day was "meet the teacher day", so I would always take them to that, then in middle school we would just go to lunch or get our nails done.  Last year was their first day of high school, though, so that day was orientation and that brings us up to this year.  The day before the first day is "Wildcat Day", which is mostly a freshman and new student orientation.  Olivia is in ASB so she had to go help with that, but Kayley didn't go.  Instead, her and I took some of her old clothes to this resale store called Plato's Closet to try and sell them (it's similar to a consignment shop except they just pay you then and there and then resell them, instead of only paying you when something sells).  She had two big garbage bags full but they only bought 4 items, for a grand total of $13.20.  Totally not worth the 45-minute drive down there, but we went to Target and got lunch while we were at it.

Today I am just enjoying a catch up day, a chance to get some things done around the house that I haven't had time to do lately.  Then I will pick them and the neighbor girls up, since, like last year, their bus doesn't get to their school to pick them up until about 45 minutes after dismissal time!  It's awful.  Last year, because of that, I used my lunch break (late) almost every day to go pick them up.  It was really a pain, so I decided I'm not going to do that again this year, except for today (since I'm off anyway) and Fridays (since on Fridays they get out earlier, actually around my normal lunch break).

Like usual, summer just flew by.  We took a super awesome trip to Las Vegas, Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon, The Grand Canyon and Lake Powell.  I have been horrible about blogging this year but hopefully I will get around to posting about that soon.  Heck, I still haven't even posted about LAST summer's vacation to Disney World/Island of Adventures, etc.  One day...


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