Graduation 2024!!!

 It's official!! Ella is an Atascocita High School graduate!

She started her first day of kindergarten as this adorable girl who is now grown into an adult. 

Graduation day was really hot but the sun was shining! 

She had to come out and sing the national anthem with her choir. 

Receiving her diploma! 

My parents, two sisters, and Chris and his son Coleton came to support Ella on her big day! 

It was so sunny. 

Just missing Corey! 

We are proud of her! 

She finished top 10% of her class out of 846 students! She was in national honor society and received two scholarships! The founders scholarship from SUU and the choir scholarship for the year. She has worked hard and even when most people slack off and get bad senioritis their last year, she ended up with her best grades of all four years! Way to finish it off Ella!

The next night my parents came over again, for like the 5th time that week, to go to Ella's seminary graduation from the church education program. She was dedicated all 4 years to waking up and being at seminary every morning at 5:50 a.m. She is obedient and a great kid, and I am grateful for her dedication. She had to organize the seminary graduation and sing a musical number. 

Her senior year her teachers were Brother Lindsay and Brother Stansel and they were great. 

We were able to have a big open house with the 12 seniors who are in our church ward that she graduated with. It was wonderful and so many people were generous and supported her.

Now she has officially closed that chapter of her life. 

Ella's Senior Week of Celebration!

Ella's last week of school was filled with so many events!! She had her last orchestra concert, her Eagle Springs Elementary senior walk, her TMS stem academy reception, her orchestra banquet, and her choir banquet. I loved being able to attend with her and see all the hard work she has put in the last four years come to a close and be rewarded. 

These were her two best elementary friends, Helen and Audrey who is the valedictorian for their class. 

All these kiddos are graduating and off to great things! 

Ella and Cavin had fun at their orchestra banquet together! 

The seniors were few as they had a difficult director the years before, but these are the few that stuck it out and it paid off as a new instructor came in and made the program fun again! 

I'm so glad Cavin decided to continue on in orchestra.

Her choir banquet was great! 

These seniors got the outstanding senior award. 

We were so thrilled that Ella won the $1500 choir scholarship for the year! We are so proud of her!! 

Mrs. N was a great influence on Ella and I'm so grateful for good teachers. 

Ella also started her first job the week after school ended. She is working at Crumbl cookie! Such a big week for her! 

Channing's Pop Show

Channing had her end of the choir year pop show. She did a great job and got a couple of awards. One for outstanding varsity 2nd soprano, and one for a superstar solo singer for her solo and ensemble competition. 

She is a wonderful singer. She didn't do a solo this year as she couldn't find a song she wanted to sing. She was elected a choir officer next year, so she will be continuing on in choir her last year of middle school. 

TMS Athletic Banquet

Channing was invited to the Timberwood Middle School Athletic banquet. She received the hustler award for her B team Basketball team. 

She tried out for all the sports this year and made all but Volleyball. She went from Cross Country to basketball to Track to Soccer. She loves being a part of a team and she progressed in a lot of the sports. We are proud of her for trying new things!

Orchestra Marathon

Ella and Cavin played in their last orchestra concert of the year together. While it was a wonderful performance, it was extremely long!! Like, I legit could run a marathon with how long the concert was!! 

Cavin had a solo with a small group at the very beginning of the concert where he and Ikeke and Robin played "A Whole New World" he played the cello, Ikeke the violin, and Robin the piano. It was really good! He is a great cellist! 

It was a hard piece and he did a fabulous job! 

We got some great pictures from my dad who came. 

I love hearing them play! 

Ella had several songs and they were amazing! 

They did a senior piece for the Seniors from each orchestra to play together. 

I love that Ella and Cavin have had orchestra that they could do together. I'm sad this was their last concert together. I hope they always play the cello.