On Friday, William came home with his mid term progress report. He received all "M - meets standard" which is the highest grade you can get. He was also very excited getting off the bus because he won the "SOAR" drawing for the week. At school, the kids are given SOAR cards when a teacher sees them doing the right thing. It can be in class, the lunch room, computer lab, playground, etc. The kids put their cards in a basket in their classroom. Every Friday, they draw two names from each class and the students win a prize. William won a goose beanie baby. I don't think it left his side for 24 hours. He named it Gander. 

We had soccer on Saturday and then had a bunch of our neighbors (about 35 in total) over for a cookout. We had pumpkin and cookie decorating for the kids and the fire pit was set up for the adults. Everyone seemed to have a really nice time.  Our friends from Grand Rapids spent the night on Saturday so we had the boys bunk together to free up Alex's room.  They had fun on their campout.  

Peanut M&M giveaway at GFS

Our new chair

Go William!