Blessed By Coincidence-----

So just to make my life a bit more crazy, I have had to scramble and get Madilynn into a different kindergarten with less then a week before school starts!!

Long story as short as it can be: Our local school offers all day kindergarten to those who request it and can test high on a scoring test, the others are low scoring and the two are combined. Our principle last year, awesome Mr Cooper assured me that as long as Madi scored high she would be in. This was a concern for me because Madi is ready already and half day kindergarten will be so boring and a waste of time for her. Well yesterday i got a call from the school that stated Madi was not going to be in all day kindergarten like I was told. See we got a new principle and he has decided to make all new changes and he feels all of the students in all day kindergarten should be low scoring kids!! I can See his point on this but it really put me in a hard spot! Madi tested 3rd out of all of the kids tested for kindergarten so therefore she is too smart to go into this class.

So after not falling asleep last night until 2 AM and stressing over what to do I started making calls. Her daycare that she loves to go to offered to take her back with 2 openings left and would bus her to two elementary schools, Bellview and Edgemont. Whew I was saved even though this is not what I ever wanted!!! Well I made calls to these two schools and since it's 5 days until kindergarten starts they are full and not allowing any more permits! I started to cry again! Ms. Jenny at Skool Days (Madi's daycare) had 1 last idea but it may not work.

She had another parent that wanted her child to be bussed to Alta View Elementary but was told they needed at least 1 more child to make it worth the trip. So Ms Jenny said call Alta View see if you can get in and she would check to see if the owner of the Daycare would keep the agreement and bus to that school. Well it just so happens that Madi's grandpa and grandma live in that boundary. So I got in with no trouble!!!

So we are saved!!! Madi will be going to Alta View Elementary! So what's the big deal about this right? Well I called a friend to tell her of my crazy adventure and she told me that not only will Madi be going to one of the top 10 schools of Utah but they have a ALPS class as well. This is for students that are academic achievers and they help them progress faster and more in depth. This is perfect, all I wanted. Madi in a school that will help challenge her and help her grow in her strengths!! I'm pretty sure we will keep her there for all of elementary with such great choices. Not only that but grandpa is really only 2 blocks away. In a year or two she can just walk over to grandpa's if she needs to! This option was just by coincidence and now I'm really lucky to have what I got blessed with today. If you would have told me last night that this is where she was going to end up I wouldn't have believed it!!! I'm very excited for the opportunity that Madilynn will have with this, I hope she will enjoy it and do well!

Oh and just to top it off Madi only has 16 kids in her class at Alta View, at Fremont where she would have gone there would have been 25 -28 kids! Honestly, I can't believe I got so lucky today!!!

Thank you Heavenly Father!!!!!!

IS IT TIME ALREADY??/

I can't believe SUMMER is already over! What happened??? My kids had a great summer, they went to McDonald's, went swimming and played with their friends. I think our Wii got more attention then our dog Charlie! Now that's sad!! We had Wii tournaments in our house almost on a daily basis. Marquie and Rylee Jensen came over once a week and they had so much fun playing! I'm glad my kids had so much fun!!

So school starts on Monday for MJ and next Monday for Madilynn, I can't believe she will be in kindergarten!!!!! My baby is growing up soooo fast! MJ keeps asking big grown up questions and daddy and him had a talk the other night!!!! AAAAAAAHHHHHHH! This is just toooo crazy for me!! I can't believe how fast life goes. People warn you but we don't listen, and then we are stuck with kids that grow up toooo fast!!!

School for me has been absolutely crazy for me! I have an algebra class and if it weren't for two awesome girls, Bridget and Valerie I don't think I would have made it! This week is my final for the class and i really hope I do well! i hate algebra and I don't know why people have to take it!!! it's stupid and I don't know when I will ever use it. I said the same thing in high school and it's still true to this day!!

Life is pretty good for the Iwaniec home! We are blessed with everything we need, we may not have everything we want but we have everything we need. We went to Flaming Gorge over the 24th of July with my side of the family. My sister Stef and her family, my brother Ryan and his family, my sister Buges and her boyfriend Zeb and then my brother Tim and his girlfriend Laura came up from Arizona. We really had a lot of fun. Her is a link to a video my brother put together, it's fun to watch even though you don't know these people!! I hope we can do this trip again next year!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rQPrYoibUA

One thing I'm very excited for is in June of next year we are going to Germany, Switzerland and Italy on a 2 1/2 week trip!! I honestly can't wait!!!!! What an amazing trip this will be, I think MJ and Madi will love it! Madi will love all of the castles for sure! i think MJ will love all of the structures and art in Italy. Truly I can't wait!

Life for me seems so busy, many times I just want to give up, sit down and never get in front of this computer ever again. The only problem is that we told our kids that when I am all done with my degree we will take them on a cruise, just our family to celebrate! Now I can't give up because that's all MJ talks about! The funny thing is we have Germany first so I don't think he realizes how much school I have to get done first! Anyway, wish me luck on my life adventures!!