The Graduator

The week of Memorial Day, we went to NY to visit Daddy's family.  We had a niece graduating from high school.  It was so nice to go home when the weather was nice, i.e. no snow!  It was rainy and a little cool at time but better than yucky brown snow.  We had a good, relaxing time.  We got to eat at the best hot dog place in the world:  Hoffman's, swim, read, play cards, play laser tag (AWESOME!), walk around the homeschool conference (I've never been to an actual conference like that), talk to the ABB reps (I graduated from HS with both of them and we went to college with them; we go WAY back), see B graduate, eat Krispy Kreme on the way back to IN...........  It was a good time.

The Graduator.  Somehow C came up with that name and it stuck.

I just think this is such a cute balloon

Funny pix.  I think that's Papa Ed back there.

Yes she even arranged the confetti.

She's dangerous with a knife

All the parents march in first.  Then the graduates. 

While we wait there is a slide show of each graduate.  This is the Graduator with Kalei girl.

Each graduate gets a rose to give to their Mother.

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These are the balloons we got her.

Nice look on Grandma's wheels

She wanted glow bracelets.

Colts Game

When Daddy was working at the other job (the one really far away), there were some nice perks.  He was able to get some tickets to a Pacers game for he and C.  While my mom was still here, he was able to get 4 tickets to a suite for a Colts pre-season game.  It was so awesome!  The new Lucas Oil Stadium is amazing.  It's huge!  Peyton Manning didn't play, but he was there.

If you look at the center of the picture, the guy with the tan ball cap next to the  #1 jersey is Peyton Manning.

Easter 2012

This year I appreciated Easter all the more.  It means I'll see my Kalei girl again!

Once again, I didn't want to do our 'norm' for Easter.  So we had lunch with Aunt T and Uncle J which was nice.  We hid Easter eggs there for the kids.  It was a nice different.

A few days before C was at Aunt T's house and they dyed eggs.  He thought it was cool. I, on the other hand, think dying eggs is in the same category as play dough, bubbles, and side walk chalk.  I hate them.  I would not make a good pre-school teacher.

We did get C some presents that he had to open before we left for church in the morning.  The one thing I didn't get was a portrait picture like I usually do every year.  But with my little girl not there, it was hard.

Anyways.  Here is C opening his presents.

We made the guys hide all the eggs.

This is the Easter present I got for Little E.  Isn't it cute!  I love Sock Monkeys!

AWANA Quizzing

Each year, AWANA has what they call AWANA quizzing.  It's only for the T&T group (grades 3-6) and only for those that have passed a certain number of sections.  Daddy and I were asked to help coach and practice in the weeks leading up to the quizzing.  We had some good kids on the team.  And even though most of them were nervous, they really seemed to enjoy themselves.  We had some kids that did really good too.  C actually "quizzed out" of one of the sections, which means he answered too many questions correctly and had to switch places with a new contestant.  We also had another boy answer all the written questions correctly.

C in the multiple choice part.

This is the speed round; the one that C quizzed out of.

C's basketball season

This year C played basketball in the city league instead of Upwards.  It was a learning experience for him.  These boys are pretty good ball players.  This is only his second year he's played basketball.  He still did a really good job!  H only scored 4 points and they were all in the same game towards the end of the season.  The entire team was happy when he finally scored.  He had a really good coach which I think makes all the difference.

Look how high he's bouncing that ball!

Pretty sure this was one of the shots he made.

You would not believe how many jump balls there were every game!
Daddy and I started counting them instead of points!

Their jerseys were reversible.

Just for posterity sake:
1. Won 22-14
2. Won 21-19
3. Won 18-14
4. Lost in double overtime 20-22
5. Lost 23-25
6. Won 223-14
7. Won 29-26 (4 of those points were C's!)
8. Won the first game of the tourney 23-20

And that's all I have record of.  I do know that he played at least one more game in the tourney and they lost.