May highlights
Hello my faithful blog-readers. Once again I am disappointed that my blog has back-to-back monthly highlight posts - the last thing I want is for this blog to be a 12-posts-per-year thing. Well, I will try to be better, but rest assured, we had so much going on in May that this is sure to be a long post...
Let's start with Justin. He graduated from 8th grade and is excited about becoming a freshman next year. He worked with a trainer at the gym 3x/week in order to get in condition for football camp which starts June 1st. They did an evaluation on him before he started, and he has 1.3% body fat! He has been working on nutrition as well, and has certainly bulked up, but is eating us out of house and home as you can imagine. He is making overall healthier choices but still has a hard time passing up the energy drinks and junk food. But then again, who doesn't have vices?
Eric graduated from high school! All we can say is "PHEW!" What a long, tough trip it has been for him and for us. Seeing him walk the platform and get his diploma was a proud moment for Terry and me. There were over 700 kids graduating in his class, but it was very well-organized and didn't seem to drag on forever as we thought it might. Now his concentration is on finding a job and signing up for his Navy test. His best friend joined and is being deployed in early December, so I think that is motivating him as well. It still might be a bit early however, because he will need clearance from the surgeon who worked on his knee, and he's not sure he is ready for that yet.
NOTE: All above photos taken by Danielle - not me!
To celebrate Eric's graduation we had a party at a pavilion in a nearby park. It was a lot of fun! We got to see friends and family we haven't seen in a while, along with our 'regular' closest and best friends. Terry and Justin cooked up burgers, brats and hot dogs and I made the sides - corn & black bean salad, crunchy cole slaw and pickled okra. Instead of a cake, I made cut-out cookies and chocolate-Junior Mint cupcakes. Everything turned out great, but we had a lot of leftovers!
We were also thrilled that my sisters Danielle and Allison came from Texas to join us for a long weekend. Allison drove here with her husband Chris and their three kids! We thoroughly enjoyed the weekend with them, which included lots of swimming, family games, dinner at Organ Stop Pizza, a visit to the Phoenix Science Center and an impromptu crowd-watch at Phoenix Comicon. I'll post photos of their visit later.
What June has in store for us...
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| Mother's Day 2011 Terry, Jen, Justin, Sue and Eric |
Eric graduated from high school! All we can say is "PHEW!" What a long, tough trip it has been for him and for us. Seeing him walk the platform and get his diploma was a proud moment for Terry and me. There were over 700 kids graduating in his class, but it was very well-organized and didn't seem to drag on forever as we thought it might. Now his concentration is on finding a job and signing up for his Navy test. His best friend joined and is being deployed in early December, so I think that is motivating him as well. It still might be a bit early however, because he will need clearance from the surgeon who worked on his knee, and he's not sure he is ready for that yet.
NOTE: All above photos taken by Danielle - not me!
To celebrate Eric's graduation we had a party at a pavilion in a nearby park. It was a lot of fun! We got to see friends and family we haven't seen in a while, along with our 'regular' closest and best friends. Terry and Justin cooked up burgers, brats and hot dogs and I made the sides - corn & black bean salad, crunchy cole slaw and pickled okra. Instead of a cake, I made cut-out cookies and chocolate-Junior Mint cupcakes. Everything turned out great, but we had a lot of leftovers!
We were also thrilled that my sisters Danielle and Allison came from Texas to join us for a long weekend. Allison drove here with her husband Chris and their three kids! We thoroughly enjoyed the weekend with them, which included lots of swimming, family games, dinner at Organ Stop Pizza, a visit to the Phoenix Science Center and an impromptu crowd-watch at Phoenix Comicon. I'll post photos of their visit later.
What June has in store for us...
- A business trip to Florida for me
- Father's Day
- Football camp for Justin
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