Where to start??? Baseball season is over for Jonah! They had an awesome season! We're having the end of season party here Thursday night. My sweet hubby is frying fish, chicken, fries and tots for everybody. Then he's going to make his famous homemade Oreo ice cream!! YUMMY!!
Jake has 2 more games to go, then he's done. I think he's ready to be done. They started off the season great, then fizzled. Some of the guys have just quit doing their best.
Today is Josh's first day doing a full workout program at the junior high. Monday they maxed out. Some of his were great and some not so great. But he's never done weights before.
Yesterday, Jake was a man. One of his friends' mom died and he went 5 hours to the funeral. His friend has lost both parents, her grandfather and an uncle in a 2-3 year period. She is just 14. Brad mentioned to Jake that he should ride down with their youth minister for the funeral. I never thought he would, but he did. We talked about how good it would make his friend feel when she saw some of HER friends there showing their support. I am proud of him!!
Since Jake was with the youth minister for 15 hours yesterday, I asked him if he got some scoop on the youth group. He found out that every Thursday will be a *focus* day. That means NO ELECTRONICS whatsoever. Goodness!! Whatever will he do?? I told him that I would try (keyword there!!) to do it with him. I'll let you know how we do!!
Oh, I wanted to show you an online magazine that I have found! It's called Seasonal Delights. It's full of recipes, decorating ideas, crafts and fun! I think this issue is the best!! I want to try every recipe and I have already made one of the crafts! (It was very easy and fun.) Here's the address:
http://sdquarterly.com/ I tried to make it link but couldn't! Sorry!! Have fun!
Wednesday
Amaryllis, dances and graduation
Josh had a busy weekend this past weekend. Saturday night was the 6th grade mixer dance. The 3 schools that will join together at the junior high always have a dance so the kids can get to know each other. Yeah right! I don't think there was any mixing!! But they had fun. For Josh, it was the last time he'd be with some of his friends. His whole group of friends are all going to different schools. Since Josh has a sweetie now, he wanted us to pick her up in the convertible!! So we did. Poor thing, you know she had to be terrified!! We know her parents from work and church but still! She did not want me taking any pictures but I finally convinced her to let me take one. And of course it's blurry!!
Then he had graduation Monday!! He looked so handsome and grown!! He received the President's Academic Award. But I have to say, the graduation itself was horrible. Imagine 120 kids in the school cafeteria and all the parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles and friends. It was very hot and crowded. There were 6 valedictorians and they all gave short speeches. We could not hear a word of them. I was so disappointed. One of the boys that gave a speech was Josh's best friend and he has a great sense of humor. I wanted to hear his speech, but NO!! Then the other one I really wanted to hear was from a girl that had been diagnosed with Hodgkins lymphoma at the beginning of the year and has gone through chemo and radiation this school year and still maintained a 4.0 (doing her school work at St Judes). It's probably a good thing I couldn't hear it because I would have been crying my eyes out. Speaking of crying, I did not cry at the ceremony at all. I did get a little teary eyed afterwards when it hit me that this part of his life is behind us and he is getting older!! It was sad too to think about not seeing some of his friends and their parents again. The graduation pictures are on Brad's camera. I'll try to post them later.
My sweet MIL gave me this flower a couple of years ago. It just bloomed this year. Guess it had to think about whether it liked me or not!!
Messed up!
I was just a bragging to my friend Laura the other day that I had put some posts in draft mode so I could just add to them and maybe be better about posting. There is a new post several posts down called New Pendants. It's posting in date order of when I created it. I'll have to do better with my next *draft* post!! Guess y'all get to go hunting for it......LOL
Outrigger Island
Tonight was the Children's Choir Musical, Outrigger Island. Jonah played the part of Ben, the preacher's son. Josh didn't have a speaking part this time but he did get to play the drums. It was a very good program!! The kids all did great. I was very proud of Jonah. He's only 8 and he did a very good job of learning his lines and then performing them. He even got a couple of laughs from the audience!!
More baseball pics
Here are a couple more baseball pictures of Jonah. In the group picture, Jonah is the one yawning!! Guess he'd heard enough!! Coach Brad was getting them fired up for the game. Both teams were undefeated until we won!! 30-5!! We play the same team today. Wonder who will win today?? I'll let you know.
New pendants
Gotta love making pendants!! One of these is for Jonah's student teacher's last day and the other is a birthday present for one of his little girl friends!! I bet I played with different fonts for an hour. Printed them out on white paper for a trial run and then decided to use them anyway. I punched out the letters then used my silver stamp pad to give them a *marbled* look. Unfortunately the pink one kinda blurred but he still wanted to give it to her. Doggone it, now I have to go to Michael's to get more stamp pads in different colors.......
Baseball is still going great! Jonah's Gorillas are still undefeated!! He is really into baseball this year. He is paying attention to the strategy of it. I just love it!
The end of school is $5ing me to the poor house. Every time I turn around somebody wants $5!! Jake is going on a field trip to La Tech to the Chemistry department and the Nanotechnology department. He is VERY interested in the nanotech. Next fall his science teacher is going to take him one Saturday to spend the day in the nano department. If he's mentioned it one time, he has a hundred times!! Josh needs $5 for chik-fil-a for his field day, $5 for his tassel for graduation, and $5 for a ticket to the 6th grade dance (he might need another $5 for his date!!) UGH!!! Good thing I worked 4 days this week!!!
Tomorrow is Jonah's field day. I didn't know it until today. Of course I'm supposed to work. It's from 8:30 - 9:30, so I'm going to call in the morning and see if they'll let me come in a little late.
Jake had a late ball game tonight. It didn't start until 8. I went for a little bit but then left so Jo could get in bed and rest for his busy day tomorrow. Brad is IM'ing me as I type letting me know the score. Right now Jake is up to bat, bases loaded. We're up 10-5!! I'm a little nervous.......and sad that I'm not there. The call now is 1 ball, 1 strike.........My heart can't take this!! Well, he struck out and he was the 3rd out. I know he is MAD. But they did win - 13-7!!!! That makes them the #1 team!!!!
Ok, I'm off to watch Grey's Anatomy and pout!! LOL
The game ball
Finally a picture of Jo with a game ball for hitting his home run!! Don't you love that smile?!
