We Did It! Congrats to the Grad!

Well, we successfully watched Taylor B. do the graduate walk last night at Memorial Stadium. In some ways it feels like forever to get to this point and in other ways it seems like just yesterday that I was walking him across the crosswalk for his first day of Kindergarten.

The cold and rainy weather that was predicted for graduation night did not appear and it was a beautiful sunset as the RHS Class of 2008 processed into the stadium. We had a great view of him marching in and ended up sitting directly behind him (albeit, way, way up in the stands!) The two class poets did a fabulous job with their presentations, the keynote speaker was lame and the administration was brief with their remarks. Brian managed to capture the actual name calling and receiving the diploma (just the cover at this point - the diploma doesn't arrive until the end of summer.) Here is the clip...

Brian had to dash to the airport as soon as the ceremony was done so we didn't get to do many family photos. "Luckily" we own the cap and gown so when we go to the graduation dinner at Benihana's Sat. night we can recreate the moment. Here are a couple of pictures we did manage...

When the papparazzi finished with Taylor, he and his fellow graduates boarded buses for the school sponsored all-night party. I picked him up this morning at school at 6:15 am (yawn!) He is sleeping for now - who knows what is next.

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We Survived Prom!

Well, it is now Sunday afternoon and we are all home and safe. No body got killed, pregnant or arrested. Taylor is a bit worse for wear - perhaps because he had a baseball game today. I'm not sure he got any sleep last night and showed up at the field straight from the hotel. Here are a couple of pictures.

Before the prom...

Sharp lookin' dude!

After the prom...

It was a good weekend - lots of sunshine, lots of baseball. I wouldn't mind a little less baseball (3 games in one weekend is a bit much even for me!)

We head into the week with Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday games. Luckily they are all on our home field so we don't have any travel. And the weather is supposed to be decent.

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Ratatouille? No just Rats!

Did I mention the rats? Did I mention how I really don't like the fact that they leave poop all over my kitchen counter? I know I live in the city. I know I live in a house that is over 100 years old. I also know that coexisting with creatures is a fact of life in my neighborhood. I also know that coming into my bathroom and finding a dead rat in my toilet is beyond the bounds of sharing!

Luckily, it was Taylor who found the floater and it was not in the middle of the night - the imagination boggles! Not lucky for Taylor, but lucky for me because I use that bathroom. In the middle of the night. Without turning lights on. And I flush. Again the possibilities boggle the imagination.

I'd post pictures, but Taylor drew the line. He did step up and help me retrieve and dispose of the intruder but we were both gagging most of the way.

Brian is still in San Diego. We are all still trying to decide the breakeven point between the gross factor and the "it makes a great story" factor.

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What's the sign for bunt?

Alexander at bat - he put down a lovely bunt up the first base line. He was called out but he advanced the runner who came home to score on the next play. The evening was so warm I only had to wear a sweater! I'm beginning to think we might actually be getting done with winter!

The rats are back again - blech! I came downstairs this morning to find lots of little presents deposited on my kitchen counter. Luckily I've been storing my fruit in the microwave over night so the critters didn't steal anything. Looks like it's war!

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Happy Mother's Day!

I'm having a lazy day at home with my boys. Brian headed out of town to spend a couple of days with his mom before attending a work conference. Before he left, he spent Friday working from home and preparing my Mother's Day gift. I came home Friday afternoon to find my "weed bed" transformed back into it's orginal intent - a lovely herb bed. He planted new season herbs, tarragon, basil, dill, fennel, lemon thyme and cilantro. He also planted two rows of candy cane beets and Easter egg radishes. The crowning touch was my very own Brown Turkey fig tree! You can see the fig tree and some of the herbs in this picture - please disregard the dandelions!

This afternoon T&A came into the kitchen and annouced they were giving me my present now. It turned out to be a car wash and detail. I actually had to drive them down to the car wash, but they did all the interior vacuuming, cleaning out all the disgusting food, trash and sunflower seeds from several seasons of Little League games and wiping down of all the surfaces. Then we all got to ride through the car wash for the finishing touch. We love that! We all had a laugh when, as soon as the car was clean, the rain started. Oh well, it is nice and clean and organized inside again for the time being.

Tonight, after Taylor's baseball practice, we are going to walk out to our favorite sushi place for dinner. All in all, a nice relaxing day.

I hope all the moms I know are able to enjoy their day.

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It's Finally Spring!

Well, after last night's baseball game in 35 degree weather with rain and wind, the weather czar decided to give us a break in Seattle - isn't this beautiful? Too bad it is from last year. Once again we were lulled into a false sense of Spring security and it is raining again. We had maybe two hours of sunshine and blue sky. The good news is that we don't have any more baseball games this week. For those of you following along at home, Alexander's team record is 7-3-1. Taylor hasn't started yet, but when he does we will have 7 baseball games every week for 6 weeks. Good thing I like baseball!

It's going to take me awhile to get into the hang of thinking about posts for the blog - especially when my life is so darn exciting! I'm not sure a picture of me mopping and vacuuming is worth the webspace.

Okay - off to finish making dinner - lemon chicken pasta tonight - the resident pastavore is very happy.

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Hey Look at Me! I'm Blogging!

Well this looks like fun. This will be a test run to see how it all works.

Right now we are in "all baseball, all the time" mode. The weather cooperated long enough yesterday so sitting through first a soccer game and then a baseball game was quite enjoyable. Today we are back to gloom and grey.

Okay, that's about as much excitement as I can post for one time.

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