8th Grade Grad

Graduation Dance

After the graduation ceremony, there was a wardrobe change to prepare for the 8th grade dance. Siobhan was so beautiful. Her date, Kris, was right on time and patiently endured some good-spirited conversation with Dwight, photo-posing for me and some silent observation by Henry.

Music Man

Henry had a band concert recently. He's been playing the clarinet for two years now. He's planning to move on to the saxophone next year.

While saving the recent photos, I ran across some pix of him playing in a kindergarten music show. Here's a little 'then and now."

Science Fair

This week was the 5th Grade Science Fair. Henry made a volcano. He did some research, some experiments to find the optimum solution for maximum eruption, made the presentation board and built the volcano. Here it is...

Happy Father's Day, Daddy!

Patio Progress: Complete!

Okay, so it took longer than expected (running out of bricks didn't help...and then the 2nd shipment of bricks were not the same color as the 1st shipment, so we (I) had to re-position many bricks in order to blend the bricks...Dwight thought I was crazy...or should I say "thinks"), but we finished the patio! We have a lot more to do in the yard, but we're so glad phase one is complete. This was a heavy-lifting job and the heat wave hit NJ at the worst possible patio-building time. Still have to finish nudging the sand so it gets in-between the bricks instead of stuck in all the nooks and crannies ... one drawback about the uneven re-claimed bricks. I was hoping the recent rainstorms would help out with that, but no such luck.

First Beach Weekend

After a long, cold winter and yucky rainy spring and
too many track-meet weekends, we FINALLY went to the beach. We go to Seven Presidents Park in Long Branch ... on The Shore!

surfer boy

ignoring mom

ignoring drowning brother