Simon's Graduation

Simon graduated from Mountain View High School Thursday, the 21st of May. He was one of 809 graduates. It rained, which made the weather cooler, which was fine with most of us. Better than the heat at Jon-Erik's graduation 2 years ago. There were 8 of us in our little Simon fan club, including my parents. We had 1 raincoat, 2 ponchos, 3 towels, 1 little blanket and, thanks to my mom, 5 umbrellas. Emma was the non-happy camper.She kept informing us over the course of the evening how she was freezing...but she survived. I reminded her that she is the girl who likes to put on her bathing suit and run around outside when it rains. She told me she hated the rain. I'll have to show her this picture to refresh her memory. :-)

This was our view during the graduation. ( I used Simon's camera at the graduation and even then sparingly...a point and shoot that I didn't know how to turn the flash off on. I didn't want to get mine wet. I had to use photoshop to fix them afterwards, but not too bad.)

This is what the field looked like afterwards. It didn't take too long to find Simon. He was lucky and got to sit under the BIG tent because he played in the orchestra and sang with the choir.

Adam finally joins us under the tent. He's wearing Jon-Erik's jacket and it's bulging. He opens it up only to send about 18 graduation caps tumbling to the ground...our little scavenger. So, if you know someone who couldn't find their cap afterward the ceremony, it's probably at our house. Sorry, no tassles, though, and the caps are only a little water damaged.)

Here we are demo-ing the said caps. We look a little like drowned rats, don't we??

It's been a crazy month leading up to graduation, with end of the year activities for 5 kids in 4 different schools. Here's just a snippet of what Simon was up to just last week, including a "before" pic before his haircut. Simon got to do a lot of the things that he loves to do: Sing, Dance, Act, play in the orchestra among other things. It's been so much fun watching him grow these past few years. We're going to miss not having someone at Mountain View next year. He's headed up to NAU in Flagstaff in the fall. We're excited for him. We both went to NAU and have fond memories of our time spent there.

Did I mention how much I'm enjoying these new templates from mcpactions.com? Here's another one with some of Simon's graduation pics.

Hooray for Graduation! Congrats, Simon and the rest of the graduates out there.

( Now that it's summer, I"m going to spend some time catching up on blogging)