Indigestion

I just love this comic strip, more then often it hits close to home.
Click directly on the comic strip if you can't read it.

Congratulations Ethan

Last night we attended the Awards Night at our sons high school.
Ethan was invited to attend not knowing what he would receive.

They started the ceremony with the Community Organization Awards; these are awards and scholarships given out by villages and organizations in the sorrounding area. The representative from the Darien Lions Club stepped up to the podium and asked if Ethan would come on stage. Ethan was presented the Bob Counsell Scholarship from the Darien Lions Club. He was awarded a $1000.00 scholarship that is renewable for a second year if he maintains a B average his Freshman year of college.
Plus he is to participate in the annual Darien parade. He will ride on a float/well actually in a convertable with the 3 other scholarship recipents. (Note: Darien does not have a High School so the students attend different highschools in the area depending where they live.) Congratulations Ethan!


Before the ceremony started


Lions Club Member and Ethan (he is on the far right by the balloons)


See there he is


The award presented


Ethan with his scholarship letter, I should have had him holding the check too.

17th Layout of 52

I was trying to post my layouts in some kind of time frame order, but that isn't working.
So here is a layout it is of Todd when he played with the Joyful Spirit "The Noise" band. They performed a "Blues Friday" serman on Good Friday

Card 17 of 52

I made this card for a weekend card challenge that I participate in.

More Flowers That Bloomed

I actually took these pictures yesterday. I don't know the name of the purple flowers, my mother in-law gave them to me a few years ago. They are actually a ground cover, so much they invade the grass.

Worth a separate post

Today Ethan received his cap and gown for graduation next month. They give them out a month ahead of time because they have a Senior awards assembly for those who have won awards over the past 4 years. During the Senior awards assembly the recognized students have to wear their cap and gowns.
When he got home, he handed us a letter he received while getting his cap and gown.
We have been cordially invited to the award assembly on Tuesday April 29th.
We don’t have a clue what award Ethan will be receiving. It may be that he will be recognized for one of the 2 academic awards that he already received or it may be something totally different. We will have to wait until Tuesday to find out.

BIG SIGH!!!

Well we had a very productive day today.
I started the day painting and it went incredibly quick. I love Glidden paint, it goes on so nice and only one coat needed. I probably also helped that we primed the walls 1st. I was done painting by 10:00am While I was painting Todd dug holes for the Peony bushes that a co-worker gave to me. Once we accomplished these two chores we headed out to Menards and got molding, decorative bricks, top soil and grass seed (Ok, I know I work for ACE Hardware and we went to Menards. If I want to get my discount I have to order directly from the warehouse and then wait a week for the merchandise to arrive. I don't get discounts at the local ACE stores) Anyway when we got home, I filled the tire tracks that the UPS driver left in our parkway with the top soil, and seeded the area. Todd took the decorative bricks and placed them around where the peonies were going to go. Then we had lunch and I asked for a ride on the Harley, we took an hour ride; it was a nice ride but ended up being rather windy. After we got home I then made a card for the weekend challenge I participate in. Once done with that, we packed up the car with shovels and boxes to go get the peonies. We ended up getting quite a few bushes; pinks, whites and purples we think. We will find out for sure once they bloom. Once we got home, Todd with help from the boys planted the bushes. I think when they fill in and bloom they are going to look really nice where we put them. I will take pictures of them once they take off and bloom.
So now we are relaxing after a very productive day!

Painting

We are trying to get some painting done before our sons graduation at the end of May.
I don't mind painting, I actually like it. It's all the prep work that goes into it that I don't like.
Hopefully we will have all the painting done by Sunday.

Gorgeous Weekend

What a gorgeous weekend the weather was so beautiful, I rode on the back of the Harley and my daffodils even bloomed!

New Driver in the House

Well we now officially have 4 drivers living in the house.
Jordan went to the DMV today and passed the driving test.
So now he can take his "roomy" Van out all by himself!