The Garden

Hey guess what I found? A post I meant to publish several weeks ago! Like the middle of May!! Here it is anyway...the garden is already growing nicely, so use your imagination and take a short trip back in time!

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We decided make use of a few empty spots in our yard and plant some edibles. Each corner, for some unknown reason, was empty except for a bit of wood chips. So we decided to fill them in with grass, with one exception. The biggest corner was tilled and turned into the new strawberry patch. We won't get much this year but I am hoping for plentiful crops in the years ahead. I missed my patch last year. I hope the new residents of our old house enjoyed their strawberry crop.

This area was a wood chip/weed patch last year. Jerry has big plans for this spot, including: tomatoes, beans, lettuce, radishes, and a few other veggies. I thought I'd take a picture now before anything is growing and then update every once in awhile so you can see how we're doing. We aren't known for our green thumbs so it should be interesting!

Graduation Wrap Up

Okay, last graduation post here...just a few fun photos from the night. Here is a shot of the graduating seniors. It's pretty much guaranteed these 307 kids will never all be in a room together again.
Jerry got a great shot of the caps going up on Roz's camera. I was taking the little video (see post below) so I'm glad he got a still shot.Here's an interesting fact:
These two girls, both from the DPHS 2009 graduating class, were born at Desert Samaritan Hospital (now Banner Desert) in Mesa, Arizona...yet they ended up here...together! This is Roz's friend Kasey. Kasey's parents graduated from Westwood and Mesa High in Mesa! Small world, huh!?! Carry On!
Roz and her best buddies Emily, Maddy, and Allison. Maddy is related to us in some distant through marriage kind of way. But I like to think of her as a cousin and she likes to call me Shelly McCormack. Just for fun. These friends will be scattered all over the state come fall. Thank goodness for Facebook! :)
Another interesting fact:
Three out of these four girls work at Piggly Wiggly! So does Kasey (from above) and Roz's friend Jeff. The local paper has a big section each year with the photos of all the seniors from both high schools (East and West DP). Here's Roz in the main section:Piggly Wiggly always has a big spread congratulating their employees. That place is staffed mostly by kids under 20. I don't know who is going to be checking out my groceries this fall! Anyway, this years ad had a few errors that we chuckled at (mostly spelling errors). Jerry said the pig himself must have filled out the form for the ad! The Pig must like Roz because her info was correct. And this concludes your graduation 2009 coverage. Please join us again in 2020 when our next child graduates! Don't worry the spread between graduations won't be that long next time as we'll have graduates in 2022 (x2), 2024, and 2026 as well!!

The Ceremony

De Pere High School
Class of 2009
Commencement

Class Motto:
"Together we have experienced life,
separately we will pursue our dreams,
and forever our memories will remain.

Class Song:
"I Go Back"
by Kenny Chesney

Class Flower:
White Rose

After the processional (307 graduating seniors) and a couple speakers the choir sang "I Am Your Child". Roz is in the front just a bit left of center.


Here it is...the moment you've all been waiting for...the young ladies are in red gowns, young men are in black. So you'll hear Roz's name and then a few seconds later see her cross the stage. And yes, they said Shown wrong. Did you think they wouldn't!?!



The celebration begins. Smuggled confetti poppers first, followed by the classic cap toss!

The Graduate

Here are some graduation photos for you!! I'll post more tomorrow (including a short video or two) but just wanted to get these out for you to see tonight.The Graduate

Roz and the boys

Roz with proud Dad and Mom

All eight of us!

And just because I thought this one was so cute...

The youngest looks up to the oldest

The End.

Today is the last day of school for Roz. What better way than to start the day off with a hearty breakfast of pancakes....in the appropriate shape of course!They were very well received!
I told Roz that I wanted to get a picture of her on her last day. Since I got a picture of her on the first day of school, I figured it would be good to get a picture of her on her last. Here she is wearing her senior shirt. It has a faux "Survivor" theme. Among the things listed that her class has survived this year: boredom, Ms. Brace (the principal), drug testing, and swine flu. For fun, I thought I'd dig up that first "first day of school" picture for you all to see. Her first day of kindergarten also happened to be her 5th birthday...exactly...August 19, 1996. But guess what? It was the land of pre-digital cameras. And when you took a picture you never knew if it would come out until you got the film developed many days (or weeks!) later. There were no second chances if you didn't get a nice shot. (Man, I love digital cameras!)

So let's just say the first day of kindergarten picture, while clear in my memory, is terribly dark and fuzzy on film. So you will have to accept my apologies and take this as a substitution:This is Roz (although back then she was Ros or Rosalynn) in kindergarten...just not on the very first day. Was she really ever that small? Or was that pencil just really big?

And just in case you didn't get an announcement in the mail...here is one just for you:We decided to skip the gaudy Jostens emblems and do a photo announcement instead. The graduation ceremony is next Wednesday June 10th. So look for a post full of cap and gown photos on the 11th!!

June Menu

I thought I would share the menu differently this month. I used iCal this time. I didn't want re-type it all in a Google document which is how I was doing it. To see the menu...just click on the image.

Each weekday shows breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Weekday breakfast and lunches are on a two week rotation. Saturday shows a planned breakfast and dinner. Sunday shows a planned lunch (for after church) and dinner. We don't plan anything for lunch Saturday or breakfast Sunday. As usual this is subject to change without notice!!

You'll have to let me know which menu sharing method you like better.