Mother's Tea and Dad's & Grad's BBQ

May 11th was Mother's Tea at the High School for all the Seniors.

Patty and Nicole Cruse, with Marcus and I. A long time ago, when Patty and I were seniors at MVHS we were really good friends. Who would have known that 25 years later our children would be good friends too!

May 21st was the Dad's and Grads BBQ at the High School. Marcus said it was really good; it was outside and the weather was fantastic!

Nicole's Coach-pitch baseball

You put a blue helmet on her and you couldn't tell the difference between her and Marcus. She runs just like he did.

Coming home.

Concert at Stafholt--May 2nd

As part of graduating all Seniors have to do a Culminating Project. With some help from some good friends, Marcus put on a little concert at his Great-Grandma Eagan's care center. It was all kept under wraps to be a surprise for her.

Having spent so much time practicing for their San Francisco trip, the kids didn't have a lot (any) practice time together. So here they are crunching in an hour of practice before leaving for Blaine.

Great-Grandma was very surprised, and everyone loved the concert.

Marcus' Great-Grandma

Austin, Kristin, Allisha, Marcus

Junior/Senior Prom

Marcus and Allisha

Michael and Shelby

Nick and Lindsey (Allisha's sister)

All three lovely ladies.

What very handsome guys!

The whole group.

Heading out.

Off they go. What fun!

Hunter Ronin

Today Nicole and I went down to see the new baby. Hunter Ronin Vellat was born on Monday, April 20th. He weighed 7lbs, 1 oz, and was 20" long.

Hunter and his proud Mommy.

Look at all that hair! He so cute!

Good job, June and Anthony, he's a keeper.

The baby shower that didn't happen

My very dear friend, June is having her first baby at age 44. What a wonderful occasion, and we are SO excited!! Of course I had to throw her a baby shower. The shower was to be held at her house on Sunday, April 19th. But, that's not exactly what happened.....

The cake was decorated by a very talented lady in Mount Vernon. Her cakes are so good!

The diaper cake I made for June. It's made of 60+ diapers, and "iced" with receiving blankets. All the decorations on the cake are useable for the baby.

Instead of guests arriving at the party, June was at the hospital waiting to have a baby!

Sure, she's all smiles now, but 13 hours later she was one tired mommy. Hunter Ronin was born at 4:30am via c-section. Pictures to follow, as I haven't seen him yet.

Marcus' choir trip to San Francisco

April 16-19th Marcus and 40 other choir members went to San Francisco for a Music Festival Competition. Bruno dropped off 7 very excited kids at SeaTac at 5:30 in the morning.

Waiting for their tour bus in SFO.

Ms. Lizama is probably wondering what's she's gotten herself into.

Nice ride.

Ms. Lizama giving "the lecture".

First stop after the airport was Fisherman's Wharf. They had lunch, then boarded a boat for a trip around the bay. Allisha, with Alcatraz in the background.

After their boat cruise they took a bus tour of the city, and stopped at the infamous "crookedest street in the world", Lombard Street.

The following day, after touring the campus where the competition was being held, they went over to Golden Gate Park and played around for awhile. Then walked across the bridge.

Marcus asked Allisha to Senior Prom on the Golden Gate Bridge.

Marcus with his buddies, Austin and Karl.

The third day was the competition. They won 4 trophies, and 3 plaques. They received 1st place in all the categories they entered. After the competition they went to Great America theme park for some much deserved fun.