CCSD Photo Release

I got word today that Clark County School District did a photo release of the images from Basic High School graduation – and of course, my lil’man was pictured! I quickly emailed the representative to get copies of them. I only asked for the three I saw but she was kind enough to send me others that had my baby pictured!

Left image: With Trustee, Deanna Wright - Right Image: With Mrs. Tilley

With BHS Principal David Bechtel

Some fun ones!

Thank you CCSD for the pictures!

Brandy

Goodbye Silver

Today Ethen has experienced his first loss. His pet goldfish, that he won at the Fundraiser Carnival, has died today. He was so sad! To be honest – I’m surprised that it lived this long!

We held a brief memorial service for Silver in which Ethen gave a moving eulogy!

The final resting place of Silver. Headstone and all. Nice touch with the leaves buddy!

It was kind of weird explaining this to Ethen. He seemed to accept it quite well though. Poor little man!

Brandy

It’s Hot!!!

Summer has officially arrived. It was 111 degrees today! HOT HOT HOT HOT HOT!!! We had our friend, Amari, over today and the boys wanted to cool off.

Jonathon took the boys to see the movie Epic, while Jason and I went to get a small pool to cool off in! Needless to say – the boys were excited to see the pool when they got home from the movie!

They had a blast! Now Ethen can go out anytime to cool off – especially on days we don’t make it to a pool!

Here’s to a hot summer!

Brandy

Basic High School Graduation

Congratulations Class of 2013!

Today Ethen, along with Aspen and Kassidy, were invited to speak at the commencement ceremony for Basic High School. It was an honor and a privilege to be invited to this event.

For the past several weeks we have been working on memorizing his “speech”. He was excited up until the moment he put the cap and gown on – then the nerves sank in! Thankfully Uncle Jason was there and told him a trick. He said – if you get too nervous just wave at everyone and they will wave back! BRILLIANT!

I have to admit, that when Ethen and the kids walked in wearing these cute cap and gowns, I smiled when the whole senior class did an “AWWWWEEEE” in unison! They looked SO cute!

Of course they said Ethen’s name wrong – something that he’ll have to get used to. But that’s ok! Speece is such a difficult name!!! It was so cute when they came up to the podium to speak – even WITH a step stool the podium was still taller than they were, so you could ONLY see the top of their caps! A resounding “AWWWWEEEE”, once again echoed through the arena! They were adorable!!!

These kids are awesome!!!

In case you couldn’t understand them, because you are distracted by how cute they are, they said:

Congratulations to the class of 2013. Robert Taylor students are going to follow in your footsteps. And Sue Morrow students are going to follow in your footsteps too. So make wise decisions. And be a good role model (Ethen’s only solo line). Good luck in the future!

I had to put this here. The American flag was presented by BHS’s own Marine Corps JROTC ALL GIRL, National Champion Color Guard team! OOHRAH!

After the ceremony the kids got a “job well done” surprise – a $20 gift card to Toys-R-Us!!! Sweet!!!

This was such a great experience. Ethen did AMAZING! I’m so proud of him! To think that in just 12 years, Ethen will be the one graduating – in 2025!!!

Brandy

Water Balloon Volleyball

***Notice: Tons of picture***

In the spirit of celebration we decided to have our YM/YW combined activity tonight – being the last day of school we wanted to have a fun time before everyone went off for their summer activities! K’Leigh (our Laurel president) came up with the idea to play water balloon volleyball. Basically teams of two hold towels in which they lob water balloons over the net and try to catch them without them breaking. It was a LOT of fun!

In preparation for this activity we needed some water balloons. So Ethen and I (mostly me) filled some balloons. I even made some water bombs (the normal size balloons filled with water – oh yeah)!!! Of course we had to test some out!!!

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And the youth had a blast! Some were a little more, shall we say, enthusiastic than others!

Of course we saved some balloons to have an ACTUAL water balloon fight! As you can see, Sister Crum is sitting ON the ice chest that is holding the water balloons. In the next image, you see her sitting on the ground. She was SHOVED off of the ice chest!!! They were RUTHLESS!

After cleaning up all of the tiny balloon pieces the kids were off to play on the splash pad and have fun with a game of capture the flag (or towel in this game)!

It was a great activity! Congratulations guys for making it through another year of school. Enjoy the summer!

Brandy