Graduation 09

My lovely niece Michelle graduated from Roseburg High School yesterday. While I was at the luncheon with the ladies, the graduation ceremony was going on, but my sis-in-law was great to keep me posted via text how things were going. I had been to a graduation party on Saturday for my dear sweet girlfriend, her one and only son graduated as well, but they knew it would be good to party the day before.

So here are some pics of our time at the Luiz house.....

My beautiful niece, weird to see her as a graduate!
A picture of her pictures....

The Sister's in law~ We chose the same colors and we hadn't even phoned!

Bugg and Uncle Kenny

Peanut and Hubs~she never lets me take her picture anymore.

Uncle Joey and Kaylee~

I had such a blast with Kaylee!

My Mother in law. She drove up that morning with Joey to be here for the graduation.

Eric~my brother-in-law!! The chef and "father" of the grad.

Hubs gabbing with some friends

In the bucket of drinks, the wine labels were falling off and it was just too fitting to put them on their foreheads :~) I was drinking the soda, I promise!

Bugg showing her height over her grandma :~)

Kaylee didn't like her picture taken either, so I got her eating :~) I am so mean!

My sweet hubs~his eye is starting to really bruise now! Poor guy.

The brothers

Her cake~from Illahee

All the brothers

The girls~the younger two~ were having a blast with Uncle Joey's hair.

here is a grey one.... this one is out of place....

how about this?

He is pointing to his wine glass, he is absolutely bummed that the girls got mousse on his wine glass and that quite possibly he may have some in his wine! OH MY!

They really didn't care, they wanted to fix his hair!!

We had a good time with the family. Eric did a great job with the barbecue-tri tip!

The conversations and laughter were good as well. We headed home to get Bugg home for some last minute finals prep and Hubs and Peanut decided to head back out to the house. I had just put on my pj's so I didn't quite make it, but it was fun for them!

Congratulations Michelle, we are so proud of you!

National Cancer Survivor Day

Momma Willy invited several of us to an event held at Seven Feathers for the National Cancer Survivor's Day. We were Mother's and Daughter's mostly, with a friend along as well.

Audrey and Kimmy
Mom~5 year survivor of Colon Cancer

Momma Willy~9 1/2 year survivor of Lung Cancer

She is singing a quilt that was to be put together and raffled(?) later with all the survivor names and years on each square.

Mother/Daughter

Audrey

Sister's :~) She wouldn't just let me take a picture, so I had to get in one myself!!

More Sister's!!

Momma Gail~14 year survivor of Breast Cancer

Dr. Gosline and her helper

Receiving her Survivorship gift

her turn....

the t-shirt the SURVIVOR'S got

Momma Willy getting hers

The SURVIVOR'S

Aud, Mom, Kim, Gail, Willy, Kel, Me

We had a lot of giggles and a lot of fun. They had the cheetah from Wildlife Safari come. We had a buffet style lunch. They had a DVD on living as a Survivor. I really was impacted by this video. Mostly because I am one of those that likes to celebrate, ie. celebrate the end of treatment and the getting back to living. The video talked about it not really being like this. It is something that you will always have. Not I had cancer, but I am a survivor of cancer and it has affected my life. It affects your health and the way your body responds to everything from here on out. I need to be a little more compassionate to those that have gone through the fight and continue to struggle with the "life after" diagnosis. It is something that I had never thought about.

We were then giggling immensely at the Hostess yelling out to the Survivor's "what size of t-shirt". She had a number of people who were there that she didn't get a "pre-order" from, so she would announce their name, the number of years and then she would yell out, "what size of t-shirt!" A few of these fine ladies I hung out with thought this was so tacky and it was really starting to bother them. They wanted to yell back to her, "what's it to you!!" So, we had some conversations about how we could do it better next year. So, maybe we will all be on the planning commission for the next one. No offense please to anyone who was on this year's planning committee, we all just know how we could do it better :~) Love these ladies and am so grateful I am a part of their "family".

PIE night

Last night, we were invited to celebrate with Joseph Lane Middle School, the accomplishments of the students who attend. Pioneers in Excellence is an evening in which the students are honored for the academia, citizenship and excellence (no tardies, truancy's, redirection, etc.). There were awards for physical fitness as well. Peanut says she "sucks" at stretching and that is why she didn't get an award for that. :~)

Mr. McGlone presenting the 7th grade Red Hall awards
Cailey and Kelly and some of the other students

Peanut picking up her certificate and her pins.

The girls~

Funny Faces :~)

It was a nice evening. The presentations were nicely done. They did serve pie afterward, but there wasn't enough for all the people who attended. So we went to Dairy Queen for ice cream instead! :~)

Hanging out at Barlow High School

Saturday and Sunday Peanut played softball at Barlow High School in Gresham, Oregon. It was a late night getting there on Friday because she had a mandatory meeting with the director of the program for her Costa Rica trip. We did get to see pictures and hear lots of information regarding the trip. We are trying to figure out what to do about the camera situation. They told us that the air is so humid, everything feels wet. So, electronics are not recommended to be brought on this trip. We aren't sure what to do about pictures, so then do we just have Mrs. Miller take all the pics or do we buy an inexpensive camera that if is gets too damp it won't kill us? We just aren't quite sure. So, on to the softball. Peanut was accompanied by Mom and Daddy and Nana, sister didn't come this time. It was a little weird not having our family all together, but that is happening quite a bit more now that Bugg is so independent with her license. We arrived around 10:30 to the motel, got ourselves situated and settled for the night. She needed to be at the field at 8:30, which was great! We had to be at the fields last weekend at 6:45 am!! The motel was roughly 20 minutes from the school. We had a beautiful scenic tour to the school and Peanut was geared up to play. The first game, I didn't take any pictures, because I forgot. :~) Scotty, works at Barlow and he came to visit us at the fields. It was a nice treat to visit with him. We won that game and didn't play again til 3pm so we headed back towards a town and found a BiMart. We bought Peanut some sunglasses to wear while in the field. I got some to go over my glasses and Nana bought some. We also got Peanut a pair of slides to wear so she didn't have to wear her cleats everywhere. We then got some lunch and walked around this cute, but expensive, decorator store. Then, headed back to the school.


Peanut's at bat during the second game. She was trying the slap maneuver, because we were so far ahead of this team and they were having a hard time getting outs, that our coach started having all the girls try this.

Between the 3 and 6:30 games, the girls got in some wrestling time. They were having too much fun!

Peanut getting the "Catcher" with water from her water bottle.

OK, so I got you with the water bottle, now I will give you a shoulder massage, as the 2nd basegirl watches.

This was the late game, the pitcher was the fastest girl out there, as the story goes. Peanut's first at bat, she bunted and had an RBI, her second at bat, I think maybe she struck out, I can't remember, the third she got a nice base hit!!

Heading to first

Running round the bases :~)

Her foul tip on Sunday morning. They have found that Peanut is an excellent bunter and that she usually beats the throw to first. I think of the 4 or 5 bunts she hasn't been thrown out, but once. I could be wrong, but that is what I remember.

This is her final at bat. The girls weren't playing real well and they had got behind. The team we were playing wasn't that fabulous. We could have beaten them if our heads were in the game. The bottom of the last inning our bats started working, a little too late. Peanut had struck out at her last at bat and then she got up for this one. I was so anxious, I ended up hiding behind hubs. I heard her hit the ball and about climbed over his shoulders to get around the dugout to see where it went!!

Nicely hit ball up the third base line, a double!! Nicely done. Scored two, but the next batter got out and we were headed home. It was a nice weekend and we had some fun times with the kids and their parents. Looking forward to a break this weekend, then off to another tournament.