Movie matinee

This afternoon we all (except Larry) went to see Wall.e (the new Pixar movie) with our friends Jim and Jake. I was afraid that the theater would be packed, with the good buzz the movie has gotten, and very iffy weather, but it really wasn't. We all enjoyed it and I liked the very unsubtle message about not being slugs and cleaning up after ourselves (though this message may have gone over the kids' heads). This is only Alana's 2nd theater movie.

Berry picking

After the movie, Jake and Caleb played Indiana Jones on the Wii, and Alana and I took Roxy to the park while there was a break in the rain. We saw many of these bushes covered with red berries and Alana picked handfulls of them.

Matt is a HS graduate!

Matt's graduation on Friday went great. As a bonus, the city had fireworks downtown near where the graduation was held (completely unrelated but serendipitous), so we had a delicious and quick dinner at AppeTHAIzing near Marshall St and then went to see the fireworks off Hiawatha Blvd.

Then tonight we went out with our friends Jim and Linda and their son Jake to a very tasty Italian steakhouse called Delmonico's. Matt's grandmother, Susan (far right in photo), was with us all weekend, but Matt's mom didn't come.

Campfire

We went to the park this evening and just to kill time built a little fake campfire. We actually built it twice because the first time Roxy came over and knocked it down (not on purpose, just being a spaz), which gave us the giggles for a long time. Caleb wanted to actually burn it once we built it, but besides being totally illegal, I doubt it would burn as the wood is moist from recent rain and we used freshly mown grass for our kindling!

Another gorgeous sunset at the park

This photo does not do it justice - the colors were wonderful.

Bus award

We had a bit of trouble on the bus the first term, so I was glad to see that Caleb got this.

Family in the news

Caleb's school was on the local news last night. The school holds a reading challenge every year. This year the challenge was 1 million minutes, but they got to TWO million. The principal and teachers ran an obstacle course, and the loser (the principal, by design) got slimed by buckets of green ooze a la Nickelodeon TV. The local news (Channel 9 - NBC affiliate) put the story in their Picture of the Day segment.

Then tonight, Larry was on the news in Watertown because TRH sponsored the muscular dystrophy fundraiser, which raised $30,000!