Senior!????!

Here’s hoping his senior year is amazing and normal. I’m super proud of his management and navigation of school, work, sports and friends during this most unusual year. Here’s to our future 2022 graduate! 

Another Year Around a Sun

The initials worries about the weather turned out to be unwarranted. It wasn’t pool weather per se, but we were all just happy to be at the pool and hanging with friends. 

After a relaxing morning at home and a pedicure at the spa at the Omni with Suzie, Marshall hosted a birthday party at the pool complete with balloons and a cake. 

It was a lovely afternoon and kids got in the pool, adults played some tennis, bottles of champagne consumed and snacks devoured. 

Spa time 

The sun came out! And kids braved an unheated pool 

The crew

Cake! 

Thankful for great friends 

Pool season - appreciating the little things which are the big things 

Kid table 

Acreage Outing

Kicking off the birthday weekend in style on Friday night at the Acreage in Lafayette. It was a gorgeous night with amazing friends taking in a beautiful view. 

Thanks for always capturing our moments 

So thankful for this crew 

Love this guy 

Such a view from up here 

Trying to get a sunset pic..... 

Such a cool place 

It’s My Graduation!

T-man has definitely not been impressed with all of the hub-bub related to 8th continuation. He wasn’t excited for the neighborhood celebration. He didn’t want to dress up for the ceremony. But, after we found some clothes he was happy with, he was ok with that part. 

I did run out to get doughnuts before school (with apparently  every other Mom in Louisville). And he was very appreciative and ran a doughnut up to his brother yelling, “it’s my graduation.” I was happy to see him a bit excited about the day. 

We weren’t able to attend the ceremony, but I was happy to see them work to make it special for the kids and also making sure we could watch it virtually. I cried at least twice during the ceremony - just a lot of reflection on what these kids have been through and things they missed - outdoor ed, band trip to Elich’s and then end of the year celebration at Boondocks. But., as one of the speakers said, we learned to appreciate the small things - more time as a family, more skiing than we have ever done in a season, basement nerf battles, room for all of us to work and study and how resilient we all have been. 

The eighth graders got out of school early and T-man walked to a friend’s house to hang out. They had lunch, played around, grabbed ice cream from the Sweet Cow Moo Mobile   and then spent time in the basement here doing video games and nerf battles. It warmed my heart to have him out with his friends. 

We celebrated tonight with sushi and enjoyed it on the back patio. Watch out Monarch High! 

Donuts! 

This is it 

Had to remember the mask 

Favorite teacher 

Home room teacher 

Our dapper dude 

Proud parents watching from home 

Moo mobile in the hood! 

Sushi - love this kid! Congrats on making it through a most unique year. 

Junior Usher

D-man and nine of his classmates were selected by the Senior Senate to serve as Junior ushers at graduation today. Looking good Mr. Peavy! 

8th Grade Celebration

Thanks to amazing friends, we had an 8th grade celebration in the neighborhood park on Saturday afternoon. It was chillier than expected, but we didn’t get rain so I will call it a win. The crew included several neighborhood boys and some additional kids thanks to combining with another elementary school. Even though T-man doesn’t hang with many of these kids now, most of them have known each other for 9 years so there will always be that connection as they tackle high school these next four years. And very nice for the adults to catch up after many of us not seeing each other for awhile. Go Mustangs! 

Playing in the park 

So proud of this young man 

Mohi Senior Parade

I drug D-man up the street to go watch the class of 2021 parade. Two teachers from the K8 were there - D-man’s 4th grade teacher and T-man’s 2nd and 4th grade teacher. They knew so many kids going by  - so fun to hear them recognizing kids they had taught. And, also great to see D-man know so many in the parade and hearing the seniors call out “PEAVY” as they drove by. 

D-man thanked him for making him go - “I knew a lot of people.” I explained that if he was in the parade he would enjoy seeing people he knew. I also talked about how this was one of the reasons we moved here - for the community. He would not be having this experience if we were in our old house - that is for sure. 

The parade staging area as I picked up the mail 

Here they come....



Neighbors 

So fun! 

LAX Weekly Summary

Two lax victories for  Monarch this week. On Wednesday, a nice spring evening for a lacrosse game. And super nice that it was a 7:00 start vs. the 4:00 starts that are common this season. T-man came along and D-man served penalty time for someone else’s foul. There were quite a few fans which was great to see and just seeing the stadium lit up as we drove away was a simple signal of things returning to normal. 

The Friday afternoon game in Lakewood had a 3:30 start which was not easy to get to, but we saw three quarters of play with D-man in for a decent amount of time. And, he actually got called for a penalty this game. A fun way to kick off a busy weekend. 

Ready for play 

Beautiful stadium 

Serving his penalty time 

Fans! 

Lakewood game 

100 Mile Club

Last fall during the school from home portion of the pandemic, the PE teacher at T-man’s school started the 100 mile club. He had to track his activity via an app and turn in the data to his teacher. Then you could see where you stood throughout the year and also check the leaderboard (T-man was guaranteed to “win” 8th grade as he was the only student that participated. He had already been joining me around my walks around the block (albeit on a scooter) so I thought this was a great way to drive us to an end point. 

I forced T-man to join and while he complained about it, he definitely enjoyed it at times. We would figure out different routes in the neighborhood and see how long each route was. We had nice conversations and it was a great break in the day for each of us - sunshine and exercise and company! When we started, T-man was convinced we could get 100 miles in before Christmas. And while technically attainable, we weren’t going to be walking two miles everyday of the week.  It was these types of topics that would fill our walks.. 

While T-man trudged into the last few miles, the time we had was super special to me and something we wouldn’t have had without the pandemic. 

So proud of him 

Walking buddies 

Just Cuz

A couple pics with my handsome hubby. 

Sunset point waiting for D-man’s girlfriend 

Graduation party 

How did this happen??

So proud of this kid and his perseverance and handling middle school during the pandemic. From handling google classroom to online band to no sports or outdoor ed trip to Utah, he’s been a trooper and a fighter. Can’t wait to see how he tackles high school next year! I’m not quite sure how we will have two high schoolers next year!