Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Summer is here

4/12/17  I went to Tohono Chul Park, Tucson Botanical Gardens and the Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens.

I went to Bach's Cactus Nursery and Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens on 4/15.  Paul and Nathan went to a U of A vs Oregon baseball game.

4/16  Easter!  Nathan got a lot of goodies from the Easter Bunny and we went to church.

4/17 I went to Tohono Chul Park, Tucson Botanical Gardens, Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens and Pima Prickly Park.

Nathan had a field trip to the Reid Park Zoo on 4/20.  He had not been to the zoo in awhile.  He liked the green python snake since he is into snakes right now.  Snakes and sharks!

4/21 I went to Bach's Cactus Nursery, Tohono Chul Park, Tucson Botanical Gardens, Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens and Pima Prickly Park!

4/23 Paul and Nathan went to see Smurfs at the movies.  Back in grade school they used to call me a smurf because I was short.  I guess there are worse things to be made fun of!

I went to the Desert Museum on 4/24.

I went to Bach's Cactus Nursery, Tohono Chul Park, Tucson Botanical Gardens and Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens on 4/25.

4/27 I went to Tohono Chul Park, Tucson Botanical Gardens and Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens.

I went to Tohono Chul Park on 4/28.

4/29 I went to Tohono Chul Park.  Paul and Nathan went to a U of A vs ASU softball game.  It was an expensive day for us.  We got new tires on both my Grand Prix and Paul's Fusion for $1200.  Then our garage door opener broke and it cost us $800 to fix that.

Paul and Nathan went to the Pima County Fair on 4/30.  Nathan got a picture with a snake wrapped around his neck.  The old Nathan would have been scared to do that, but now he likes snakes.

5/2 I went to Tohono Chul Park, Tucson Botanical Gardens and Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens.

5/3 I went to Tohono Chul Park, Tucson Botanical Gardens and Pima Prickly Park.

May the 4th be with you!  Nathan wore his Star Wars shirt for Star Wars Day at school.  Nathan loves Star Wars!  I went to Tohono Chul Park and Tucson Botanical Gardens.  Nathan had his musical performance at school that night.
 
5/5 I went to Tohono Chul Park.

5/6 I went to Tohono Chul Park and DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun.

Paul and Nathan went bowling on 5/7.

5/8 I went to the Desert Museum.

I went to Northwest RV & Storage, Tohono Chul Park and Tucson Botanical Gardens on 5/9.

I went to Tohono Chul Park on 5/10.

5/11 I went to Tohono Chul Park, Tucson Botanical Gardens and the Reid Park Rose Garden.

5/12 I went to Tohono Chul Park and Tucson Botanical Gardens.

Paul and Nathan went to the Titan Missle Museum on 5/13.

Nathan made me some cute stuff at school for Mother's Day on 5/14.  He made me a cute tile that says I Heart You and drew a rainbow, him, me a bluebird and a cardinal.  He said he drew the cardinal for the St Louis Cardinals and purposely did not draw a bear for the Chicago Cubs!  The little snot!  He also made me a cute card.  Handmade gifts from your child are the best!

I went to Arthur Pack Park on 5/15.  I finally got to see a family of ground squirrels with several babies.  It took awhile for me to gain their trust, but my patience paid off and I got some cute pictures.  Nathan lost his two front teeth!  He lost one at school and the other one at night.  It had been about a year since he lost any teeth.  This was #3 & #4.

I went to the Desert Museum on 5/16 & 5/17.

I went to Northwest RV & Storage and back to the Desert Museum on 5/18.  It was the best day to be at the Desert Museum because they had a ton of torch cacti blooming.  They also had two bighhorn sheep lambs and prairie dog pups.

5/19 I went to Tohono Chul Park, DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun and Tucson Botanical Gardens.  Paul got promoted to Senior Director of Finance.  Pam had left to work at corporate in Burlington, MA leaving her position open.  They finally gave the position to Paul!  He had been waiting for a promotion for awhile and considered finding a job outside Aetna.  He is getting a $10k raise and will be in a higher bonus category.  God has taken care of us once again.  Paul has gone through a couple of company buyouts and we had to move to Tucson, but through it all Paul has not lost his job and has been promoted several times.

Nathan had his last day of school on 5/25!  It was Hawaiian Day so he wore his Hawaiian shirt.  He made high honor roll for the 4th quarter!  He was on honor roll the whole year.  He even got an E for exceeding the standard in Art for the 4th quarter.  So he is now an official 2nd grader!

Nathan lost another tooth on 5/26!  He is on a roll now!

Memorial Day was 5/29.  We attended the Memorial Day ceremony at the Veteran's Cemetery in Marana like we did last year.  Later that day, Paul and Nathan went to the water park.

5/30-6/2  Nathan is participating in a Lego summer camp at his school.  It is 9-12 each day.  He did the Lego club in the spring so we thought we would continue the fun.

He starts the FLIGHT program at Casas Christian School on 6/5.  He did this program last summer and liked it so we decided to do it again this summer.  Session 1 he will be Creation Station, Let's Play, Hablas Espanol? and Science Olympics.  He will miss 6/9 because we will be going to Chicago for the weekend to surprise my grandma at her 99th birthday party.  We return from Chicago on 6/12 and Lisa will be coming to visit 6/13-6/22.  Session 1 ends on 6/13 and then we will be headed to Seattle!  We plan to visit Vancouver and Portland, OR while we are up that way.  Our vacation will be 6/13-6/29.  Paul will be traveling to Burlington, MA 7/9-7/12 to meet with some of his new staff.  Here at home Nathan will be starting Session 3 of summer school on 7/10.  His last day of summer school will be 7/21.  We have the Leman Meet & Greet on 7/31 to meet Nathan's new teacher for the 2nd grade and then his first day will be 8/2.  It is going to be a busy summer!