Wow, this year flew by fast.
11/2, I went to the Reid Park Rose Garden, Reid Park and to Pima County Cooperative Extension Gardens.
11/4, My First Light bloomed.
11/5, My First Light and June Noon bloomed. Nathan and I went to Wildlife World Zoo while Paul went to a NASCAR race.
11/6 My June Noon bloomed.
11/13, I went to Reid Park Zoo.
11/16, I went to the Desert Museum to see the Raptor Free Flight show and drove through Saguaro National Park.
12/1, My grandma passed away. She was 105. I went to Catalina State Park that day. On the way home, there was a full rainbow, a sign from my grandma in heaven.
We left for Chicago on 12/6 to attend my grandma's funeral the next day on 12/7. The funeral was at Faith Baptist led by Brother Bill. There was a good turnout, including Michelle, Dave and Katie from Mount Vernon. Paul was a pallbearer. The lunch was a Papa Joe's in Orland Park. The next day we met Michelle, Dave, Katie and my parents at Olive Garden in Orland Park for lunch. Paul had to work back at the hotel room. My mom bought Nathan a pug birthday cake so we had a little impromptu birthday party for him. We met John and Lisa, my parents and Michelle, Dave and Katie at Ledo's for lunch on 12/9 before our flight back to Phoenix.
12/14, I went to Green Things Nursery to photograph the poinsettias and to Tucson Botanical Gardens.
Nathan turned 14 on 12/15. It was also his last half day of school before the winter break. He chose to go to Vivace for dinner to have...steak! I got Nathan a ping pong paddle, a Free Guy shirt, a Saving Private Ryan dvd and some candy. Paul had bought him Sluban Army apache bricks at the Pima Air & Space Museum when they went to the paper airplane contest. Nathan also picked out a small cookies & cream cake at Walmart. Nathan also got his Q2 report card. He got straight As (Geometry 91, English 90, Literature 93, Science 90, Social Studies 91, Coding 99 and PE 97). He had to take his final exams early since he missed 3 days of school to go to GG's funeral. However, he did great on them. He got a 90 on Geometry, 90 on English, 95 on Literature, 87 on Science, 87 on Social Studies, 100 on Coding and 100 on PE. For the First Semester final grades he got a 92 in Geometry, 92 in English, 94 in Literature, 87 in Science, 90 in Social Studies, 99 in Coding and 97 in PE.
Paul took Nathan to Funtasticks and Olive Garden on 12/16.
