Time for a bit of Pomp and Circumstance

This month will see two of our nephews graduate:

First up, Nicholas (son of proud parents Cathy and Dan), who graduated 8th Grade on Monday (St. Alphonsus, Seattle) with many, MANY honors.  No surprise to discover that he won a drama award (I'm sure he was pretty delighted to get to keep his Harold Hill hat!) but he also received awards for: reading the most pages in 7/8 grade (53,082), the President's Award for Education Excellence, Outstanding Graduate, made the Honor Roll and was named Salutatorian for his class!  Next fall will see Nicholas transitioning to Ballard High in Seattle.  We're hoping that he will somehow find his way to the drama department there!

On Thursday we will attend the High School graduation (Issaquah High) Reed (son of equally proud parents Pete and Marne) at Safeco Field.  I'm not really sure why tickets are required for this event as the capacity of the venue is 45,000+ (though I'm sure attendance will exceed the typical Mariners game these days, I doubt we will be anywhere close to capacity!) but his parents assure us that they've got our tickets for us.  After participating in JROTC it should also come as no surprise to anyone that Reed is bound for the Marines after graduation and headed to California this summer.

Congrats to both of these fine young men!  We are very proud of you - good luck next year!

~later, tw