Last Day of Elementary School on to 6th and 8th Grades

Today was our last day going to the elementary school.

We drove to school today.  Noah went to his classroom and we went to the cafeteria to get seats for graduation.  Grandma and Papa were already there when we got there.

The graduation started at 8am with the 5th-grade kids walking the hallways.  Then, they came into the cafeteria.

They had each kid come up, one by one.  They said their names, where they want to go to go college, and what they want to study.  Noah said he wants to go to Carnegie Mellon and study Fine Arts.

After graduation, they had cookies and juice reception for everyone.

Then, the kids got ready for their pool party at the pool next door to the school.

We went home after the reception.

I had to go into my school for a little bit to take care of a few things and enter final grades into the system.

We did our last walk to school this afternoon and brought Chewie with us.  Chewie got a lot of attention, so he was happy.

For dinner, we went to Kura, the revolving sushi place to celebrate Noah's graduation.

Then, we went to Aaron and Mandy's house for Mandy's graduation (MBA) party.

It was a long fun day and now we have 6th and 8th graders!

Here are some pictures from today.

New Collar

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

Evan was supposed to have a baseball tournament today but with the rain and the very cold temperatures, they pushed the tournament from a two-day to a Sunday-only.  He'll play tomorrow morning.

That allowed Rachel and I to sleep in which was nice.

When we got up, we called in bagels at Wholy Bagel.  We drove to pick them up with Chewie in the car.  Then we drove to Petco and got him a new collar.  Chewie had a very good time at Petco.  He made sure everyone in the store knew he was there and tried to say hello to everyone.

We came home and had our bagels for lunch.

Then we did some cleaning.  Evan is trying to earn money for a Pirates shirt when we get to spring training so he folded laundry, he cleaned the cats' litter boxes, and he dealt with all the recycling.

Noah, Evan and I sat and watched the original Terminator movie in the afternoon.  I made popcorn for us.

For dinner, we went with Grandma and Papa to the revolving sushi restaurant, Kura.  Everyone seemed to have a good time.  After dinner, Rachel, Grandma and Papa went to a bookstore next door and I took the boys to get a shaved milk/cream place called Snowy Village.

The boys are getting ready for bed now.

Until next time...

First Post in 2019

Hello everyone, this is Morry.

This is the first post of the New Year and the 12th year we've written a blog post.

On New Year's Eve, we took it easy during the day.  Rachel and I took Chewie and Luna for a long walk.  At night, the Edwards family came over.  Josh plays baseball with Evan and has across two teams since 2013. We went to Kura Revolving Sushi Bar.  I had been before and Rachel had taken Noah once.  The sushi plates come around on a revolving belt and you can order food that's delivered to you on a different belt.  It worked out well.  From there we went back to our house where we had dessert that Rachel made and watched the ball drop.

On New Year's Day, we went to Aunt Sandy and Uncle Marvin's house.  We brought the dessert and had a late lunch there.  It was a good time.

Today, I had to go into HomeAway. It was my first day back.  It was a long day as there was an afternoon meeting.

Rachel, Evan and Noah went with Grandma, Papa and Uncle Mike to Kerbey Lane.  Uncle Mike was in for a wedding.  Then they went back to Grandma and Papa's and sat around and had hot drinks and sat around and talked.  Noah had hot apple cider while Evan had hot chocolate with whipped cream.

For dinner, I made blackened chicken.

The boys are upstairs playing.

Until next time...

Quick Trip + Sushi

Yesterday Morry and Evan went to Mansfield, outside of Dallas for a baseball tournament.

Last night, since it was just Noah and me, I asked Noah what he wanted for dinner.  He said he wanted sushi, so we tried a revolving sushi restaurant.  We had a nice time.  Look below for the video.  After dinner, we went to the bookstore next door.  It was a Japanese bookstore that had gifts and books with an Asian theme, but also American and English products as well.

This morning Noah had an 8am football game and had to be there at 7:30.  He and his team played well. They won 28-6.

There had been a lot of rain in the Dallas area and this morning, they canceled the baseball tournament.

Morry and Evan ate breakfast with the team and then drove back to Austin.  2 other boys rode in the car with them and came back to our house.  Then, 2 more boys were dropped off here as well.

The last kid was picked up a little after 7pm.

We ate dinner at Panera.

Now the boys are playing some video games.