Grandparent's Day 2014

Boy! I'm a bit behind on my blogging. We've been to D.C. and back and we have a birthday to celebrate this weekend. I have three posts sitting as drafts that I'll post when I get a chance. Here is the first of those. Before we went to see the east coast grandkids we celebrated with our local ones on Grandparents' Day.

Free is a very good price ;0)

Dinner with Wyatt, Genevieve, Danika and Garrett at Elmer's.

Dinner for the six of us was right around $20. That was a great promotion that Elmer's did. Thanks!

We stopped for six in a selfie on the way outside :0)

Dessert at Krispy Kreme

They were fascinated by the conveyor belt and the frying and frosting of the doughnuts. Danika excitedly called me over to see the "incubator" at the front of the whole assembly line where the doughnuts were raising.

What a great group of grandkids we have!

Grandparents' Day is every day that we get to spend with ours.

Hayden and my big night out

Cashing in on a birthday present

Hayden received tickets to a concert for his birthday. They were for an artist that the two of us enjoy and had gone to a concert of hers at the zoo years ago. So I was hoping that he would agree to take me with him to see her this time.

First we had dinner

The sign on the right is hanging on the wall of another restaurant near our place but it seems appropriate for Hayden's and my evening down town too.  We went to the Japanese restaurant that Cam introduced us to on his birthday.

I don't know what was going on down in Pioneer Courthouse Square that evening but I felt like a tourist. We really should go downtown more often. There is so much to see!

According to the tickets we were allowed to enter the concert hall an hour before the concert but they made us wait an additional 15 minutes.

No problem :0) There was plenty to do and lots of things to take pictures of as we waited.

This was my first time in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. What a beautiful place! 

Brandi put on a tremendous show as always! She just continues to get better as the years go by. 

The best part about it was spending time with Hayden doing something that he enjoyed as well.

Back to school time - junior year for our guy

Cam went out for cross-country

Our Cameron was on the track and field team last spring at Grant High School. He was not on any of the running squads but threw discus, shot-put, and javelin. Sometime during that season he decided that he was going to join the cross-country team. They started training three times a week right after school got out. He's been running all summer and had his first official meet in the end of August. He's competed in one other and had to sit out one because of an ankle issue. But  he's back up to speed and should be running with his team and showing that GRANT GRIT for their home meet this week.

He's got a great coach and staff to work with. He seems to really enjoy the camaraderie and the challenge of being a runner.

Henry-boy was all set!

These days every school student is encouraged to bring supplies to share with the classroom for the entire year. This was right up Henry's alley. He's quite the planner ;0)
He wrote down the first day of school on his own calendar. But he found out that the Kindergarteners didn't start until after Labor Day. He took that news pretty well and enjoyed the long weekend with his family.
Getting spruced up for school

Genevieve needed a trimming on her hair before school started. A week before I took the girls to Great Clips to get that done.
G'vieve loves the spa treatment of getting her hair shampooed and styled. It's quite the treat. These two have even set up a salon in their yard and do shampoos and mani-pedis for their little friends in the neighborhood.

Har and I stopped over there on the evening of Labor Day. I took a pic of Wyatt after he changed the calendar to September. He and Genevieve and Danika all take the bus to school and back.

I like that they have a bunch of kids in their cul-de-sac to be busing with. I can hardly believe that they are in fifth, third and second grades this year.

FIRST DAY PHOTOS!

Cherise sent me these pictures of Henry at his school and in his classroom on the first day of Kindergarten.

 Alyssa text messaged a picture of Rowan on his first day of first grade.

And this one of all of the kids on Kate's first day of preschool for this year.

 Cam @ Grant High School 

He told me as he got out of the truck,"You don't have to take a picture!" 

Oh, Cameron! Yes I do.

Milestones like these are photo worthy. 

Blessings on your junior year, my boy.

"Love you... have a good day!"