The End and the Beginning

This week I attended a graduation ceremony.  It happened to be for Buttermilk Sky--yeah, another one of those graduating from elementary school graduations.  I wasn't ready with my camera and almost missed Buttermilk walk across the stage.  He's the one with the bright green circle around him.

I think Buttermilk is very ready to move on to bigger and better things.

The boys had excellent teachers this year, as always.

So after a week of nothing but parties and games, school finally came to an end.  And now...summer vacation begins!

Ring of Fire

Did any of you see the solar eclipse last week?

There was an astronomy festival held at BYU over the weekend and they were giving out eclipse glasses so we went and picked some up so that we could watch the eclipse.

These are some sweet solar shades as modeled by these funky dudes.

The shades worked great and it was really cool to see the sun covered by the moon.  We began watching around 6:30 pm and could see a small bite out the sun.  Then after about an hour, the moon covered most of the sun--80% coverage was what I read that it was for our area, but it looked more like 90%, to me.  We didn't see the full "ring of fire" but it was pretty close.  Some thin clouds were covering the sky at the end, but we could still see the eclipse through them.

It was an amazing sight!

Jumpin' Junior

Junior recently had a birthday.

Lucky boy, he got a present.

I love the boys' expressions in the next three pictures.

This year we had a party with just our family for Junior, and he chose to go to a place called "Lowe's Extreme Air Sports".  As you can see from the following photos, the name is befitting.

Jumpin' Jeeeehosaphat--uh, I mean Junior!  What a great birthday!

Tank Cake

Eggs on Toast refined his cake-making skills for his Blue and Gold Banquet.

Eggs was pretty proud of it, and it was a hit with the banquet-goers.

Coming Soon...to an Internet Near You

EXCLUSIVE
Trailer for The Adventures of Anderon, produced, written, directed, filmed, and acted by Onion Ring, Buttermilk Sky, etc.

 

To be shown on the Interwebs this fall.

One-ty-Two Years

Brand new...

one year...

two years...

three...

four...

five...

six...

seven...

eight...

nine...

ten...

eleven...

eleven and three quarters...

twelve!!!

Yep, just a little over two months ago, Buttermilk Sky turned twelve!

By the way, the thing in front of Buttermilk Sky, in the above picture, is his cake and he is about to blow out the candles.  In case you can't tell.

Here is a better view of the cake.  It is one of the towers in the Lord of the Rings--Isengard, if you want to get technical.  (Yes, made by me.  If the Silly Grandma had made it, it would have looked much better!)

Buttermilk Sky had a Lord of the Rings party which involved Lord of the Rings type stuff such as sword fighting, trying to get through giant spider webs...

...eating cake and ice cream...

...and opening presents.  What?  You don't remember the cake and ice cream and presents in Lord of the Rings?  Well, I guess you'll just have to watch it again.

Happy one-ty-second birthday, Buttermilk!