School's Out for Summer

I hope Lex won't mind me sharing some of her last-day-of-school pictures. She got together with her best buddies and had a great time celebrating... the good old-fashioned way. Hanging out. Being silly. Having fun.

Okay, this is in the middle of the street.  She swore to me no cars were in sight.  That's good.

Can you just see them mocking that school crossing sign??

Water fight on the trampoline...

Lexee does not hug her parents like that.

Is that green grass?  Finally!

A flyer's point of view.

The end of her sophomore year.  I keep telling her that she still has a lot of school ahead of her.  But I won't spoil her fun with that reminder right now.

Shilo had to stay after school with NJHS to help the middle school teachers clean and pack up their supplies (they're moving out of the high school and into the new middle school building).  When I went to pick her up, I brought her these:

a little reward to celebrate the completion of middle school 
(I know, anti-climactic... that's happened a lot around here lately).

She was excited to be finished with school, excited for the treat, and excited to be heading off camping with her friend later that day.  And she brought home this:

I love how certificates (and pictures too, for that matter) always come home wrinkled. It's the hard work behind the certificate that counts, right?  Good job, Shilo!

So last night we celebrated Britt being home, the last day of school for Lex and Shi, and Mauri's second (count them, two) 100% spelling test by going out for dinner.

Shilo will be sad to know she missed the celebration (camping, remember?), but not sad when she hears about the "incident" at the restaurant.  When we were over halfway finished with our meal, a neighboring table noticed a live cockroach (yes, you read correctly... a live cockroach) crawling around underneath their plate of nearly finished nachos.  I had the perfect seat to witness the entire episode...  when they noticed it, when they grabbed the nearest waitress, when she grabbed a napkin and grabbed the cockroach then walked it to the back (where the food comes from???), when the manager came over to apologize and offer their dinner for free... I saw it all.  I wondered if we could get our dinner free too, since I really think we were the only other table in the place that knew anything had gone on at all.  We chose to try not to think about it, finish our meal, pay our bill and quietly leave.  I don't think we'll go back.  Ever.

It can't spoil the fact that summer (for Lex and Shi) is here.  At last.