Prom 2022

The festivities started about mid-morning with most of the girls showing up at the Compound to start prepping for the day. By 3:30pm or so we were on our way to the Garden of the Gods for photos. All the other parents met us there for photos, too! Then back to our house for pre-prom dinner and off to the Prom (at a Larkspur event center). I understand a few were back at the house around midnight to continue the fun. Prom wasn't the only big event of the day. AJ had an audition AND callbacks for Matilda by Elevate Productions. We'll see about that one... All the Prom photos are here.

Games Galore

Baseball game. Game night with Denise and Barry. Lots of game playing going on... Including a lunch "game" at Bonefish where we caught up with our favorite hostess from CB Potts.

Safe!

Smoked Old Fashioned at Bonefish

Carrot Lava Cake at Bonesfish

Game night with Denise and Barry.
Had an Alexander Crown, too.
Not sure about the Wolff bubbly.
Tonight's card game: Five Crowns

Easter

Fun day at church and at home. All the photos are here.

Easter Prepping

Mostly cookie baking and baseball. The Blue Bombers won their second game! Sam and a couple friends are in town for the weekend, too. The three of them are hitting the sites nearby.

Passover Seder

Had a great Passover Seder tonight! This was our first full-blown Seder that went 3 hours - without doing all the parts. A Seder is a big deal. The best part was that the kids enjoyed it as much as the adults. Some more info is here.

Matt holds a redeemed afikoman

As Hilda Prager quipped, "Only the men
got out of Egypt."

Matt cooked brisket and burnt ends

Getting ready (not everything is in place yet).

Seder Prep

We moved into serious prepping for tomorrow night's Passover Seder... Yes, we know the actual dates are this Friday and Saturday, but tomorrow is when we could all gather. Click here for some miscellaneous info about the Passover Seder that Jamie developed for the church small group that he and Lynn lead.

For the Charoset...

Charoset...

Chocolate Lava Cake for dessert.

A rare look at just getting started,
which means looking for edge pieces.

Nana and Papa took a break for lunch at Padrino's.

Just a fraction of the groceries...

Nana told a good story...

The Seder Table is taking shape...

Spamalot Closes, Party at the Compound

Spamalot had a great run the last four days, culminating in a party at our house this Saturday night. Tracy got a very nice acknowledgment from Ms. Keating on stage at the close of tonight's show for heading up all the rehearsal meals and the snack table at the shows. A few Spamalot photos are here. Some other things happened in the meantime, see below...

The foster twins now ride the bus to preschool!

Ollie the Otter visited Lexi's Dad's workspace.

First game of the season. AJ and Griffen are on the same team.

Nana and Papa enjoyed The Secret Garden at
First Company Theatre

A common scene in the theater room.

Practice run for our Passover Seder's
Potato Kugel Cups

Egg spinning decorating machine.
Big hit with all the kids...

Spamalot cast party: DIY Holy Grails

Sign a farewell photo for each Senior.