Summer's almost here

Alex and his friend Jace have been working on a project for weeks. They finally finished and turned it in.

Eric finished up his classes on the 17th. There is always an arts fair at the end of the semester, and one of his ceramic pieces, a coil pot, took 3rd place.

Next up was Glen's Academy Awards on the 17th. They have 3 levels of awards: mini-Glennie for Theatre I, a semi-Glennie for Theatre II, and a Glennie for Theatre III and IV.

Ryan was nominated for a mini-Glennie best actor award (for his role in Charley's Aunt), but lost to Tyler Wood. Glen won 2 semi-Glennies--one for best set and one for best director (both for The Romanian Uranium Mystery).

Cousin Michael won 1 mini-Glennie for best understudy (in Stage Set for Murder) and a Glennie for best actor (for his role as Harry Monday in Three Murders and It's Only Monday).

Cousin Joseph won 2 semi-Glennies: best supporting actor and also best supporting actor (for his role in Up the Down Stair Case and then his role in The Romanian Uranium Mystery).

 Alex got a special certificate for his role in The Princess Bride.

 Ryan could not be at the Awards Ceremony because he spent 2 days at Great America with his AP Physics class. It was math and science day at Great America. One of the activities planned was a cardboard boat race. Ryan came in 3rd.

Then it was Glen's birthday on Saturday.

 Likewise! is a fun game...the object being to match your answers (that you've written on your paddle) with the other players to score. We aren't so good at the matching answers and scoring part, but that was OK.

Alex, Ryan, and Glen

 Sunday we were in the perfect position to observe the solar eclipse. We made some pinhole cards to do our viewing in...then everyone else besides me went next door to use the welding mask as cousins' house. Oh well.

the moon starting to move in between the earth and the sun

Right at the height of the eclipse, the shadow had a complete ring of light around it.

The eclipse cast the coolest shadows

And we finally got Ryan's graduation announcements made (besides just procrastinating, we had lost the picture file and finally got it all worked out).

And, besides being too busy will all sorts of end-of-the-school-year activities, I started my "preparing for summer" routine...I'm trying to get my house organized so that when summer starts, I'll be ready to tackle my projects instead of clean. So far, so good.