the month of may brought all kinds of good stuff. let’s get into it:
the little miss is just growing so fast. with the old lady back to work and the old man off at school in the mornings, i get to spend a few hours with her and i love it. i had bought the fisher-price baby spa set (i know, i know) for her and we got into a routine of doing a “facial” every morning. i mean…look how cute this set is!
i somehow won a couple of seats at a semi-private laufey concert at the americana in glendale. admittedly, i wasn’t really familiar with her music - but i fixed that pretty fast once i found out i was going to this show, heh. i knew my friend lilcee was a big fan, so she was the first call i made to see if she was available since i only had like a day’s notice. thankfully, she was able to shuffle some stuff around and off we went to glendale on a saturday afternoon.
the hub and i enjoyed a day date out to pioneertown, which has turned into one of our favorite places to visit. it’s a fun drive to get there, and we like to hit up either pappy & harriet’s or the red dog for drinks and grub.
there’s a cute little petting zoo, which we didn’t actually visit but caught a glimpse of through the fence.
mayor tiny chef wasn’t home that weekend, but i stopped at his little house anyway.
the bean’s official last day of school. how did we get here so fast??
here’s something crazy: with some help from a friend, we’d managed to score VIP soundcheck seats for BTS’ comeback tour…in vegas. awesome, right? but here’s the kicker: i managed to screw up and realized too late that the show was on the night before the bean was to report to campus at 8am for their senior trip to yosemite. GAH.
and so what did we do? well, we convinced the hub to make the drive with us, drop us off at the venue, kill time while we were at soundcheck and the concert itself, and then pick us up and drive right back home that very same night. the plan was for the bean to get packed for the trip before we left, then sleep all the way home and head to school the next morning. absolute insanity.
but was it worth it? hell yeah!
we hadn’t had time to grab any merch before the show, but as luck would have it, this line outside the venue wasn’t too bad. we each snagged a t-shirt and then we headed off to meet up with the hub for the drive home.
oh, and this is the swag bag we got with our VIP tickets. i gotta say, that little fan is pretty awesome. it’s my most favorite piece of concert swag.
and yes - the bean made it to school on time the next morning.
once they got home from the trip, it was a whirlwind of activity all the way through to the following weekend. the old lady and the little miss and i managed to get them away for a fun KBBQ dinner first:
amazon helped me provide a little last-minute embarrassment.
one last awards ceremony.
and one final parent volunteer appreciation party.
senior candlelight ceremony. i was bummed that this was a students-only/no parents event, but tradition is tradition and i suppose that’s just how things go when you’re a day student at a boarding school.
and then…it was graduation day. it’s still so surreal. and we were so happy that we were able to share it with so many family members and friends. such a beautiful day.
i’d been saving something really special for the bean for the last thirteen years - a copy of dr. seuss’ oh, the places you’ll go that i secretly took to all of their teachers to sign. there were messages from almost every teacher from preschool all the way through senior year of high school in that book, and i’d managed to keep it a secret from the bean for all those years. it was fun to watch them open it and read all of the sweet, encouraging words from everyone.
and it was a big weekend for the old man as well, whose graduation from lineman school happened the very next day. his final day of hands-on education was on the day of the bean’s graduation, which is why you don’t see him in the photos. we made the drive up to bakersfield so that we could watch him and the rest of his class do some demonstrations, and then gathered at a local church for the graduation ceremony.
told ya it was a big month! we’re so proud of both of them. and now…on to the next chapter!
