BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day #02692 Today we celebrated Eva and their graduation from High School. We got food from Chub's Blue Pig BBQ as well as some burgers from Chartley Country Store. I have a ton of them left over and frozen, too. I bought 20, cooked 4 and two were eaten. W weren't sure if people would rather have that than the amazing BBQ of Chubb's. I also picked up a Crowd Pleaser of pretzels from Phill Pretzel Factory and a couple of their sweet dips. Allison made a salad and got a treat platter form BJ's as well as a half sheet cake. We had Eva's aunts Tara and Shelby there along with Uncle Erik and cousin Kylie. Great-aunt Donna came and so did Great-Uncle Richard. Our neighbor Joannie came over and so did Great-Aunt Corrine. Mem and Grandfather came to the party and so did Eva's friends Aviva and Ollie. Eva's theater director, Mrs. Strunin came to visit as well. Andy invited their girlfriend, Jazzy over to meet everyone too.  Before the party a package arrived f...

Photo-A-Day #02691 For the past 12 years Eva has had to follow a dress code and has had to have natural colored hair. Well, they graduated yesterday and today they were finally able to color their hair. Eva went with purple under their natural hair color. Overall it is pretty subtle and looks great on them. Time to live your authentic life, Eva! 

Photo-A-Day #02690 Today was Eva's High School Graduation. It was a wonderful celebration. We started off with the Baccalaureate Mass. That was from about 10:00 - 1:00 or so. Very long celebration but was really nice. Eva got to see many of her teachers afterwards and each one said some wonderful things to her. Her first year chem teacher is actually a woman who was a year ahead of me at Feehan.  After the Mass we went to the Doran Center for Eva's Senior Art show. Eva had some lovely peicves up to show. There was one piece missing and it was dead center of her display. We are not sure what happened to it either. Hopefully it will turn up. After the art show Mem and Grandfather went back to the Blackinton and we headed to SMSH so Eva would do a walk through to visit with her grade school teachers. We went home and I crashed out with a nap. For the graduation we had purchased a bunch of plastic ponchos because there was a chance of rain and we did not want to take the chance of ...

Photo-A-Day #02689 Tonight we went to The Blackinton Inn for dinner with Mem and Grandfather to celebrate Eva's upcoming graduation. I met up with everyone after work at the Pretzel Factory. I was there to work the closing. It was a good night at work.  Earlier in the day Eva had Grandparents day with Mem and Grandfather. They came up last night to stay at The Blackinton so that they were ready for this morning. Eva had a nice time with her grandparents showing them the school and enjoying the activities that the school had set up for them. While they were at their event I went to work (the full time job) to pick up my old laptop. They cleared it and reset it to that I could have it back to use personally. On the way back from there so that I could go to work I went and got my comics and I also stopped by target and while there I found some gifts for Eva for Graduation and I also went to Lowes and got her a tool kit. My dad had done that for Tara when Tara went off to college....

Photo-A-Day #02688 Not since I was 10 years old pushing around Mrs. Godlewsky's electric mower and carrying tons and tons of cord with me have I used an electric based lawn mower. That is, until today. I went to start my gas mower on Monday and it would do nothing so I hauled that and a bunch of other junk from the garage onto the front lawn with a Free sign on it. I ordered myself an EGO electric mower from Lowes and even got a $75 rebate instantly from MassSave. I used the mower on the yard for the first time today and it worked great. The one single charge on the battery allows me to do the whole lawn.

Photo-A-Day #02687 Tonight we had a family movie night and watched Project Hail Mary. It was an excellent movie. Really entertaining. I did manage to fall asleep for a bit of it, though. Wasn't entirely my fault as it was a Monday night after a long weekend of work. Eva had seen the movie already and she was very excited to hear what we had to say. I would say that we all thoroughly enjoyed the movie. I think the next family movie night will be Stand By Me. We'll go back and forth between classics and new movies.

Photo-A-Day #02686 The other day Allison and I were walking int he backyard and noticed that one of the bunnies had made its way into the raised bed. They had dislodged a tomato plant and dug a bit in there, too. So, Allison and Eva put the net over the whole thing to try and keep the bunnies out. We have many more this year than last year and I even saw babies around too.