Summer vacation??

ALMOST!!
two more days for teachers, but the kids are officially done. I am soooooo looking forward to this holiday. It is shaping up to be pretty busy right now, July filling up quickly.

Graduation is over and done with! It went well, always fun to watch the Grand March, and even more fun to watch the look on their faces up on the stage as prize money is read off.
It was weird coming back in March; just in time to jump in to graduation preparations.
Really nice this year to have the kids interested in an alternative Grand March/Prom party. Yes, their was still the usual drunken party, parents condoning the activities of the night (still way beyond my comprehension), but this year a group of parents got together and gave the kids a real fun night, that chose to stay substance free. Kudos to you! Supper, casino night, amazing race-type challenges, dessert buffet and a late night swim in the Village pool...doesn't get much better than that! I snuck out at 2 am to catch some of it, and was thankful to get back in bed by 4am; I can only imagine how exhausted some of those kids were!

Dalton is celebrating, too. Grade 8, here we come! He was really quite worried about it, but thankful to be moving on with his friends, especially with the grade 8 trip to Ottawa every spring.
To top off his week, Dalton received word from the Children's Wish Foundation, his Wish has been granted! We all get to go to Toronto in September for a Toby Keith Concert!! The Foundation also plans a week of activities for the family, so it will be a welcomed vacation for the Browns.
Crying For Me (Wayman's Song) is a great Toby Keith song, he wrote for a friend that died from cancer complications.
Of course, Dalton's favorite has to be Beer for My Horses with Willie Nelson!!!

Off to visit Shawn and Cathy, Steph and Jeremy and their new spouses to be! They are growing up...hard to imagine these were the same kids we took four wheel driving on the back trails, all sharing ice cream from Fundy House. Where does the time go?!