Week in Photos: Pre-K Graduation, Father's Day, Grandma Marcia's Visit and the 4th of July

A long post of photo catch up!

Greg and I enjoying our very last Parent's Night Out Friday at Ben's school.  We went and got dinner and wine at our of our favorite spots: Village Wines in Woodinville:

We went to the Washington Brewer's Fest the day before Father's Day and enjoyed drinking beer all morning and early afternoon with Dan and Jeannette :)

Lunch at the food trucks.  I waiting in the longest line for Nosh, which claimed to have "award winning fish and chips" and it was 100% worth it.

Meanwhile at home with Grandma, Ben was coming down with something :(

He said his throat hurt and he definitely was not himself for a few days.  After a couple, it dawned on me to look at his throat and sure enough - it was so red!

Random picture of me with Ben (asleep at 5:30 in the back seat, waiting for Greg and Marcia while they were at the grocery store).

Ben had his adorable Pre-K graduation ceremony on June 22nd.  This was also his very last day at A Journey School where he has been going since he was 3 years old!  Definitely bittersweet to be leaving.  He has grown and changed so much and has really gained so much confidence and independence there!

With his teacher, Miss Jamie:

Ben's T-ball picture!

We went out to celebrate my friend Layne and Clint's engagement down in South Lake Union.  We started the evening by grabbing a (few) drinks at Sam's Tavern with Rachel and Peter:

Then headed around the corner to Ballard Pizza Kitchen (SO GOOD) for the party (plus several more drinks and ouch I'm in pain just thinking about the hangover I had the next day).  #worthit

The hangover day was also the hottest day of the year, so I sweat out my pain doing yard work and playing water balloons with Greg, Marcia and Ben :)

Just a few other random pictures:

Enjoying dinner and drinks on the patio at McMenamins:

A stop at Home Depot for mulch, rocks and an impulse purchase: flowers:

Our YMCA hosts rock climbing for free periodically throughout the week all summer long.  Ben wanted to give it another try.  He loved it and got further up on the wall than he did the last time.  We agreed we would aim to go at least once a week and that by the end of summer, he just might make it to the top!  Kind of a fun way to teach him how practice can really help you improve!

Later that afternoon while washing the cars, we heard the Popsicle man's music coming through the neighborhood.  In previous years, we had told Ben that it was the "music truck" and received no further questions about it.  This year, we volunteered the real information and let him know that truck has popsicles and ice-cream and he was THRILLED. The bonus was that we met a neighbor kid and his mom (as in, just around the corner) who will be starting Kindergarten at Ben's school in the Fall!  Our neighborhood has very few kids (that we are aware of), so the prospect of having a kid that close that he can play with is really exciting.

Enjoying some wine in our freshly weeded front yard and watching the boys play baseball.

Ben agreed to do join us for some wine tasting :)

On the 4th of July, we went down to Tacoma (as we did 2 years ago) to join Callie, Mira, Maylee and Phil at his parents' house on America Lake.  It was a great day!!!