Graduation

We celebrated Hannah's graduation from College of Ag & Life Sciences this May with lunch at Feast and a Memorial Day party at home.
Pressing question...which side does the tassel go on? Left to right, right to left. We don't know, but it was a good day! Let's tip our tassel to Erma Bombeck, who said, "“Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.” But we're still our kid's best cheerleaders!



Here are Hannah and Matt, lunching at Feast....mmmm....(see Laura in the mirror).


We enjoyed other graduation parties the day of...Peace Corps Fellows, Liana & Galen....so many smiles on the faces of parents on graduation. It takes me back to the first day of kindergarten, when the kids were fine and the moms were all worried and fretting. The kids are still fine!

Laura and her tree ring folks did some trial field research in the Pinalejos, the mountains about 60 miles east of Tucson near Mt. Graham. As it turns out, a few windy days kicked up a prescribed burn, and they were only on the mountain two nights. They went to the cabin for lunch, and when they came back a tree had fallen on their sitting spot. Then it snowed, and the temps dropped to 0 F. It was altogether a good field exercise, and everyone returned safely.

Sunday, we had a lovely graduation celebration...Matt, Anne, Laura, and Bob all pitched in on the food....a beautiful seafood paella, empanadas, and patatas - tapas-style from Matt;









Laura made malaysian green beans, three beautiful fruit
tartes (blueberry, strawberry and apricot with an almond meal
filling and her homemade orange marmelade glaze...mmmm),
and a white wine sangria with peaches and valencia oranges.






Anne brought a delicious gazpacho and her
wonderful pasta salad.








Bob made his fruit salad.











I made a mozzarella salad and an asparagus paella.










We had many reasons to celebrate - Tommy & Barb's engagement (the picture is too fuzzy or I'd include it),
Bert's upcoming 90th birthday
Liana and Galen's graduation and bon voyage to Japan,
Laura's master's degree from UC Irvine (it arrived), and a beautiful spring evening.

Honestly, we haven't had such a nice spring in memory. The 0F temperatures stayed on the mountain and it was maybe 86 degrees...really amazing...just a few breezy moments. I was altogether too chilly to swim!

We even had all the kids together for a photo, except Kyle who is still in Budapest. The dogs are really not evil vampire critters, just don't know how to deal with "blue-eye reduction!"