Happy Birthday Nick and Grammy

This summer grammy came back to Long Beach at the end of July.  Grammy says she won't miss a birthday celebration with Nick, she loves to share birthday cake with her grandson.

Grammy spent her birthday in California with Henry and Katie.  Here there are sharing a birthday cake!

When grammy came to Long Beach, we had a tiny cupcake for her.

On Nick's birthday we had a  tiny cake with candles.  Grammy gave Nick colorful balloons as a surprise.

Katie made Nick a special cake for his Saturday night pizza dinner.  Mom said, "what a beautiful plate!" 

Nick has been eating his pizza on this plate every weekend.

Visiting Day at Camp Kehilla

In July mom took a day off from work for visiting day at Camp Kehilla. 

When mom got there Nick was playing with his music group, he was all smiles playing the drums.

Then we had lunch at tables under the trees.  All the kids were eating and the parents were happy to be visiting.

Nick was happy mom came to visit camp.  After lunch mom had to go home in the car because it was Nick's group turn to play in the pool!

Fireworks!

Every year Long Beach has fireworks.  People come from far away to visit our town, enjoy the beach, and then watch the show after the sun goes down.

At sunset we walked down our cross street to the beach.

We found a place to sit on the sand and wait for the sun to go down.

After it got dark we watched the fireworks.  Everyone was cheering and clapping for the beautiful show!

Decorating for July 4th

Every year we put out our patriotic decorations for July 4th.  This year we put out little flags and red, white and blue decorations.  We displayed Nick's United States flag map and flag artwork Nick made at school.

Graduation Day for Henry

In June, Henry graduated from middle school and now he is going to high school.  Grammy and Aunt Nicole went to see the ceremony.  Here are the pictures they shared.

 This is Henry in the last week of school.

This is a picture of Katie on the last day of school.

Aunt Nicole and Ryder drove to visit so they could see the graduation.  Here they are sitting in the audience waiting for the ceremony.

Grammy was very proud to share this picture with Henry and Katie.

Here is a picture of Henry with his family.  We are sad that we could not be there on this special day, but at least we got to see the pictures and celebrate Henry's success!

Getting Ready for Camp Kehilla

Mom and dad told Nick that this summer Nick would do something different.  Nick is not going to summer school in Long Beach, Nick is going to Camp Kehilla.

We went to visit the camp.  Nick looked a little concerned on the visit.

 We rode in a golf cart around the camp and took a tour.  Mom and dad liked the camp, but Nick was still serious.

 Until Nick saw the four pools!  Then Nick was happy!

On June 25th, Nick went on the bus to his new camp.