7 Quick Takes Friday

Happy Graduation Weekend everyone! I know many schools already graduated, but this weekend is Fuller's graduation, so I'm celebrating with graduating folks this weekend. Here's what's been going on around here this week:

**1**
My husband is DONE with his quarter! Hooray! He now has a full week off until summer classes start & we opted to not travel anywhere this week, but to stick around here and get stuff done. Well, really, I need to work, but he has a bunch of random stuff to get done and lots of surfing to do! He deserves the break after a tough quarter!

**2**
Last Sunday we finally celebrated Charles' birthday (it was a few weeks ago) by attending Disney's live stage production of The Lion King. I'd seen it several years ago while it was touring, but he hadn't. It is incredible. If you ever get a chance to see it or take your kids, DO IT! I was so glad he loved it so much--he loved the costumes and the way the people were able to actually move like animals (it is pretty amazing to see, really!) Here are some photos I found on line to give those of you who haven't seen this a glimpse of the magic :)
**3**
It's a weekend full of celebrations--tomorrow we have 2 graduation parties for friends of ours, Sunday our students are being confirmed into the church with a celebration afterwards, and Sunday night we're celebrating our friend Ashley's 24th birthday--busy weekend! For the first time in the past 4 years I don't have to go to Fuller's graduation, which I'm not too bummed about--it's a pretty boring ceremony, so I'll be relaxing tomorrow morning before the parties begin!

**4**
This morning we went to the first 45 minutes of Cal Tech's graduation since the 3 students Charles has led a bible study for the past 3 years were walking. We got to hear the new president or director of NASA speak, which was pretty cool :) The most entertaining part was looking at the titles of the various doctoral dissertations--talk about a lot of REALLY intelligent people! We didn't understand most of the words in the titles, well, except for "and," and "the."

**5**
I'm half way through a great book called The Witch on Blackbird Pond, a Newberry award winning book, which has been wonderful! It's fun to enjoy a book written for junior high students every now and then!

**6**
We're having a bit of a rivalry in our home right now--it seems that a certain someone is an LA Lakers fan. I knew this when I married him, but well, I didn't think much of it. I have sense remembered that it is impossible for me to appreciate anything Lakers-oriented since I am a Northern California girl at heart. Lets just say I'm not rooting for the Lakers in the NBA finals. He is. We'll see how this goes...

**7**
The best articles/links posted on kirtsy.com this week in my opinion--enjoy!
On Being Heard (a beautiful post by a mom of a 6 year old boy)
The Logic of a 3 Year Old
The Secret Behavior of Married Women (I may have done several of these things...)
The Swagger Wagon (most of you may have seen this already but if not, you have to!)