Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Graduation & Promotion

Spencer graduated from Ballard High School last Friday, June 13th.  
 Walking to Memorial Stadium.  We got lucky and found parking right on the street.  We had been on the road for about 20 minutes when we realized that the "no parking" time was 5-7pm and it was now 7:04pm--so we parked right where we were much to the chagrin of the people behind us!

 Spencer in the sea of faces.
 This Cailey from the Prom pictures in my last posts.
 These are two girls who went to elementary school with Spencer.  Carissa the girl in black was his best friend in Kindergarten.  She went to a different high school but came to the graduation because she knows lots of kids from Ballard.  Natalie in the red has also been with Spencer since Kindergarten.
 Cooper was promoted from middle school to high school today, June 17th.  The ceremony is outside the school in one of the parking lots.  It's low key because it's a promotion NOT a graduation.  This is us hanging out before the event.
 This Cooper and group of his middle school buddies after the ceremony.
 The other ginger boy besides Cooper in this picture is a boy named Jayden that always calls me mom at school.  Funny kid!  The tall boy in the blue polo shirt in both pictures is his best buddy Jack who has been his friend since pre-school.  Hard to believe but they have stayed friends all this time.  Jack is on the waitlist for Ballard next year and will hopefully get in, otherwise this will be their last school years together.
None of the pictures from the actual ceremonies for either one are that great so I didn't post them.  A big couple of days in the history of the Chandlers.

2 comments:

Lost Woman said...

Dapper graduation attire! I didn't realize the super long skinny tie was back. (I knew skinny... just not super long)

Nice both your boys have friends that go way back.

Soon only one son at home? How weird is that?

crazy lady said...

A "bit" late on reading this. but fun to see photos of the boys in their grad/Promontion phase. Time sure flies.