Just got off the phone with Brandon. He was in line to go see the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Sounds like he has had a wonderful time in D.C., and will be raring to go back at the earliest possible time.
Oh, and he saw President Obama. Through the window of the Oval Office.
If you will be it the Alabaster area on either Friday or Saturday night, and are looking for a place to have dinner, let me suggest Full Moon BBQ. The ECCS 5th graders (including Brandon) will be working at there both nights, from 5 to 9, to raise money for their Washington, D.C. trip.
I’ll be there working with Brandon. Come on by and let the McGraws wait on you!
This was posted on Twitter over the weekend, but I wanted to share it here as well:
The family went shooting on Saturday. It was Caleb’s first time ever. I’d bought him a single shot .22 a few years ago (the tan one in front of him), and he did okay with it. However, I let both he and Brandon try out my 10/22, which is a Semi-Automatic. Caleb shot much better with it. I got Brandon to pull the trigger as fast as he could, and he loved that.
Caleb asked if we could go shooting again yesterday.
I hope you’ll forgive the lack of blog activity, and allow me to interrupt the silence with a gratuitous Dad brag.
Yesterday, we got a phone call from the Grammar school principal at Evangel. It turns out that Brandon’s scores on the SAT test have made him eligible for Duke University’s Talent Identification Program. We’re just learning about the program, so I don’t know a whole lot. But I thought it was definitely cool enough to brag about.
Saturday was a wet, windy, cold, nasty day. Great day to stay inside… unless you’re a Scout. Brandon raced in his first SoapBox Derby. Here’s video of his practice run:
Dad got recruited as a time keeper, and unfortunately did a really poor job of filming his actual race runs. But he had 8.47 and 8.50 times. He also figured out pretty quickly how to keep it in a straight line.
Sorry for the delay, folks. I spent last week in Philadelphia, and had no time to post these links. In fact, I still haven’t had a chance to upload all of the pictures I quickly snapped on my Blackberry, although those of you who follow my twitter feed saw most of those, in real time, as they were uploaded to twitpic.
We’re back in Birmingham, from our family vacation. For those of you who weren’t in the know, we spent the week in Orlando at Disney. I put a geek spin on it by trying to update Twitter (and Facebook) as often as possible, with a few pictures thrown in for good measure. You can review the tweet-by-tweet action, if you so desire.
Lots of pictures, video, and commentary to follow. But for now… I’ve got to get some sleep.
