The Thompson Family

Lakeport's Memorial Day parade was a hit with our family. Nora and Grant scored big on the candy grabbing. There were lots of floats to support the veterans. And there were about 100 Corvettes!

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WOW - A truly awesome experience tonight. Mortar treated for a night at the ballpark in the bullpen seats. They are just to the right of the visitor dugout, basically IN the visitor bullpen area. Catered food and beer/wine, a really nice usher named JT, and lots of perks like Lou Seal coming down to visit.

A few kids from the Mortar family got to join us, including Charlotte, Georgia, Bea, (Mark's girls), Jack (Todd's son), and of course, Nora. And there was a whole contingent from Isilon, including some of their kids too. It was the familiar story of advertising agency + clustered storage leader + kiddos hopped-up on cotton candy w/ foam fingers + winning Giants baseball... a combo for a perfect night.

One of the Houston Astros bullpen catchers leaned over and gave Nora a baseball. Nora got filmed by the TV crew and even got on the Jumbotron! I missed the shot of her on screen, but my coworker Todd says he was Tivo-ing it (in HD even!) so hopefully the she got onto TV too! We also got to chat with (and get an autograph from) ice skating Olympic gold medalist Kristi Yamaguchi who was a "Ball Dudette" for the evening.

We were truly spoiled, and sitting in any other seats will feel so mundane! A huge THANKS SO MUCH to Mortar for the extra-special treat. View the photo set on Flickr.

Children's Village had a lovely picnic today out at McLaren Park. Lots of Nora's friends were there, as well as teacher and parents. The weather was perfect, although it was a bit gusty. View the photos on Flickr.

Dana Smith and his amazing Jack Russell terrier named Lacey were there for some impressive juggling and fun family entertainment. Here is a video of Lacey doing her Evel Knievel impression, jumping through a hoop over six preschoolers!

Nora, Grant & Dell do a cheer old skool style. Lots of extras in this one!

Nora & Grant do a cheer, coached by Grandmama Meena