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Cali, Alex, Sam and Ann

Sam is hanging out with Alex this weekend at Tarleton. We met Alex in the Fort Worth Stockyards for dinner. He brought his friend Callie along. Callie is from Denton and her dad happens to work at Collin College in Frisco.

It was great to see Alex. Sounds like things are going great at Tarleton. He’s enjoying school, his new friends and his job with Kobie Wood. Kobie is a horseman in the Stephenville area. He’s letting Alex work at his ranch. Another great opportunity for Alex to learn from people in his field of interest.

Keep up the good work, Alex!

Been a little side tracked. Realized I hadn’t put up other pictures from Alex’s graduation weekend. I’ve added a movie and photo gallery. Click on the picture of Alex on the stage getting his diploma for the movie and the picture of Alex on the scoreboard for the slideshow.

10:45pm Update: Great party! Lots of friends who have been important in Alex’s life were there. We are all grateful to have such wonderful friends! Alex was pleased with the turnout and – of course – pleased with the thoughtful gifts.

1:00pm: We’re having a party for Alex today. You can click on the picture to see updated pictures that refresh every 5 minutes were taken throughout the day. You can also go to http://www.ustream.tv/scottblackman to see a live stream starting around 3:30 central time.

A couple weeks ago Ann and I went out to CGS to help put together bunk beds in the 5 new cabins at Main Camp. Hard work, but great to see the new cabins. Ann arranged for us to use one of the cabins for Memorial Day weekend. Sam had been wanting to share CGS with Sarah since he’s so enjoyed going there all these years. So we invited Sarah and her mom and dad to join us for the weekend.

We had a great time. Climbed to the top of Johnsons Peak, took a barge over to Hells Gate and climbed up Devils Island. We had a nice campfire on Sunday night and had “Hobo Packs” for dinner. All in all, a nice relaxing weekend

<< Click the image to see some of our weekend photos.

Alex, Bobby Lish, Jo Archin and Kim Roy have been friends for years. Alex, Kim and Jo were in St. Francis’ church school starting in 5th grade. Ann and Jo’s mom (Mayra) were their teachers. They continued their friendship in the St. Francis youth group starting in 9th grade. Alex and Bobby met at Camp Grady Spruce and struck up an instant friendship.

We got them together last week for a little senior “group picture”. The plan was to put them in cap and gown but everyone hadn’t gotten theirs yet. We all had fun.

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We finally got around to taking some “senior pictures” of Alex this week. We’d been talking about making time to do this since November. Figured if we didn’t hurry he wouldn’t be a senior anymore. Graduation is in two week!

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Spring Break this week. We convinced the kids to spend part of a day with us (harder than you might think!). We went to the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth to see a photo exhibit called The Art of the American Snapshot 1888-1978. After the museum we went to the Stockyards and had lunch. Alex was able to meet up with a girl who is going to Tarleton next year who happens to also be the niece of his guidance counselor. All in all a nice day.

Amon Carter Museum

Random pictures from the Amon Carter and Stockyards during Spring Break 2008

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Each year the Frisco ISD School Board recognizes students and athletes who earned the right to participate in the state UIL (University Interscholastic League) competition for their sport. This is the second year Alex was recognized along with his fellow team members at the meeting. This meeting recognized student from the Academic Decathlon, Swimming & Diving and Wrestling.   

School Board Meeting

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