Blackmans on the Web (log)

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.

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.

Click the image to see a slideshow

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!

Click the image below to see a slideshow.

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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UPDATE: For those if you having trouble seeing the video below, please try it on YouTube. Click on the YouTube logo on the to see the video.

Quality will be much lower but it may minimize any frustrations around having to install plug-ins. (Note: Installing the Quicktime plug-in for Windows will insure you’ll be able to see future videos.)

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The 2007/2008 Swimming and Diving season is behind us. Both Alex and Sam ended the season on a high note. Sam missed going to the State meet by only 11 points. Fantastic finish for a first year diver. Alex was able to get back to State again this year on a relay team (200 Freestyle Relay)I put together a little video with pictures and movies from the end of the season. Click the image below to open it up in a new window. (Note: it requires Quicktime to be install. QT is available for both Mac and Windows. It’s free and easy to install)

These are some photos of Sam and Alex at camp, summer 2007

These are some pics of Alex, Sam wakeboarding last summer…