Daughtry Concert

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Shelby and Taylor

And the curtain goes up?  Or does it come down?

Theresa and I took Taylor and Shelby to the Daughtry Concert at the Cumberland County Civic Center on the 17th.  The girls had a great time as did Theresa and I.  I'm not if the musicians actually have gotten louder as I've aged or if it's just because I've aged, but over the past few years I've started wearing ear plugs to these things.  While it doesn't muffle the music to wear them, it does cut down on all the background noise.  And at times it actually hurts if you don't wear them.  For those of you that don't know who "Daughtry" is, his name is actually Chris Daughtry and he came in third a few years ago on American Idol and has actually done quite well for himself along with his group.

Another year older and deeper in debt?

Remember that song from Tennessee Ernie Ford?  Right now that fits the elders in Birtville.  Celebrated the beginning of my 55th year on this terresterial orb today and while I must say I had a very uneventful day, it was also a very nice day.  I spent the whole day essentially just reading a book.  Justin and Adam were both home, Art was at Habitat for the day but we had a nice barbeque for supper all together.  I even had the chance to finish the book I was reading.  Jen Lancaster's newest, "My Fair Lazy".  Any of you who know me, know that I just love her and her writing, and while her book "Bright Lights, Big Ass" will always be my favorite, all of her others have entertained me immensely.  Our latest news?  Art is now working for MONEY at Habitat for Humanity here in the Portland area.  While this is only a temporary situation, he is enjoying it and plans to continue with his volunteering even after the paying job is finished.

Another Nursing Class Graduates

Pinning on May 15, 2010 at SMMC. Not all students were there but the ceremony was very tasteful and many thanks go to Victoria Quinlan for making this possible for the students!

Two of our students--Victoria Quinlan towards the middle right with the wide gold stole on, and Kerri Mayo on the far right. Victoria was top student in the whole Nursing Program

Melissa Cantara, RN, Tanya Pike, Debbie Poirier, and Kerri Sullivan. Tanya, Deb, and Kerri will be taking their state board exams soon. As you can tell Melissa has taken and passed her boards! Congratulations to them all!Faculty in waiting

Karen and Penny getting ready.

Another of our nursing classes from York County Community College graduated in May. These are some of the pictures from Graduation and of the pinning on Saturday evening.

AFV Audition

Shelby auditioned for AFV

HP Weekend

Shelby and Carla at the Rainforest Cafe, Burlington, MA

Shelby and Taylor at the MOS, Boston

Well, I said I'd be back with some postings of stuff that went on during the winter. So here is the first entry.

In February, the folks from Memory Lane and the Mama and Papa from Birtville took a trip to Boston so that the womenfolk could tour the Harry Potter Exhibit at the Museum of Science. We had an excellent time--a few rough spots on the trip down, but all in all a great trip. The ladies were thrilled with the exhibit since they are all crazy, fanatical Harry Potter fans. After a nice dinner at the Rainforest Cafe, we scooted back up the turnpike to Birtville. Here are a couple pictures that Steve took. We missed the most priceless one of all, and we should have been thinking ahead. As any good exhibit would, the end of this one emptied out into a "gift shop" of sorts. As as any good women would, the ladies wanted a souvenir so they spent a great deal of time looking for something to purchase that wouldn't cause the menfolk to have to take second mortgages on either Memory Lane Manor, or Birtville. But since that wasn't to be, the ladies decided not to purchase a souvenir (wooden carved wands were at least $45). So the ladies wandered back to the museum entrance to wait for the wandering men. While waiting, Taylor decided she needed a picture of the dome roof of the museum that had the HP logo on it, so she went out to take a picture. When she came in she had a stick with her just about the size and shape of the wands for sale in the gift shop. Long story short, after much laughing and discussion the stage was set for a good laugh. When Art and Steven caught up with the waiting womenfolk

they of course asked Taylor and Shelby if they liked it, if they had fun, and the winning question, "Did you buy anything?"

Taylor was priceless as she used her poker face and said, that yes, she had found a souvenir--a wooden wand and she only paid $35 for it. No one said anything and both Theresa and I said after that we should have had a camera on Steve's face. The progress of emotion and thoughts that were going thru his mind were incredible! You could actually see his thoughts...well, of course after this no one could keep a straight face and before Steve could have a stroke, Taylor had to come clean and admit that it was just a stick that she picked up off the sidewalk....ah the missed chances in life!