A peek at the HONEYMOON

PHENOMENAL time on Amelia Island... which surely had more to do with what Grace and I have come to mean to each other than the place we chose to spend our first week as a married couple... just the same, it all added up to the perfect honeymoon...

- - - - - ...in a lighthouse!

ONE...

Grace and I had a ton of things to do to get ready for tomorrow's big event, but we were able to carve out a couple of hours for lunch @Pepper's with our precious family all here for the wedding...
It was also my little brother Mike's 47th Birthday!

TWO...

A few more early arrivals...Yet to arrive tonight are brother-in-law Mike Montague (California), Grace's daughter Bonnie (Fort Lauderdale) and Tim & friends from Asheville, NC!

THREE...

Hadn't seen Betsy since she moved to California four years ago... and she was the last of my four siblings to meet Grace!
Brother-in-law Mike flies in late tomorrow night. So great to spend the day with my sis and their terrific children Ryan and Nicole!Lunch at the Jax Beach Mellow Mushroom!

FOUR...

Family from Maryland! Grace's cousin Sue and her husband Harry are here for the wedding and took us to Carrabba's for dinner!

FIVE...

With the school year behind us, we worked on the reception area set-up and the logistics of transforming the kids' worship center into our little wedding chapel... How does it look?

6 days!

Less than a week till the wedding... Grace has one more day of post-planning; today we worked together getting her room all packed up for the move! Her school board has decided to move James Weldon Johnson Middle to a different (larger) campus, effective next fall!Here's the bride-to-be at her desk on the "old" campus for the last time...

Stanton Graduation

Will earned an IB diploma as #22 in a class of 397 at Stanton College Prep, one of the top five public schools in the nation!Pictured returning to his seat on stage (as secretary of the senior class) after receiving his diploma.

FIHS Graduation 2011

Since I teach only Spanish 1 and 2 this year, I know very few of our graduating seniors... you may remember this one from a March entry; Forrest Ashby was the captain of our first State Spanish Conference Team... I even got a little video of him receiving his diploma!
...and here's the foreign language department (teachers of Spanish, unless otherwise indicated) all decked out in our robes:L2R: Laura Gerds (ASL), Enitza Calderón, Ruth Brasfield, Magdalena Torres-Sierra, Jennifer Kruse (ASL), Pam Johnson, Mysteri Arthur (ASL), Elizabeth Irigoyen-Meyers, Holly Fitchette (French), GK