Graduations + Spokane Bound: A Fuji June
The Matchbook | 7.10.26
June. My goodness, June. I don’t know if we’ve had a month as packed, as chockablock, as stuffed to the absolute gills, in a long, long time. June was chaos, it was madness, it was motion, more than anything. Non.Stop.Motion..
Two graduations, a family reunion in Jackson, WY, and almost 20 hours of driving, all stuffed into just the first three weeks. Full, in every single sense of the word. Time, heart, soul, stimulation, all of it.
Here is part 1 of 3, because there were just too many photographs of too many things, and I want you all along for the ride.
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June began almost instantly with a bang. After Sarah spent time planting more things, as she absolutely adores planting things, we wrapped up the absolute final high school sports things for Addie. A tennis dinner to celebrate the end of her first, and last, year of tennis let us get a cool view of our downtown that we hadn’t really gotten to see much before, as it was held in a brewery, and neither of us drink haha. We also found 3 4-leaf clovers in our yard, and then I found a FIVE leaf one, which I’d never, ever seen before and think it must be even more luck than 4. Right? Hopefully it’s not a bad omen hiding that I don’t know about.
Fam cam into town to celebrate Addie’s high school graduation, all the way from Spokane, WA, and we got to give McGraw her birthday gift from her husband, Pat, early. She’s now officially a member of the Fuij club, as I helped him find a fantastic Fuji x100f all the way from China. Berto also surprised us by getting in early, and then did a bunch of henna art on everyone the night before graduation. Rad.
Graduation was emotional, as per usual, but luckily we had to host the big graduation party for Addie and her two friends immediately after, so Sarah didn’t have as much time to get overwhelmingly tearful. I think she was appreciative of needing to keep her hands, and heart, busy. Addie also surprised ME during the ceremony, by having them add Gregson to her name when they called her out to walk across the stage. My whole family cried, as both my older sisters no longer carry Gregson as their last name, so this was a first in all the years of hearing kids names called out at sports or anything else. Yeah. I cried.
Sarah looked beautiful, as usual. No surprise there.
I found a crazy giant cicada that had the most iridescent wings I’d ever seen on one of our nightly walks, and then, before I even understood what happened, we were back in a car and driving to Spokane, Washington. Time to repay the favor my family did for Addie, and attend my nephew, Griffin’s, graduation.
The trip was magical, and it was so wonderful to have the entire family together again. A little preview of sorts to the weekend that would follow it, where we all, and I mean ALL, hit the road together. You’ll see. Plenty more magic to come.
I love you all.
Be good.
