May has been busy!

First it was my Moms birthday:

 

Then I went off to Washington DC with the nurses union for a conference, where I did some picketing at a local hospital, marched on Washington to the capitol in a rally for nurses and healthcare reform. We were then treated and various stages in the three days I was there to speakers like the U.S. Secretary of Labor, the president of the ALFO-CIO, Barbara Boxer, Al Franken, and Bernie Sanders (the socialist.) Wow did I ever feel like a fish out of water.

Then my little brother-in-law had his First Communion. It was mostly in Spanish and I had to keep asking Adrian what was going on. He said "I don't know. I haven't been Catholic in a really long time!" One of Adrian's uncles came up from Mexico and he made 50 llbs of Carnitas in the traditional way.

Ryan turned 10 months:

Then Scott and Aunt Pat had Birthdays. Grandpa had a birthday, and finally William graduated High school from my old Alma Mater CHS. TEN YEARS after I did. Oh and he graduated in the top 10% of his class and received a four year $32,000 scholarship to Southern Virginia University. Awesome! Well that about sums it up!