Congrats grads

I just noticed that a lot of parents walked with their kids at graduation this year. This link shows a lot of the happy doctors of laws and their children:
http://www.stormsphoto.com/gallery/8561115_xSo4t#574170371_NGmx2

Great photos, happy day. Congrats all!

First Birthday Party Pics

Emily Kelly sent us some pictures of Addison and Avery's first birthday party. Addison is on the left, and Avery is on the right. The top picture is of their dog, Ziva, who partied with the twins on their special day.

Most recent baby pictures

Introducing Thomas Elias Lewis Gust!

Born 4/14/2009 at 10:21am

More baby pictures!

Here is a recent picture of Yin's beautiful son Ethan, who is now 8 months old. (Wow!) Yin is on leave this year, but is planning to come back to the law school next year.

If you have any recent pictures of your kids for the blog, please send them!

UWeek article on the Remote Learning Room

Photo by Kathy Sauber, University Week

The campus e-magazine UWeek has a nice article on the Remote Learning Room. Check it out here:
http://uwnews.org/uweek/article.aspx?visitsource=uwkmail&id=45183
The main page of the e-magazine is here:
http://uwnews.org/uweek/index.aspx

Very cute picture of the Harwoods! What do y'all think of the article?

(Also, as long as you're here, please leave a comment on the onesie post below...)

Pictures from the PALS picnic in September

Here are a few long overdue pictures from our picnic last month. I took these with my phone's camera, so they're not the best pictures. If anyone else has better pictures, please let me know!

Summer babies

Congratulations to all who had babies this summer!
Yin Cheung's son was born two months early, on Aug. 12, but is doing well in the NICU. Here is little Ethan:

2L Tanja Douay became a mother on July 6. She says Yana Milena is an "absolute angel":




Congratulations also to Prof. Kaltsounis, who had a baby earlier this summer. Any other baby news? Email me (Lisa dot kremer at comcast dot net) or friend me on facebook. (Yes, I'll stop posting on the blog soon, I've graduated, I'm supposed to have moved on... but I haven't started work yet, so, whatever.)

Post bar life

A few photos from the last week:

Because I live in Tacoma and the bar is in Bellevue, I got a hotel room for the bar and Ray shared it with me. The week before, consumed by stress, we both decided to go a day early so we could try to have a couple of uninterrupted nights' sleep before the exam (something about 3-year-olds and sleep doesn't mix, apparently). Here's how we spent the day before the bar:



Here's a photo from Megan's facebook page -- I certainly didn't have the presence of mind to take a picture, but yes, this is the room where 800 people sweated out the bar for three days:



Afterward we had friends over to our hotel room for champagne. Ray's husband came with her daughters, wearing T-shirts her law firm had made for them:



Friday, I took the kids out for ice cream IN THE MIDDLE OF A WEEKDAY -- scandalous! -- and took this picture, which I emailed to my husband at work to make him jealous. It worked.



Ahh, post-bar life. Nothing to do but clean the house to unearth three years worth of crap, punctuated by trips to the local frozen custard stand. And beer! How I've missed you, beer. Life is good.

Graduation photos

Hey PALS, graduation photos, finally! I don't have many pix from graduation but the few I have are posted below. If anyone has more please feel free to add them or email them to me and I'll post them.

Ray thought to bring her camera on stage, clever woman, and snapped these of her, me, Louis and Laura just as we were about to cross the stage:

Karen and Nathan after the ceremony: (I stole this off Facebook)

Laura and Allegra:

These are the professional photographer's pix of me with my daughters getting their pretend diplomas, and Louis posing on stage with his son:

The ceremony itself was great (for me, anyway -- my 3-year-old was trying my husband's patience, but I knew nothing of that, blissfully partying on stage with my buddies). At times the speeches seemed to run a tad long, but actually the ceremony ended right on time. Dean Hicks was a great emcee, I really liked him and thought, dang, I should've taken a class from that guy.

Tips for next year's 3Ls: Dress as light as you can because those robes get HOT under the lights. Carry a little passport wallet with your camera (and a snack! I would've passed out if not for Ray's Luna bar). If you're going to have your kids walk with you, when you are lining up back stage, finagle your way to the front so you can walk across early, so your kids don't have to wait around until the end of the ceremony. Mine walked the stage with me, then my husband took them straight out to the lobby to play until the ceremony was over.

And, by the way, note of appreciation for our administration -- I have a friend at Gonzaga, and there, kids aren't ALLOWED on stage at graduation. Man!

Study break: Baby pix!

Take a deep breath, lower your shoulders, exhale... Now further de-stress by checking out some of PALS' adorable kids.

Alex, Melissa and Eric's little slugger:







Vanessa Hernandez' little guy eats a monkey and shows off his abs:



Amanda Carmany-Rampey's son goes for a swim:



Charles Gust's son chills out and shows off his Popeye muscles:

Emma Kagel Berry's son Eli:







Peter Moreno's girls:

Lisa Goldoftas' sweeties:

Lisa Kremer's girls:

Kids at commencement

By my count there could be as many as 25 -- or more! -- children of students at commencement this year. Dean Madrid's office is planning to have certificates for each child. They are non-personalized, so don't worry about getting the Dean your children's names.

In case you haven't gotten the word, the instructions are thus:
If you plan to have your child/children walk the stage with you when you receive your diploma, make a plan with a responsible adult (RA). The child/ren should sit in the audience until the speeches are through and the degrees are about to be handed out. Then RA brings the child/ren to the front and hand them, carefully, to the student on the stage.
*This is very important: student on stage keeps a firm grip on child/ren during the walk across the stage. The orchestra pit is open and unfenced. And verrry deep.
RA needs to walk across to the other side of the stage and take child/ren back after the walk.

By the way check out the new banner across the top of this blog: http://lagliv.blogspot.com/ Warning: it'll probably make you queasy. Sorry about that.

At right: Karen Alexander Horowitz's son finds out what's going to be eating mommy alive the next couple of months.

New babies!

Congratulations to Vanessa, who had her son earlier this week. To help y'all have a moment to de-stress before finals, here are some photos of a few of the law school babies who were born this year. There are more new babies out there -- send me photos!

Carlos Manuel "Manny", Vanessa's son

Nathan, Karen Horowitz's son

Alexander, Eric and Melissa's son

Eli, Emma Kagel Berry's son




Corinne, Peter Moreno's daughter, born Feb. 29