Josh: After Graduation

 On Thursday, Josh got his wisdom teeth removed. He really wanted me to video him being silly. Unfortunately, he wasn't that sort of silly.  He was coherently silly.  When they came to take him to the car, he was ridiculously excited about getting to ride in the wheelchair. He wanted to race it down the hallway and kept trying to pop wheelies in it.  It was pretty dang funny.  But not conducive to being videoed.  This is him when he got home.  Not doing too badly.

On Friday, he had the annual burning of the school stuff.  He and his sisters burned all the no-longer-needed papers and notes from the year.  It would have been better if I'd remembered to buy marshmallows.

Cool kids

Callie 's class read and watched "The Outsiders" and dressed up from the book one day. This is Callie as a Greaser. So tuff! 

The 8th grade had a pool party on the last Friday of school.  Callie did NOT want to participate.  So she didn't.  We went out to lunch.  It was yummy. 

Marian created this Barbie house in her Green Tech class.  The girls have had a blast with it.  I have been amused. 

And Marian is driving!  She's working on it at least.  She is doing amazing and slowly gaining confidence to be out on the road.  She took the drivers class and got a 98% on the test!!  Now she had a week and a half before her behind the wheel portion. I hope we prepare her enough.

My birthday

 Well, if Callie had a birthday, then it means mine was right behind hers.  I did have a special day and I did enjoy my loot.  And now you can enjoy the photos that Dan and Callie took:

Callie's Birthday

 Callie had a birthday.  She wanted Blueberry muffins for breakfast, Carbonara for dinner and in ice cream cake.  Of course, I delivered.

Her ice cream cake.  Brownie layer for the crust, cookies and cream ice cream, chocolate ganache layer, crushed oreo layer and then whip cream.  

Yes, it was delicious.

And exactly what she wanted. 

Rylee is such a ham! 

The loot was good too. 

 Callie had a good birthday.  She even said so!

Annnnnd, We have a Graduate!!

 Well, before he was a graduate, Josh went to an awards dinner.

We paid big bucks to go to a sort-of fancy dinner where they passed out awards and celebrated the kids' achievements.  Josh was awarded a scholarship, which was exciting and he was recognized for his 3.6 GPA.

After the dinner, he hung out with friends and signed yearbooks.

But June 8 was the big day!!  

Yep, that's the best picture, because rather than use the school Auditorium, or the base theater, they held graduation in the gym.  I'm still a bit salty about that.  And you couldn't see much and they wouldn't let you get up and take photos anywhere near the "stage".   Whatever.  My boy graduated. 

After the ceremony, we looked for Josh and he looked for us and then he found us and was so cute, dashing over for hugs and congratulations. 

That's my boy!  He's a High School Graduate now! 

Getting all the love from his sisters. 

Callie insisted that he needed flowers.  So he got them.  And he was pleased.

There was some last minute yearbook signing. 

And then some victory pull-ups.... you know, since we were in the gym and all.

..... yep, still salty about the gym.....