Graduation

Wow, so much is happening.  My head is spinning because it's all going so quickly.

Friday Chuck graduated.  Geeze, I remember when we FIRST moved here in March of 2006, the first event we went to was the senior dinner for the dept.  Chuck wasn't even an intern yet, but since he'd rotated here he knew some of the people in the department and they invited him.  He was telling me how all of the seniors were studying their butts off for their oral boards, how now they were all graduating and where they were all PCSing (permanent change of station, I had to ask what it stood for a couple days ago), etc.  It seems like yesterday, it really does.

Now it's our turn.  I haven't edited all the pics from graduation except for this one:

From left to right:
Vince and his family are PCSing to Germany
Gavin and his family are PCSing to South Korea
Dave and his family are staying here at Madigan
I hope you know who this is and where we are going by now
Eric is PCSing to El Paso, TX

Wow.  That's all I can say.  I just don't even know where to begin!

Friday night was their senior dinner.  The first years put this on and it was hilarious!  As usual.  They always put together a video and roast the seniors, and sometimes others int he department as well.  Too funny.  When we went right after Aaron was born, I'd just had a c-section a week earlier and I thought I was going to rip my stitches out.

Here's our house in a video today:


Saturday I threw a shower for my dear friend, Terry, who is pregnant with TWINS!!  She already has two boys, 4 and 2, and now she's adding a boy and a GIRL!!!  I'm so excited for her and Kyle.  Ever since they moved here they've both been a big part of my life.  I can't wait, or maybe not ( :) ), to come back and photograph the babies.  I think photographing ONE baby can be hard, I don't know what I've gotten myself into!

Haha, you thought I'd have pictures of the shower?  No, but I will.  Just know the ladies that helped me out did a FABULOUS job and I can't thank them enough!!

Then that night, I know I know, I had a small BBQ with some of our small group friends and our neighbors for Aaron's birthday.  Here are some pics from that.

His first present was from Aunt Dana and Uncle Andy.

 It's a Slinky!!

More people!!  Dave, the guy on the left was home on R & R and decided to spend his last night in the states with us.  We felt very special.  He won't come back home until October.

Next up...

Cars!!  They change color in cold and hot.  He LOVES them!!

AND....

A Mr. Potato Head!!!

And Thomas train tracks from Mimi and Papa.

 Delaney was enjoying watching.

Chuck did all the wrapping because I was so busy.  Notice what he wrapped it in?

And a Leap Frog Scribble and Write.  It's pretty cool, it teaches you how to draw letters, upper and lower case, and teaches you to follow directions.  Aaron's not so good at following directions.

  Also, from Mimi, Papa and Kristin he got a raincoat and hat, a few books, McQueen swimming trunks, and a dog book of some kind.  You can kind of see it in the box.

THEN!!!!!  He got an adjustable basketball hoop!  He LOVES this too!!  He always wants to go to the basketball court down the street, but there's no way he's going to ever make a basket there.  

He got cupcakes for his birthday this year.  And he actually blew out the candles without almost catching himself on fire like last year.

And the GRANDE finale, he got his very first bike.  He wasn't so great at it Saturday night but we got it back out again Sunday morning and he's getting better and better.

And then on his actual birthday, he got up early (of course).  He slept with Copper and whenever he does that he wakes up pretty early.  But this is what we did that morning: