Graduation Day!!!

Well, I am way behind on my posts. A lot has happened since the 4th of July, but I will catch up soon. I just wanted to make sure I posted this today because today was a huge day for our family! Yes, Scott graduated!!! It was a day full of mixed emotions - excited and so happy to be done with school, but at the same time sad because we probably won't see many of the PA students for a while. We have made some amazing friends and they will be our friends for life - but we are all going different ways for jobs, so it will make it a little more difficult to get together. All in all - it ended up being a really nice day and a huge relief. There were only 48 graduates so it made for a fairly short program (which was nice considering my kids were so not into it.) Luckily we had both sets of parents there to help entertain the kids. Thanks to both of you for coming. That really meant a lot to Scott and I.

This is when Scott got hooded. And when he received his diploma.

The PA graduating class of 2009.

These are some of Scott's PA buddies. They were a very tight knit class. It was fun for us wives too.

Our little family afterwards!!! Austin was so pumped to hold the "big folder".

Ryan, Heather, & Hattie Williams and us!

Scott and Jon Pittard - Jon & Scott had some of the undergrad classes together and become pretty good friends and then Jon moved to Boise and they both went into the PA program. In Boise they have an extension from ISU and so they were classmates again via satellite.

PA school was an awesome experience for our entire family. It was hard at times, but it's exciting to see that it is all paying off. It's exciting to have the school part of our lives done, but at the same time it's crazy to think of how life will be without school. Hopefully much better. We just want to thank everyone for all of their love and support as we went through this program and want to wish all of our fellow PAs good luck and lets make sure we all keep in touch!

4th of July!!!

We had a great 4th of July. We didn't know what we were going to do until the day of. We went out to the Ulrichs and had a yummy barbeque. Always a good time. We were trying to kill time until it got dark, but it was really hard to wait THAT long. We let the kids start off with the regular snaps. They love them.

Koen wasn't sure at first, but after a little bit he would walk around and pick them up and make sure they had been snapped.

It was so hot! The kids were dying. (I don't know why Austin is in pants. Whoops!!!)

It was starting to get a little darker, so then we could bring out the sparklers.

Koen made me really nervous with the sparkler. He almost started my hair and his on fire a number of times.

When we finally started the real fireworks, Koen just wanted to sit on Aunt Leisja's lap. It was really cute.

The kids did really good just sitting and watching. No incidents fortunately!

Our little family after a long HOT day of fun and fireworks.