M & N began summer by getting together with friends and creating summer buckets lists. They are all beautiful and they are both so excited to have plans with friends for when there is no school. N's hang out also included swimming & a trip to Ziggi’s & pictures sent to me. Danny and his friends have gone camping couple times together and Danny is getting sick of eating hot dogs on the weekend but he is having so much fun. They also woke up for a morning sunrise and then he came home and went back to sleep. Summer is good for the soul. With all the camping in May it should be a surprise that our truck now has over 100,000 miles on it. When it had around 2 miles left we decided to drive to Dairy Queen and hit the milestone as we entered the parking lot and took a video and photo. Ice cream is such an excellent invention for celebration. M also got to celebrate V's birthday with many of her favorite people and her mom shared this cute photo....
When your oldest child hates the photos you took after her graduation ceremony & you forgot to ask someone to take pictures of the party, the blog post becomes much shorter than planned. For the record, our family and my parents all got dressed up and went and enjoyed the perfect weather for an outdoor graduation ceremony. Well, perfect for those of us not wearing a cap and gown. They could have used a few degrees cooler but most of us were just grateful it wasn't raining for the first time in a week. We are thankful for the precipitation but so glad the ceremony didn't have to be moved to the gym. The event was over two hours long and our camping chairs were much more comfortable than bleachers would have been. Their ceremony was very nice with all the usual things you would expect like a teacher speaking, honors being announced, a student speaker, salute to the armed forces, and everyone getting to walk across that stage, move their tassels, and...