Steve's Official Graduation!

What an awesome day!  It was one of the best days ever.  I can't explain how much admiration and love I have for my husband for completing his bachelor's degree.  It was a LONG hard battle but he did.  Despite life's hardships and obstacles he finally was able to finish one of his greatest goals in his life.

 Steve's mom and sister were there to support Steve at his graduation.  After the graduation Steve's mom took all of us to ice cream.  She also decorated the house and had some great banners hanging at our house, telling Steve what great job he did.  I love his mom. She is a wonderful woman.

This is part of my family that came to support Steve.  I love having a supportive family.  They are the best cheerleaders and friends anyone could ask for.  That evening everyone came over to celebrate. We played games and laughed and talked about what a great guy Steve is.  Could you have a better day than that?  Way to go Steve!

4th of July Weekend

I loved having the 4th be on the Sunday.  We were able to celebrate Independence Day the entire weekend, rather than just one day.  On Saturday we watched fireworks at Murray Park.  I wish I had gotten pictures of that.  It was so fun.  I just loved having my children snuggled up next to me as the loud booms went off.  There is nothing better than hearing your children ooh and ah at the beautiful fireworks. 

On Sunday we had a BBQ with Grandma and Grandpa Colbert.  I had to miss out on that one.  Lexie was sick and we stayed home. But we got to watch a movie and hang out. 

On Monday our family's big tradition is to have a big breakfast in the park, have an Independence Day devotional and then play until the afternoon. 

The weather was perfect and we played and played until  Elijah couldn't stand it anymore and needed to be napped. 

That evening we BBQ'd at my sister's house and then watched her fireworks and watched the kids with their sparklers.  It was a busy, exhausting day but very fun.  Man I love the 4th of July.  And I love this country.  I love being able to reflect on how blessed I am to be in this country that God has preserved for my family.  I am very blessed and am thankful for those who have fought to keep this country free.

What will He think of Next?

We were making a craft using pom poms and Elijah found a better use for them.

Growing Up Too Fast...

I had to take a minute and capture my children when they were all clean and ready for church.  Those moments don't happen too often.

Just Because ....

What a cute kid.  Just wanted to post this picture because I love 'Lijah's facial expression in it.

Our Family Vacation

May was a wonderful and ver busy month for us.  The Wednesday before we had to leave for our vacation Steve submitted his final paper.  On Thursday he received it back with a pass.  Which means he was done with school and has his bachelor's degree.  On Thursday he met with the computer programming supervisor and was officially offered the job of a junior programmer.  On Friday we finished packing and left for our family vacation.

This was a big milestone for our family.  We have had lots of campouts or family reunions.  But never an entire week of vacationing.  And my children were going to Disneyland for the first time. 

My only regret is somehow the memory card was missing from my camera and I was not able to get tons of pictures.  So I had to try and capture some of my favorite poses.

 I had to post a picture of the teacups.  David and Elijah hate any ride that goes up and down.  But they love being spun round and round.  So we took several turns on the teacups.  I don't have many pictures of the girls because they wanted to take off and ride the bigger rides.

I regret to say that this was one of the few shots taken at Sea World.  Everyone loved petting the bat rays.  And everyone got wet from Shamu.  Steve and I enjoyed the shows but the girls were off to try the roller coasters.  They had never been in a roller coaster that lifted you up through an elevator before.  By now my feet were really killing me. 

Our vacation was just over a week long and we loved it.   I am bummed that I have no pictures from our two trips to the beach.  The water was freezing but my girls and Steve waded out in it to catch some waves.  I am hoping we can go back in August to enjoy the ocean.  It was a bit exhausting to go Disneyland for two days, Sea World for a day and sandwich in a couple beach days in between.  But we had to squeeze in every minute of fun we could.

He Did It!!

Well folks Steve did it.  He finished school!  I will post more later but just had to announce the big news officially that Steve is done with school!