He did it!

Jose graduated Friday night! A year early! I am so proud of how hard he has worked to get here. He already has a couple of jobs lined up to start next week. We had a great time, graduation was a little long for Max (and me, let's be honest) so we went outside in the lobby and played for awhile.

Jose and his mama

The brothers (don't worry, that hand signal just means '09)
My favorite eldest child Maricarmen (I promised her that Eduardo wouldn't replace her)
But, it's been hard. I mean, how can you not love that face?
We were getting a little antsy during the ceremony...

Senior Sunday is tomorrow, so I'll have pics of De and Josh (yes, Josh is back! He was in Arkansas this year and is back now for good! I only cried a little when I saw him, I'm no softie). Also, Takiea and Annie graduated from 8th and 5th grades respectively, so I'll have pics from their "party" also!

Confession

I had a conversation with a child today and I actually said, "You better check yo' self before you wreck yo' self." As the words were coming out I started cracking up, but there were no better words. It stopped him dead in his tracks and he calmed down for about 5 minutes. After that I just kind of looked at him and reminded him with my eyes, it seemed to work. I think I'll make that my class mission statement next year.

I promise to write more...2 more days 'til summer!

Where did the time go?

Max had his end of the year school program Thursday night. I can't believe that he is already six years old! He knew all the words and sang as loud as he could. This kid is goin' places. (Also, please excuse my frightening expression in that first picture, we were learning about our teeth and so we took a picture to study them. Not sure why that requires my mouth to be open like that. Whatever.)

Back with lots more from this weekend soon!

May

I love the month of May. It means the end of school, TV season finales, and Mother's Day. I've got another post about season finales, but this weekend was full of parties celebrating graduations and moms.

Cousin Ariel graduated from nursing school on Saturday! Woot!

After graduation, we headed to Altus to celebrate Mother's Day with my dad's mom and then go to Ariel's graduation party. On Sunday, my mom's family got together to celebrate Mother's Day.

Mother's Day is great because moms deserve a lot of recognition. My mother especially (I may be a little partial). My mother works so hard teaching every day. She goes early, stays late and brings a ton of stuff home. She cares so much about her kids that she gives up her own time to work on things for them. She doesn't let all that work get in the way of other things though. She is committed to Capitol Hill, cooking once a month, teaching twice a month, and doing all the pre-school curriculum. After all that, she still has time for me and my dad (which is saying a lot). Here she is with D at the CHCC Christmas party.

Thanks for everything, mom. I hope you had a fabulous Mother's Day! You deserve it.

Parents, I have so much respect for you...

This sweet little angel...

...was caught throwing trash from the balcony at church onto unsuspecting worshippers down below. The sermon today was about taming the lions in our life. Too bad I didn't get to hear any of it.