She’s one tough gal

I’ve blogged before about Adam’s mom going back to school. For the past few years she’s been working so hard to become an RN and she did it! We spent some time last month in Mississippi to celebrate her. She is an amazing woman. I remember nursing school and how ridiculously tough it was….and I was 19-20ish. They try to weed people out purposely. It has been a long tough haul for her…and Adam’s Dad. I know that he has sacrificed a lot these past couple of years too. His parents are amazing people and I have more pictures to show about some things they are doing in another post.

We do not travel much anymore, therefore do not get down to see Adam’s family very often. When we do, it is a whirlwind of trying to fit in seeing as many folks as possible. Inevitably we always miss one or two and are disappointed. This trip, in particular, to me was a little different. I really wanted to focus on Mom’s graduation and the girls (our nieces) which I will blog more about too.

But I really want to share these graduation pictures. After all, this woman deserves to be bragged about:

Married almost 40 years!!!

Proud to call them my family

Here we have a lovely photo of several of my family members at my niece’s graduation. Don’t we look like such a nice group of folks?

The gentleman with the black shirt and his head down is Grandpa Jake, then there is myself of course looking for the kill apparently, my mother is sitting to the right of me, behind her to the left in the blue is my little brother and to the right is my older brother and the girl in the brown in the front to the left is #5…aka Anna Banana.

I just want to thank Adam for getting the “good side” of us in this photo. Ha!

Becka-Boo; Valedictorian

Our niece, Rebecca Lee graduated the first Saturday of May. This is our second niece to graduate. She is beautiful. One thing about Becky that has always held true…even back to our wedding when she was a flower girl and only three years old. Whenever you say her name and she sees you have a camera and are going to take a photo of her she immediately smiles. I’m glad she does…it brightens up the entire room when she does!

Here she is on graduation day:

Her hair had gotten really long but in honor of a friend that died her Freshman year Becky had her hair cut off graduation week for "Locks for Love"