Showing posts with label graduation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graduation. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Preschool Graduation


Somehow I blinked and Brayden graduated from Preschool in June.  I am not sure how that happened so fast.  Seems like just yesterday, we were taking him to daycare for the very first time as a tiny 4 month old!


We have been blessed to be at a wonderful daycare in our neighborhood the past 4 years and Brayden made some really good friends while at daycare.  Most of the kids at the daycare live either in our neighborhood or within a 5-10 minute drive from our neighborhood so now that many of the kids have been split up into many different elementary schools, it is still easy to get them together!  As an added bonus, many of the parents have become friends as well and we also enjoy hanging out together!

The daycare had a graduation ceremony for the kids and they all performed 5 songs for the families then they got a certificate from the director.  One of my very favorite parts was the slideshow that Brayden teacher and husband had put together of the kids over the years.  Many of the pictures were taken at school so the parents had not seen them.  We saw a totally different (but good) side of Brayden through those pictures!  When he is with us, he is often shy and reserved (not always but definitly not the most wild, out going child either).  At school, we saw a kid that was having SO MUCH FUN goofing off, playing, learning, and just being a kid! 

Marching in



Classic Brayden face!
After graduation, they had a party in the clasroom for all of the kids and families. 

Brayden and his sweet teacher Ms Shaye    
Brayden, Zach, and Trey - best buds

That night, one of the families hosted a huge cook out to celebrate.  The teachers and director were there as well as most of Brayden's friends.  It was a lot of fun to hang out with everyone a final time. 

A little basketball after a nasty thunderstorm ran us all into the garage!

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Matt's Graduation

So I am going back to May on this (yeah...I am bit behind on a few things).

Matt graduated (for the 3rd time!) back on May 10, 2013.  This time with a Bachelor's degree from ECU in Industrial Technology.  He did all of the classes online (I can't imagine doing that...ugh!) and finally met several of his professors at graduation. 
Marching into graduation
Getting his diploma
Marching out again
This degree was achieved while working full time, playing soccer, being fairly involved a church, and with 2 kids.  His hardest semester (3 crazy hard classes) was the semester that started when Lilly was about 1 week old.  I begged him to drop a class, but he (we all) made it though :) 

The kids had fun with Grammy and Paw while we were at graduation too!
We are supper proud of Daddy/Matt and his big achievement!   We love you!!