A Green 365 Blog: graduation

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Day 337: Tera Graduates!

Eric, Ashley and I went to the early service at church this morning, and then we headed our separate ways. Ashley to work, and Eric and I to Lawrence and Topeka for Tera's graduation! She's worked her tail off and got to walk the hill today! Yay Tera!

Ashley and Eric tied maroon ribbons on Grammy's tree...

...for their college graduation. :)

Mystic and Addy signed Tera's card with paw prints!

We saw this car in Lawrence (U NOOB)!

This car accident on I-70 made us almost 40 minutes late to Tera's party. Originally I wasn't going to post this picture because the KTA reported it as a fatality, but tomorrow they made a correction and said that the man was injured, but is recovering.

Tera's Dad has an AWESOME backyard! The pond has koi :)

Together again!

Graduation Tera!

In other, much less fortunate news, Joplin was hit by an E5 tornado and was left in utter devastation. While we were at Tera's house, we checked the weather in Joplin because her Dad had a friend or family member who wasn't sure what was going on. This was just a few hours before the tornado hit - leveling homes, apartments, Home Depot, and Walmart. We've got all the families affected in our thoughts and prayers. Ashley and Molly checked in on Phil and Gayle for the family - they were safe from the storm and their home isn't damaged, but they were in one of the places that was destroyed just 20 minutes before it hit. Well over 100 have been killed by this one tornado, but we thank God they made it through.

Friday, May 20, 2011

Day 335: Eric Graduates!

Today Eric, Ashley, and Shannon are all graduating from Johnson County Community College! It is also our 11 monthiversary, and today we paid Eric's car down to $4,000! A big day in the Green household!

This morning we both had work - my last Friday of the school year and another day at O'Reilly for Eric. I worked on wrapping up paperwork and packing my room, I really hope I don't have to move buildings again next year! Eric worked onmemorizing locations for the customers he delivers to. As soon as we were out of work, we each hustled to our respective parents' houses to get ready for gradauation. We reassembled with Mom, Ashley, Me, Paul, Deb, Shannon, and Eric at JCCC for pre-graduation pictures. Then we met Ken and Karen in the gym, and battled to save seats for Steven, Leslie, Brian, and Jen. Brian and Jen got here right as they closed the doors for the graduates to start filtering in...so they had to wait another 15 minutes right outside the doors.

And now, well...I'm blogging from Mom's iPad while all of these people graduate. They are halfway through the third row of graduates, and our three are all at the beginning of the fourteenth row... I think I'm going back to Angry Birds now!

After the graduation, we all went out to dinner at Cheddars. I think it's our new favorite sit down restaurant because the service is excellent, the atmosphere is cozy, and the prices are C-H-E-A-P!