30 Days of Thanks - Day 30!!!!!

I am grateful for the health and happiness of all those that I hold dear.  You give me so much strength!

The Fam!

My family drove up from North Carolina for my graduation and for some it was their first trip to visit me, here are some pictures of us in Canada, downtown Detroit, swimming at the hotel, etc.

The After party

Canada

Downtown Detroit

Graduation Day

As of Saturday, May 2, 2009, I entered retirement...If you can call it that. I graduated and somehow I managed to do it with honors, which was nothing short of a miracle especially considering that this last semester I almost totally blew off. I've been asked a lot since Saturday, "how does it feel?" Well after doing the school thing off and on for the past 10 years it really doesn't seem that different. Maybe it just hasn't sunk in that I am completely finished, maybe that will hit me when September comes and I'm still at home with Y while other people are busy doing school stuff. I dunno, but one thing's for sure I'll have to find something to occupy my time. Actually, now that I think of it, Y helps occupy most, if not all, of my time. Anyway, here are some pictures from the day!

This one is pretty self explanatory

With my parents & niece, G

B&U&I

Me with B & Y, my parents, sister, brother, nieces and nephews.

All of my nieces and nephews.

This Little Piggy Cried Wii, Wii, Wii...All the Way Home!

I have wanted a Nintendo Wii for the longest time now and I finally got one. I've wanted one for the past two years at least but could only justify spending that much on something if it were a joint Christmas present. However, we've known that we wanted Y for that amount of time so we'd end up buying something that we felt we needed when she was born. So one Christmas we purchased a digital camera so that we can take really good pictures of her (my old one really sucked...it was only 3 mega pixels). And this past Christmas we purchased a new camcorder so we could take really good videos of Y (if you haven't noticed yet, our world revolves around Y)! So I've been wanting this Wii for a long time and didn't really want to wait until Christmas so in January I informed Brandon that he was not to buy me a Valentine's Day gift, instead he was to put the money he would have spent on my gift aside because I was saving for a Wii. In fact I told him that any gift he would give me throughout the year (Mother's Day, Graduation, Birthday, etc.) he had to give me cash. I went a step further and told all our family members that if they were to get me a gift...give me cash. Well now, they no longer have to give me cash...my sister (and mother) bought me my Wii. They said it is an early graduation gift...I think I'll drop out now! haha...just kidding. 143