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21 years ago…

Published on June 21, 2008 in Long Ago & Far Away and Proud parent. 1 Comment

Tomorrow (Sunday) marks the twenty-first year that we have had our sweet Alison with us. Her arrival was a wonderful thing. I remember being in awe that we actually got to take her home! We didn’t have medical insurance in those days, but they let us take her home anyway, and we promised to pay the $50 a month they wanted. (It took a long time to pay off, since we got all ready for a C-section and all. DIdnt end up having the C-section, but that’s a longer story than I have time for now!)

I remember the pride I felt when I first strapped Alison in her car seat in back of our 1968 Datsun sedan, and took her for a drive, just the two of us. (Since I’m going back in time, there was also the night I ran out of gas in that same Datsun, with her in the back. I locked the doors and went into a house that was right there by 99W, and called my dad. Then I went running back out to make sure she was still there. Wow—fatherhood is great!

Happy Birthday, Alison! You have become such a fine young woman, and you make your mother and I very proud.

Aaron’s Graduation from NHS

Published on June 7, 2008 in Proud parent. 1 Comment

Here are a few shots of Aaron’s big night…

Mr Brand really gets into his “speech”! Chosen by the students as the faculy speaker, he was demonstrating all of the changes this particular class has had to endure. He had quite a few shirts on when he was done, and he did an excellent job!

Almost there!!

He’s got it!

With the family.

Congratulations, Aaron!

3-2-1-0

Published on June 6, 2008 in Proud parent. 1 Comment

Aaron’s countdown to graduation reached zero today—and he really did graduate!

He played in the jazz band at the start while the guests streamed in, smiled a lot, and really looked like he was soaking it all in. We are really proud of him. I’ll get a couple pics posted soon of the grad in his gown on his big day…

I’m going to get rid of the “countdown” feature for a while. It was fun to watch it trickle down to this day, and also to be reminded of the last days of Deanne’s schooling, but Austin has 1095 days until his graduation ceremony—that’s a bit too long of a countdown! Alison is next. She’ll be graduating from George Fox next spring!