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| Our travels next brought us up to Wisconsin for Tyler's graduation. We are so proud of his journey and we were excited to cheer him on as he received his Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering. |
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| Tyler's on the big screen :) |
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| Part of the graduation cheering crowd. So happy Uncle Tom and Aunt MaryKay were able to make it. |
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| Hooray Tyler!!! |
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| Gotta love that they had this posted on the school wall! Yes!!!!! |
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| Tyler and proud papa! |
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| Time to celebrate - yum! |
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| ...a baseball cookie!! The grandparents "scored" with this one...haha. A funny Jameson story: during our 9+ hour drive up from Pittsburgh, which we decided to do from 5:30pm Wed-4am Thurs, Jameson woke at 12:45am and spent the next 1.5 hours shouting about big trucks on the road - all in good spirits and proud of himself when he shouted "softly" about one so as not to wake Ava. Sweet brother (right?! I guess you take what you can get!). |
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| Thank you Aunt Alecia and cousins Katie and Olivia who offered to watch the kids while we attended the graduation. We love you (and so do the kids!). |
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| Katie and Natalie enjoying some baby blanket play time with the girls. I think Penelope is wondering why I'm not joining them on the blanket - lol. |
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| Fun with daddy :) |
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| The celebration continued the next day (Sunday of Memorial Day weekend) down at my Aunt Kathy's house. All congratulated Tyler and we added a few birthday celebrations into the mix as well. Here's a picture of us cousins (missing just two of my cousins and their respective families up in Canada - miss you guys!). All the aunts and uncles couldn't get enough pictures, thus we are never all looking at the same camera! |
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| Having fun horsing around with Sara and Gunnar. |
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| Jameson makes dog friends everywhere. PJ won Jameson over after showing him her softer side. |
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| Aunt Alecia and Ava :) |
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| Rob and my cousins Eric and Amanda's little girl, McKenna (the newest great grandchild in the family). |
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| Glad we had the opportunity to take pictures of Opa (my grandpa) and his great-grandkids. |
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| Oh, Aunt Natalie....you're always full of surprises! We are so excited that you're expecting your next little one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She shocked us with announcing that she's pregnant and due right around Jameson's birthday in early January. As of now gender will be a surprise (as it was with Penelope), but we'll see if they can wait :) |
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| The perfect baby cheeks - love them big sista!!! |
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| This is Ava's attempt to reach out and grab a water bottle which is attracting her attention. She gets her butt up in the air and balances on feet and hands, but then realizes she doesn't have the strength to stand up and walk. You might ask, "well, why doesn't she just crawl to it?" |
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| Well, that would require crawling - which she refuses to do. Can you see the defiance on her face? She WILL NOT crawl. We've tried everything. All she wants to do is stand and walk - she just doesn't have the strength to make it happen yet. |
