Sending love from DC.
7:55 AM
Jason broke his wrist last September and has gone almost a year with out treatment. He had x-rays the same month that he was injured, but the Dr did not see a break:) So he has now gone to see a specialist who will operate soon and Jason will be pain-free and back to playing flag football. Here are some pics of us waiting in the car while Jason get's the CT. As you can see Ethan is examining one of the old x-rays:)
7:23 AM
Eliza can crawl! After months of Eliza army crawling from place to place she has learned to crawl. She just started yesterday, which surprised me because she has had a fever of 102 for about 4 days now. She is such a tough baby.
We took her to the Dr yesterday, because of the fever, but she doesn't know what it is. I'll keep everyone up dated if it turns out to be something interesting:)
4:58 AM
I Love You. I Love You. I Love You. This is a pic of the kids sleeping at Michelle and Jeff's Ohio reception. The top three are pictures of Kylie with her family we needed to take for her Sunbeam class. I'm glad we had an excuse to take some more pictures of the kids. It seems we don't take very many.
7:59 PM
Hey Lisa and Jason!
Everyone else wrote about my graduation so I guess its time I tell you the truth. I didn't really graduate. Holly and Shelly just took pictures of my friends. Just kidding!
Here's one of my senior pictures...its kinda dark. I have some wallets if your interested i could send them your way.
Graduation was wonderful. It wasn't nearly as boring as I thought it would, mainly because Wade (the valedictorian) and I played games such as "I spy with my little eye" and "rock paper scissors" while everyone was walking. It kept us entertained. My speech went decently well, although I was pretty scared. I guess I might as well post it for you, seeing as everyone else got to hear it. You don't have to read it though, seeing as everyone else didn't listen. :)
Kim’s Graduation Speech – May 30, 2007
The opening lines of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities were chosen to be the theme of our graduation.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.”
In this quote we see contrast so vividly just as we’ve seen throughout our high school years. We have had our best times: the football games, the dances. We’ve had our worst times: final projects and big tests.
It has been an age of gaining wisdom as we’ve learned from our own foolishness.
It’s been an epoch of belief: belief in ourselves and what we can accomplish, and an epoch of incredulity: we question what we’re told and figure things out for ourselves.
This season of Light has filled us with understanding – both of facts and human nature. This season of Darkness has shown us the lack of understanding that surrounds us.
We have hope despite the despair. We have everything before us despite the obstacles. We have nothing before us, nothing we cannot handle
Today we graduate from high school: a huge accomplishment. We could have dropped out, given up, but we didn’t. Instead, we stuck it through. Everything we’ve done up to this point in our life has been preparatory for everything we will do hereafter. We learned more than we expected to learn in high school. We’ve learned more than government, chemistry, and calculus. We’ve learned more than history and diagramming sentences. We have learned about life.
We have learned how to ask questions when we don’t understand, how to get along with almost anyone, and how the least likely people can become our friends. We have learned the art of procrastination and the art of hard work. We’ve learned that friends can be the support you need most, and, sadly, we’ve learned sometimes when you need it the most, friends cannot be found. It is during these times we have learned that we can handle more than we thought possible. We can stand on our own.
This is the greatest lesson we have learned in high school: we have greater potential than we can even fathom.
Marianne Williamson once said, “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?”
You have amazing potential to go out, do good for others, and accomplish much. Who are you not to be whatever you want to be? Do not fear your ability to do amazing things. Just go out and do them.
Many of us have more education ahead. Many have careers just around the corner, and others are even going to serve our country. Whatever path you choose, let it be a path that will lead to your goals. It is not so much what you choose to do with your future, but instead how you choose to do it.
Let us, you and I, resolve today to do something great with our tomorrows. We can accomplish anything. Go out and reach your potential.
The END!
Of the speech at least... now i'll tell you about the graduation party.
So, they had a mechanical bull! I rode it at least 15 times in about 3 hours. I hurt afterward. My hands were swollen, my legs bruised, my voice gone, and it was worth every ache in my body. To this day, my throat hasn't fully healed. Anyway, mechanical bulls are fun, painful, but fun!
Since graduation, I've been working a lot. I work nearly everyday but sunday. The Saturday before last I opened, arriving at 7:30, worked until 4. My second shift as a waitress started at 4:30. I closed. I got home shortly after 11. I was tired. Not to mention I had a spider bite on the bottom of my foot that throbbed. It's totally gone now, thank goodness!
I went to Girls Camp last week. It was really fun hanging out with a bunch of ity bity girls. We floated some tubes down a river one day. It was pretty mellow from the place we got in until the place we got off the first time down. The second time down, me and my buddy Mackenzie (she'll be a freshman in high school, but we're tight anyway :) ) decided we'd get in the river a little further up stream so we could go over a waterfall. When I say waterfall, it was pretty minor. maybe a four foot drop, and from where we were planning on going down it was really smooth, not straight down at all. The key word is planning... We got stuck on a rock right before going over the waterfall. In an attempt to free ourselves, we sent ourselves going off the other way. We went backwards off the steep straight-down drop somewhat sideways to the river's flow. According to Shaylynn who was watching, we flipped while still in the air with the tube landing on top of us. All I know is it was a major rush. It was so fun, we had to do it again. :) This time though, we made sure to go down the nice easy way.
Girl's camp was also all full of spiritual loving sisterhoodlike moments. I won't go in to those. There's not much to say, just a bunch to feel.
Since camp, more work... but that's life.
I love you so much! I'd post more pictures if I had any. Sorry I wrote you a five page essay. I hope you were able to read it all without falling asleep. I love you!
Kimmie
4:25 PM
Hey Lisa! Just wanted to let you know that we're still cute since you're across the country and were probably wondering. Here's a picture taken last weekend.
2:36 PM
Me and the kids went to Lagoon with Jenny and Will (who wouldn't be photographed) and a bunch of Loganites. It was a fun day.
Kirtlan's favorite part: The boat that rocks (he kept shouting at Jenny "What is wrong with this ride?!?!" Maddie thought every part at the bottom was fun and every part at the top was petrifying.)
Maddie's favorite part of Lagoon: Puff the Firebreathing Dragon -that kiddie coaster
Kirtlan says his other favorite part
was this ride that shot you up and dropped you. Like Drop Zone at Great America but it was a kid version and it was pretty high.
2:27 PM
I am the most awesomest picture taker EVER!!! If you can't figure out which one's Kimmie, it's her fault not mine. She dressed like everyone else and like I said "I take really good pictures
."
10:15 AM
Here's a few of them. WAIT! Is it green (Davis) or red (Ben Lomond)? How did Dave's robe fit on ya, Kim.
Holly
7:34 AM
Hey Kimmie-
I would love to see some pictures of your graduation! Congrats on your scholorship. We are all so proud of you.
2:50 PM
"He'll lead you down the path of righteousness. I'll lead you down the path that ROCKS!!!"
11:20 PM
We had a Family Home Evening to celebrate the "talents of men". We watched the Super Bowl and ate yummy food (thanks Em and Trav).
9:49 PM
I think its about time people paid some attention to our old games, mainly the movie quote game and the who would win a fight between! I need some people to respond to me! :)
I love ya all!
10:34 PM
Shelly, I like how you keep putting up new backgrounds for our blog. Lisa, I'll get those pictures of the scars to you soon! We'll play, "Guess Where This One's From".
Holly
7:42 AM
HOLLY-
A birthday at the beach may make you happy,
you seem to enjoy things that are sandy.
But alas, you are far from the ocean,
I just want to end this poem with the word candy.
-Kimmie
10:24 AM
Just thought I'd throw-up some pics of Holly and Jared from their carepages site so that they're on this site as well. We just had family dinner and they looked GREAT! (Not like they didn't always look great- just a spell during the end of November and beginning of December, they were a little worse for the wear) We're so glad that they're with us.
-Shelly
7:41 AM
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