Happy (almost) Graduation!

Saturday was Alan's graduation from Whitworth with his Masters Degree in Secondary Education. We are getting very excited for him to be finished with this hurdle. He has enjoyed all the classes, but we have not enjoyed having Daddy gone for evening classes so we are glad this chapter is soon coming to a close. He has to finish his Professional Certification and take two short course this summer, then he will really be done! Hip hip hooray! So, since he so so close, he walked in the ceremony this last weekend and I must say looked very scholarly. :) I hear the ceremony was quite nice and the speakers were very good, but I wouldn't know since Maya was being a bit noisy so I had to take her out for most of it. I did however get to see Alan walk across the stage and be "hooded" :), so I can't complain. Alan's parents and his Gramma were able to come to the ceremony, so it was a nice little pre-celebration. :)

Sorry, this is not a very good picture...my camera was freaking out. Anyway, that is Alan in the middle waiting to have his hood put on him.

And here we are after the ceremony.

My first "real" word.

So Maya has been starting to understand a lot more and talk some. She has been saying "Mama" and "Dada" for a while and also "duh" for duck, but finally she has a word that I think you may all be able to understand. I tried to get a video of it, but this is the best I could do for now. She gets a little distracted when the camera comes out. Anyhow, let me know if you can understand her. :)

Fun in the sun...finally!

So, last weekend was beautiful, even hot! We took advantage of the weather and played outside a bit. On friday we went downtown and saw the raging river and played in the fountain. We need to go downtown again soon because we hear the river is even bigger. We've never seen it quite like this before. If you're familiar with downtown, we are on the foot bridge before right before the falls and we were getting a little spray from the water.

Don't make me touch the grass.

We know this is fairly common for kids, but it was still funny. Maya doesn't really know what to think of this prickly green stuff.

Maybe if I hold my feet up Daddy won't set me down.

Now what, I'm stuck. Alan tried to set her on her hands and knees to see if she'd crawl in the grass...not so much. She was stuck in this "tripod" position for quite awhile. Silly girl.

Fun weekend.

Just thought I'd share that I'm married to a really great man. Alan worked hard to make this a special mother's day for me. We went out to dinner on Friday night (always nice to have a break), he bought me flowers, and put together some pictures from this past year. (I tried to get a picture so you all could see...) Then on Sunday we had dinner with Alan's family in Cd'A where he made BBQ chicken for us all! Thanks Mr., I love you very much!

Bloomsday 2008

We finally did it, Bloomsday that is. We've talked about it for awhile now, but this year we actually got our act together and registered on time. We, of course, walked the 12K (7.5 miles). It was a fun time to be together and to be outside! Yay, finally nice weather to enjoy! Maya did really well, she took a little nap and just enjoyed to the long stroller ride. I was suprised at how many people there were, I knew there would be a lot...but I thought it'd thin out as we got going. Well, that didn't really happen and I must admit by the end I was ready for a little bit of my own space.