Graduation Day Part 3

For our third and final graduation this season we got to go back to my alma mater. My youngest sister Lauren graduated high school from IHA the first Sunday in June.  Catherine of course slept through the whole graduation.  Jackie started getting rowdy during the opening prayer, was quickly escorted out and returned just as the graduates recessed out of the gym.  Of course.  I heard the guest speaker, Mary Beth Kean Class of '95, had the best speech of the afternoon.

In the fall Lauren moves onto Monmouth University to study both Education and Art.  Two days after graduating she celebrated her 18th birthday, so congratulations and happy birthday Lauren!

I guess it is important to note that at the Baccalaureate Mass on Saturday night my parents received the IHA Family Award.  This special recognition is given to those parents who have three or more girls graduate IHA.  While most years would be lucky to have one family get the award, this years class had about six or seven families receive it.  I think my mom first got excited about the award when she found out about it at my Baccalaureate Mass.  I heard she has put a call out to the National Archives for tips on properly preserving the plaque.

The happy graduate

Sleepy Catherine

Where's Waldo? Or should it be 'Where's Frank?'

One of the very first bricks on the pathway to the multipurpose room

The IHA Family Award proudly on display

Happy Father's Day

Happy Father's Day from Elvis

Alison procured this incredible flag to hang for the "holiday".

Choo Choo

Catherine training to be a train engineer

Graduation Day Part 2

The third weekend in May was a very busy time for us.  First Maryellen had her graduation.  Since her graduating class at TCNJ was so large they had a graduation ceremony on the football field for everyone on Thursday and then Friday everyone broke off into their specific field for a more intimate ceremony.  She now holds a BS in both Biology and Psychology.  Next Jon, Maryellen's boyfriend, had his graduation on Sunday.  He graduated from Rutgers with a BS in Criminal Justice.  Also that weekend was Robert Louis' baptism, post about that to follow at a later date.

Congratulations Jon and Mel!

Catherine attempts to photobomb this picture

Dancing Machine

Alison is always looking for fun activities to do with Jackie, and the Bridgewater Library usually delivers the goods a few times a month. Today was a toddler dancing activity, Jackie appears to have had a ball.

CGT 2 Months

Catherine Grace wanted everyone to know that she is two months old today. She's such a happy baby.

Getting back into the swing of things...

For the one or two regular readers, who are actually just family members and a phone call away, I'm sorry for the long layoff. I had stuff to talk about, but just needed a sabbatical from the blog. Not like it's an especially onerous task to whip up a few posts a week that feature mostly pictures and videos of my kids doing cute things, but for whatever reason I just didn't have the motivation to follow through with it. We are back now, with a back log of stuff to write about, and I think the wife is going to be helping with a few more of these posts from time to time. She is the boots on the ground so to speak, being home with the dynamic duo of Jackie and Catherine most of the time, so expect her to dash off a quick post now and again whenever they do anything fun.