Back to school

KateLyn and Weston finished their first week of school on Friday.  So far they seem to love their classes and they seem to be settling in nicely.  KateLyn is now in 10th grade and Weston is in 7th.  Jordan started a new job at Boyd Gaming in Tech support.  He will also be back at UNLV this semester for school.  His girlfriend, Ashlee moved to Arizona but they still manage to make time to see each other on weekends.  Tyler will be leaving Germany in 25 days and heading to Oklahoma where he will be stationed for the next three years in the Air Force.  Bryce and TorriLyn are taking the semester off since their new baby is due the same week as finals.  Here are some recent pictures of the kids.

Dinner after graduation

We let Jordan choose where he wanted to eat after graduation and he decided on Bahama Breeze.  

This picture was taken from the Thomas and Mack steps after graduation.

Jordan rode with me and loved taking pictures of everything we passed. 

Jordan's Graduation

Jordan earned his AS in Computing and Information Technology from the College of Southern Nevada just one year after finishing high school.  We thought this was an awesome accomplishment so we encouraged him to attend his graduation.  It was quite an ordeal to actually get him into the car (since he thought it was stupid).  He kept telling us he would be continuing his education and earning a Bachelors and Masters degree so he thought getting an Associate degree was dumb.  I finally left for the graduation with Kate and Weston and left Russ and Joe home.  It took some talking but Russ finally urged him into the car and he barely made it with five minutes to spare.  Afterwards, he came up and thanked me for making him go and told me he thought it was pretty cool after all.  What do I know...I'm just the mom!

The graduation was short and sweet and to the point.

Torri and Bryce came straight from work to the graduation.

Jordan's Birthday

Since Jordan spent his Birthday in Seattle and Montana this year, we decided to celebrate when he came home. Jordan loves Olive Garden but there was an hour wait. We talked him into going to dinner across the street at Outback Steakhouse. It wasn't Olive Garden but I think it was a close second.

Afterwards, we came home and opened presents and had cake and ice cream.  

Jordan was pleasantly surprised to get a new guitar. 

I've never seen a smile that big on Jordan before.  

He played...

And played...

AND PLAYED!  All night until his fingers were bleeding. 

These pictures were taken at dinner. 

Sunday June 6, 2010 Jordan's Graduation Party

We were finally in bed at 2:30 am the night of the wedding only to be back awake at 6:30 to get ready for Jordan's graduation party. Since most of our family would be heading home that day and would be unable to attend Jordan's graduation (thanks to Torri and planning her wedding 5 days before graduation) we decided to have a BBQ/party. We ended up having 81 people in my house that day...it was more than crazy! Even the newlyweds came to the party before heading out of town on their honeymoon.

Computer geek at work

The Xbox died! The boys in my house were not happy campers and Jordan would not accept defeat. He got on his lap top and decided to figure out how to fix it. I was not a happy camper when I came home and there were tools & video hardware all over my kitchen table. Jordan worked on it for several hours but he he couldn't quite fix it.  The GPU died...the guys with have to start their 12 step recovery process tomorrow because their addiction to this machine is unnatural.  Jordan says I don't understand because I'm just a mom.  I'm not sure what that means but it doesn't sound good.