GRADUATION!!

HOORAY, SHANE HAS OFFICIALLY GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE! It has been a long time coming because he had to work 2 jobs and go to school to provide for our family. I am SO grateful for his hardwork and sacrificing sleep to work hard at both his jobs and at school. Now, onto putting in resumes for fulltime jobs so we can officially feel like grown ups.

Shane decided that he didn't want to attend the graduation ceremony that was being held. He didn't want to spend the money on renting the cap and gown and also thought about me having to struggle keeping 2 little, active boys quiet during the ceremony. So, instead we celebrated as a family on the DU campus on the day of Graduation. We had such a wonderful day together as a family.

We had a picnic right in the middle of campus! We forgot out picnic blanket and the grass was a bit damp so we went to the bookstore and purchased a blanket! We HAVE to have something DU amongst all the CU appeal I have!

Declan is in love with fruit and was pounding down the raspberries and blueberries.

Declan was sharing his raspberries with Corin.

Declan loves chewing on celery and he loves spoons even more!

Declan usually doesn't like to walk around in grass because of the uneven surface, but today he was EVERYWHERE! He carried around the spoon and celery the whole time, well until the celery just because a stringy mess, but still had to get it from him and put in into the trash descreetly. The spoon he finally dropped and I was able to trash that descreetly as well.

After lunch we played baseball! Corin wanted to be the pitcher the whole time. He had so much fun throwing the ball so we could hit it and going to chase it. We didn't have bases so we just pretended to run the bases and he loved chasing after us with the ball to tag us to be out.

After a fun game of baseball. We walked around campus. Corin got a bit confused about all the buildings being Daddy's school. Shane however had most of his classes in Sturm Hall, so we decided that was Daddy's school.

The building was open, so we went inside and Corin enjoyed walking around and sitting in some of the different classrooms Shane had classes in.

These two may have to be seperated

Corin wanted to be the teacher

We walked to the Richie Center where Magness Arena

They have these stone lips outside the Richie Center which, when they are one "speak", unfortunately they weren't on so we couldn't hear them. Corin thought it was funny that there were just lips outside.

Declan had a great time running around inside while Corin went to the bathroom with Shane.

Then, it was dessert time!! We went to Ben and Jerry's that is just across the street from campus.

Corin got Phish Food! He LOVES chocolate just like his parents and thought it was fun to have chocolate fish in it as well.

Shane shared his with Declan. I tried, but Declan didn't like it at all. It was called Chocolate Therapy. I think it was too rich for him. Declan would get angry that Shane wasn't giving it to him fast enough or taking a bit himself

It was a wonderful day!