Graduation!!

The Day Before Graduation

 The night before graduation we went to the graduation banquet.  It was neat hearing more about Michael's class and most of all having a nice date with my wonderful husband.

 Thursday morning Alden and Calvin were treated with a yummy breakfast of smiley face pancakes.  They loved them!

Morning of Graduation

 We decided to move all of our stuff out of our storage unit on Friday morning before graduation.  It ended up working out really well.  With all of the great helpers we were able to get the truck all loaded in less than 2 hours!!

 Alden and Calvin were big helpers with the move.  Alden especially was a big help always finding things he could carry even if they were as big as him.  As people brought stuff out to the truck he kept telling them, "good job, guys", "thank you".  It was cute to see how much he got into the whole move.  Calvin liked running on the ramp, and getting rides on the cart, but he took at least one or two things into the truck.

 Above is a picture of Alden and Calvin standing in our empty storage unit, and below all of us trying to figure out how best to put it all in the truck.

Graduation

Beginning of May

 This was a day at Liberty Park, we all love going to Liberty Park, to run, play, visit the aviary, or go for a walk.  We love that it is starting to warm up and that we can spend many days at the park!

Calvin is 20 months old.  He still is our little snuggler, and is still our little sweet one.  He is saying more and more words, which we love.  Now that he can tell us what he wants and knows that we know what he wants, he throws more fits when he doesn't get what he wants. He is our big helper and loves cleaning up.  He is at a fun stage right now.

Alden is 3 and a 1/2, there is a new babysitter at the school with a daughter Alden's age, he has loved having her to play with on kindergarten days and is still doing well in pre-school.  I often forget how young he still is, I expect so much out of him.  When Michael and I were in Arizona looking at areas, and doing job interviews, I would talk to the boys on the phone, it made me realize how young they are with there sweet little voices.

This month has been and will continue to be an exciting month for us.  At the beginning of May we decided on which job to take.  We decided to take the one in Tucson, AZ so we will be headed there the end of this month/ or the beginning of June.
Michael will finish up his internship this week.   This next week in May we will be flying out to Memphis for graduation, and loading up all of our things that we have in storage there.  Michael with his parents will drive our things to Arizona.  The boys and I will come back to do the last week of school.  Michael will come back here, we will do a few things with family and then move to our home in Arizona.  We will miss being here with family but we are excited to start this next phase of our life.

Alden and his Duck

 A few weeks ago we were on a walk and heard some squawking  we wondered what it was and then this duck ran across the street to us.  He followed Alden home and then followed him everywhere! They played football together, played in the sand box together, went on walks, etc.  Every time Alden would come inside the duck would squawk for a long while then go to his little spot under the deck, or one under a bush.  Every morning as soon as he saw the light in the kitchen he would come right up by the kitchen door squawking for Alden to come out and play.
The boys loved having the duck, after a little over a week we lost him though.  We are pretty sure a cat got him, we found duck feathers in the back yard. We wish we could have protected him better but we didn't want to en-cage him.  So that is the story of the duck.  When we would ask Alden the ducks name he would say, "Just Duck".  We sure liked having Just Duck around.