Happy Memorial Day!

Yesterday, to celebrate Memorial Day and Kathryn's graduation, we had a party at my mom's farm. Lots of people came, including a ton of people we didn't know (like friends of my mom's and Mike's), but a bunch of friends that we did know came. Chaos the dog and Georgia Roo the dog came, and they played and played. Peter came and Miguel came. Jeff, Mary, Collin, and Marryn Adams came. My nephews, Nolan and Ezra, came. Our little baby niece and nephew, Payton and Leland, came. And all my brothers and sisters came too! It was awesome!

We played in the lake and Collin did magic tricks for my brother Jacob, who spent the rest of the afternoon trying to figure them out! Miguel taught Collin how to play soccer better! We all played baseball and the kids shot off foam rockets into the air so they could chase them. We had two canoes and two kayaks and lots of floating pool toys, like tubes and rafts and stuff! The kids all went out in kayaks and canoes and had a blast rowing around the island and back. Chaos and Georgia Roo swam with the kids and chased sticks out into the water.

Kathryn made this insane cake - an eagle named Gus Gus. Her school mascot at Georgia Southern University was an eagle so she made the cake to be like her mascot! She made the head out of blueberry muffin because Peter won't eat desserts and it was the only way he would eat any cake at all (if it was muffin instead of cake). The rest of the cake was a mix between yellow and chocolage cake in lots of layers. The eagle even had two wings and a tail that held together! It was quite impressive!


Kathryn's big present for graduation was a trip to Discovery Cove at Sea World! She is going to do the Trainer for a Day program which allows her to spend an extended time swimming with dolphins and trainers and learning about how to train dolphins. She'll get to ride the dolphins and do tricks with them! This is a picture of her reading the certificate for the trip! A lot of people joined in together to get her this present - my grandparents, my stepmom Diane, my parents, and her friend Caitlin! She was SOOOOO excited and so surprised! She can't wait to go. I'm going with her and hopefully her friend Caitlin is going too!


Here are more pictures from the party - kayaking, playing in the water, baby Payton, me and baby Leland, and an exhausted Georgia Roo trying to sleep!