He DID IT !! Erick Graduates!

 

Can a momma be any more proud?! Nope. I'm pretty sure i am proud up to the moon...even though I should not be prideful, this is a different kind. The kind that makes you wanna sit back with that little conversation bubble over your head with stuff like "He actually passed English" floating in that little conversation cloud. Woo-Hoo! 13 years in the making people. And it seems like yesterday when he would recite to anyone and everyone "I possess a great deal of knowledge". He was 4. He knew, and we knew he wold be going to college someday. And that someday is nearly here. He was accepted at the University of Montana and starts in the fall.

 

Here is his graduating class. Sorry for the so far away shot...we were sitting,...well standing actually up in the balcony with the band. Never enough seats in the Inferno.

 

There go the CAPS, yay, almost over.

++PICTURE REMOVED AT THE REQUEST OF EX-GIRLFRIEND (?!!)++
(apparently moms can't document times in their childrens lives without offending someone ....2years later.....sheeesh

And the day wouldn't be complete without a picture of Rachel and Erick. Young love - awww! Rachel is his girlfriend who has been around since the days of stomach flu on the speech bus back from the tournament. She let him use her blankie. The rest is history. She is wonderful and we hope she'll be around for a long time to come!

And these are THE BOYZ. The same boys that raid my cupboards on a daily basis and play video games in my basement after school so frequently.

Erick's best bud Richard (the one NOT in the dorky cap & gown) transferred to Hamilton 2 years back, and graduated from that rival school 1 week earlier than our boys. Erick has known Richard since he first came to Corvallis in 8th grade - the boy who brought his bible to school with him, and had the long hair. He's in a band, it's cool. When Rich moved on to Hamilton, Erick and Steven became the inseparables. Steven and Mike are best buddies so we inherited them all as our own. After all, they did COLLECTIVELY eat us out of house and home!
The last of our gang -not pictured here - is Robert. We couldn't find him for the pics but if you look close he is walking right behind in the picture of Erick and Rachel. That pretty much was the normal gang around these parts. Congrats Boyz! We are all so proud!