.. a graduate ..

alright so here is the schpeal {yep a made up word, deal with it}. i feel old. my baby brother, although i have to admit he doesn't look very little any more, graduated from high school. um WHAT?!?! i am 10 years older than him, so this was like a sucker punch to the face watching him walk across the stage and call high school quits. This handsome dude has officially joined the ranks of adult, his announcement {which you can see here} turned out awesome and he wasn't even phased by it. 

{cody and I at graduation, right before cody blew the air horn we smuggled into the arena}

{ his party, graduation cap and him at his graduation - he is in the center with the slightly orange cap}

congrats J* we are super proud of you and your goals!!

oh and don't you worry we did get him a rocking graduation present. we took him to washington dc, which you can see here. 

.. graduate ..

i was able to do graduation invites for a family member recently and they were also so fun! we were going for masculine but something people hadn't seen before. kinda rad right? 

don't you worry there will be a graduation post to follow :)

.. meet the graduate ..

alright so i am like 3 weeks behind on this. i suck as a wife sometimes. right now is one of them. lame. i have been updating my food / diet / gym / whatever blog (click here if you want to take a peek) almost everyday and i forgot that i had another two blogs to update. wow. alright. so on april 28th my hot hunk of a husband walked across the stage and got his diploma. it was definitely a family affair and he loved it every single minute of it. here are a few pictures from that day.. 

{the front door that i decorated for him }

{cody and his dad and brother}

{cody and i}

{ cody and his aunt donna }                                                                  

{cody and his mom and step dad, don't mind that she looks upset, she had just finished crying.}

{cody with my brother and parents and me }

{cody and his grandma ruth}

                  {girl sandwich anyone?}

he looked so great and his department was fantastic. they gave all the pilots a set of wings to put on his stol, you can see it in the picture with his grandma, and they gave him the dr. seuss book oh the places you"ll go. and of course an empty leather folder for when they mail his diploma to us. ha ha. 

congrats cody on your big day. i was so proud of you, i might have even misted a bit. MAYBE. i am so proud of you making a choice to be great at something and doing it. hopefully our kids will get those genes. congrats graduate. 

now that he is graduated i am sure you are all wondering what he will do. or maybe you don't care, but i am going to tell you anyway. HA!

he is still doing a few more flights before he is officially done, only about a month or so. after finishing this off he is going to do his CFI training (certified flight instructor) and start taking on students. since the industry requires 1500 - 2000 hours of flight time before considering you for a job, we got a long way to go. when he is done with his personal training he will have 250 hours. ba ha ha, we will be in school forever. he plans on working there with students building hours and still working at delta on the weekends. then he is going to apply for the air force job again next spring in hopes to fly the kc-135 next year, if not then we will try and get a job with an airline. we got a while to go, but it will be amazing and i know he will do grand at it. 

.. there is light at the end of that tunnel ..

well, it is official. cody is graduating in april. he applied last week and couldn't be more excited. this is a big deal for us, cody is the only kid in his family to graduate from high school with a diploma and now the FIRST to graduate from college.

i couldn't be more proud of him and the work that he puts in to studying and making the most of school. he is an amazing guy, who when he decides he is going to do something he goes for it and wastes no time. he has been studying hard and working for this for a few years, and he is going to be an amazing pilot. so watch out world, there is a going to be a new graduate in your midst in a few short months!