Monday, May 15, 2006

Happy First Mother's Day, Mom! (Happy Graduation, Too!)

Sunday was a big day for Dondi, as she graduated from The University of Texas at Arlington with her Master's of Professional Accounting.

We started the morning with some yardwork. (Yes, we know we should have gone to church, but Jordan was going to have a busy day, and there's only so much we can drag him to without really paying for it). Dondi had been working on getting leaves off our backyard (yep, we still had leaves) all week. She finished up a big batch Sunday (we had 28 bags for our trash men this morning). I mowed the front and backyard, and almost had enough grass to bail hay in the backyard.

We got cleaned up after the yardwork (it looks great) and headed up to The Sanford House, a local bed and breakfast to have a Mother's Day/Graduation brunch. It was delicious! The food included made-to-order omelettes, turkey, ham, Greek salad, pasta salad, caesar salad, salmon, wild rice, chicken, veggies, fruit (delicious pineapple), peach cobbler, cookies, bread pudding and more. Grammie D, Grampy, Aunt Deona and Monica, Aunt Cristina, Grandma and Grandpa all came to the brunch. Some pics from after we ate...




























After brunch, we headed home to rest for a couple of hours. At 5:30, Grandma, Grandpa and Aunt Cristina came over. Grandma and Grandpa were watching Jordan. Cristina and I were going to watch Dondi graduate.

From the car ride over...















That's a self-portrait from inside the car at about I-20 and Bowen Road.

Grammie D, Grampy, Aunt Deona and Monica joined Cristina and me at Texas Hall to watch Dondi graduate. Graduation at UTA is disorganized chaos, but the degree was conferred nontheless, so now it's official: the student loans are due next year. :-)

Some pics...

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