She did it!

We all went out to dinner to celebrate Jarika's graduation. She chose to go to Chili's so I used their call ahead service to get us a table. My mom was convinced that this wasn't going to work. While we were waiting for them to finish clearing our table a random number shows up on my cell. My mom was about 15 minutes late so I knew it was her using someone's phone since she NEVER has hers on her or has it charged! Yep, it was her. She was quite pissed (excuse my lang. but she was!) that she was at the restaurant and they don't use call ahead service and she was on the patio putting tables together for us. I told her "Mom, they are clearing our table right now and Chili's doesn't have a patio!" mom, "Well I'm here, I'll come inside." A little while later as we all decided that my mom was indeed at the wrong restaurant my phone rings again. "I'm at Cheddar's I'll be down in a minute." I think the funniest thing about the whole thing was the fact that when Jarika realized mom was late she said she was hoping that she was just stuck in traffic. Scott said "Stuck in the traffic at Cheddar's?" He totally nailed that one huh?? Those of you who read this blog and know my mom it says a lot huh?

Jarika was so excited about her gifts. My mom got her a new laptop for college. We got her a cute pink and black backpack/laptop case to go with it. She thought it was perfect!
I think you can tell how surprised she was about our biggest gift to her. She got a Garmin! Many of you know that Jarika has severe anxiety and getting lost terrifies her! She did get lost one time coming back from Joplin last summer (that's where she's going to college). So we thought one perfect way to ease her fears was to give her a GPS. Now my precious girl can always find her way home!


Graduation went very well. It was quite sad though, a classmate of Jarika's died tragically on Friday night. I'm not sure of details but drinking was involved. Please pray for the Stewart family, this has got to be immensely difficult for them.

We couldn't get very good pictures. We had my zoom lens and you have to be totally motionless for the pix to be clear and we forgot the tripod so most of our pix are worthless, but here ya go, congrats Jarika we are so proud of you!

Jarika, Chelsea and Katie

Walking in her with her friend, Phoebe.

Getting some help up the stairs. I was totally cracking up at the poor girls that thought it was wise to wear heels! That's totally out for Jarika due to her ankle surgeries!

Getting her diploma!

Getting a hug from Mrs. Hibbs, the principal. Mrs. Hibbs is retiring this year so all of the kids handed her golf tees as they shook her hand. She plans on playing a lot of golf now!

Blurry, but here is the graduate!