Graduation

Hola!

I have done a pretty poor job of keeping up with our family blog!  I am, however, staying on top of David's mission blog...I will make a better attempt at doing both :)

intricate wood carvings

We had a great week, with 3 grandparents here, for Teresa's high school graduation!  I'm so glad they were all willing to make it work.  It is a very "eventful" time of year, and we so appreciate the support of Grammie D, Poppa Dave and Grandma Kay.

They all were supposed to come the same day, but the Whitesells' flight got delayed and changed, so they got to come into Boston by way of Wisconsin (?!?!?!), about 8 hours late.  So Frank picked them up at midnight.  Blah.

this "quilt" is carved from wood! Not joking.

Jenga!!

Boston Temple

We did get to go to the temple the next morning, and had some family names on both the Whitesell side and on the Webb side.
 It was so nice, to go to that peaceful place, and think about family and our ancestors a few generations back.

I was tutoring the next day, so Frank took them to Salem for an awesome museum visit and a walking tour of the town.  They mentioned the witch trials briefly, but there's so much more rich history of that place!  And they did, actually, film a couple of episodes of Bewitched there in the 1970's, so they have a statue of Elizabeth Montgomery commemorating that.

Teresa w/favorite teacher Ms. Lehmann

Teresa had lots of activities every day and almost every night, so we didn't really see her much.  But we played some games, had 1 or 2 dinners together, and there was a yummy banana cream pie by the combined efforts of Grammie D and Grandma Kay!

Banana Cream Pie with meringue :)

Sis picture, after the ceremony :)

And of course went to the graduation ceremony on Sunday afternoon.

It was a little stressful, watching the weather for the 10 days before.  If it was going to rain and they needed to move the ceremony inside, that would mean fewer people could go.  4 tickets per graduate, and we would have had to scramble to find some more tickets!  Angela came too.  This summer she's in an apartment in Boston, working a couple of part-time marketing internships.

So, here are a few pictures of our graduate:

Teresa & Astronomy tchr Mr. Rideout, with Sam photobombing