Beautiful

The face says it all.....

 

Dear Parents,
I hate your stinkin' guts for making me ride in the car for 10 1/2 hours. But at least I can watch Wonderpets and Cars.
Love,
Maya

Indiana

 

Maya in the field behind Grandpa and Grandma's house

 

Maya playing

 

Evan and Grandpa

 

Grandpa, Grandma, Evan and Maya walking back to the lake behind their house

The week after graduation, we went up to see Evan's family in Indiana. It's a long drive up there, but thanks to the miracle of a portable dvd player and the movie cars, we made it! Maya loved seeing all the animals, bunnies, cats and birds, and we were able to walk back to the lake behind Evan's parents house. It was gorgeous, everything is so green and beautiful. We saw Evan's sister and her family and Evan's aunt and uncle and grandparens. We took lots of walks, and ate great food.

Grandpa and Grandma

 

Maya and Grandpa watching Wonderpets, Maya's most favorite thing to watch. Grandpa would drift off to sleep and Maya would wander over to him and touch his arm or his cheek just to make sure.

 

"I DRIVE." Maya's newest phrase. This is all she ever wants to do now. Good thing Grandpa is nice and plays with me out in the car.

 

Grandma and Maya in her sandbox

My parents came out for Evan's graduation and we had the best time. They are so generous to come all the way out here, and fly into a close airport and then spend money on us! Thank you Mom and Dad for being so giving and supporting us! We loved having you here. We went to all the graduation festivities, Mom and I went walking several times, we hiked Crabtree Falls, ate and famous Five Guys, toured Lexington, and also had time to do a few projects. :) I had bought a sandbox for Maya at a little garage sale and then had no way of getting it home. Well a month later...we finally get around to getting it, and then we also got a "Buffaway" horse for Maya frome a friend. We fit Buffaway in the car and looked only slightly white trash taking it home. :) But I love my Dad because he just knows how to make everything work. He noticed that our hubcaps were peeling a little and so we bought a wire brush to scrub them, and then we painted them and it's like a whole new car! Thanks Dad! And thanks Mom for all the both of you do. We love you!

Graduation

 

Evan in his cap and gown

 

The 3 of us, Maya was not really into having any pics of her taken that day

 

The graduate and Maya Moo

 

The 3 of us with Professor Murchison, Evan's favorite Professor

We thought gradution day was such a long day off when we started law school in the fall of 2005, and now it's all over and done. I can't believe how quickly the time went. Graduation was fantastic, a whole weekend of festivities. At Washington and Lee they have a long-standing tradition to give out walking sticks to the law graduates. And we had fireworks and a band the night before graduation, which were amazing. So loud and close though that Maya cried and so she and I watched them from the car. :) Graduation day was so nice, the whole ceremony was only an hour and a half, heaven when you have a toddler and the speaker was William Webster, who was once director of the CIA and the FBI. Just a great way to celebrate the end of law school and wonderful memories we have of Lexington.

John Butler Trio

Since Amber is slacking and I have considerably more time on my hands, you have to put up with posts from me. This invariably means music. This next one is another great instrumental guitar piece. If you can get past the uber hippy dialog at the beginning, I think you'll really enjoy it.