The Last High School Graduate of My Generation...

My grandparents had 6 kids, one of which was my dad.  Belonging to those 6 kids are 12 grand kids, one of which is me.  I am the 4th oldest of the 12 grand kids.  We have all graduated high school, some of us have married and some of us even have babies of our own.  But on June 10th, the baby of our generation graduated from Clayton High School.

Since Deuce and I were already down here working, we headed over to Clayton to meet Pop and the rest of the family before the graduation started.  Ed & TJ met us at the school.  After the ceremony, we went back to my Aunt Rhonda's house for a graduation party to celebrate.  Jami graduated with honors and is headed to St. John's University in New York City this fall.  We are so excited for her and so proud of her!

 seriously, she's the tall blonde {that obviously comes from her dad's side and not the Edgerton's because all of thsoe genes missed me - the tall, the skinny, the blonde - you get the idea}.

 pointing at Jami Grace with Pop.

 "Jami Grace Berube"

 Class of 2011

 the graduate with her gift from us

{tutorial on that later}

yea! i love jami!!

Meeting of the Cousins

Here are some more pictures from our trip to Tennessee.  We spent the remainder of the trip visiting with family.  Actually I didn't leave Aunt Rita's house from when we got home from the basketball game on Friday until we left on Sunday morning.  Ed & TJ went to play basketball on Saturday.  It was so nice to be around my family, be a grungy mess and not have anywhere to be or anything to do.

This is Chris with his cousin Jaycie.  He is just 6 days older than her.  This is their 2nd time meeting.  They were sharing a hug.

 Jaycie gave him a quick peck on the cheek.  I caught it but didn't have time to focus it... sad.

Playing in one of the play rooms with Ricky.

Jaycie made her way over to Deuce & Ricky.

 Deuce's first New Year's.  He loves his cousin Chanler!

 Uncle Jeff

 Yeah he's up and awake for his first New Year's. 
There was just so much excitement at the house!

 With his cousin Jami Grace

 With his cousin Haley.  This was their first meeting and she loved him!

 TJ with some of his "new" cousins, as he calls them.  They belong to my cousin Robby & his wife Ashley and it was the first time TJ had met them.

Carter - 2, Haley - 5, TJ - 8, Dylan - 9 & Hayden - 6

 The boys had a good time playing pool & Wii together.

 Y'all he is so close to crawling!  He rocks back and forth and locks out his legs in a push up position and then hops his knees under him.  He gets where he wants to go but it takes him a while and some rolling over and he gets frustrated.  ANY DAY now he is just going to take off!

 He loved Aunt Rita's Christmas tree.

 He enjoyed their hardwoods too because it was easy to slide everywhere.  He rolled his way from the tree down the hall where he was playing peek-a-boo with me.

 Time for night-night in his new jammies Auntie gave him for Christmas.