Happy 19th Birthday RaNae...

Although RaNae was in Idaho on her 19th Birthday, we celebrated at home with her before she left. We had Philly Cheesesteaks for dinner with onion rings, and a combination birthday cake of Strawberry and Funfetti.

I hate it when my kids aren't here for their birthdays, but I am so grateful for the time we have with them, being a family is so awesome.

RaNae is home....

RaNae is home from school, and of course the Wild Rumpus begins...


RaNae is famous for her flour fights, we were making Christmas cookies and at clean up time, all flour breaks loose...

Eggs anyone????

RaNae's roommate: "Hey, RaNae, check if the eggs are good"

RaNae: "Wait, how do you do that?"

RaNae's roommate: "You see if they float in water or not."

RaNae: "Oh, okay."

CRACK

Her roommate walks over to check on it...

RaNae: "Well, I guess they are old...they aren't floating."

RaNae's roommate: "You weren't supposed to crack them..."

RaNae's roommate posted this on Facebook. I thought it was hilarious. I didn't know the trick to see if the eggs are too old or not, but leave it to my sweet, naive daughter to crack the eggs first.

RaNae, I love you so much.

And P.S. RaNae, we have all done something of this sort, it is fun to laugh at it though...

Can we say "Fear of Heights"????

RaNae went "Rock Wall" climbing recently. I never thought she would do so, she does have a fear of heights. But even she rationalized that they are wearing safety ropes and there really wasn't much of a risk. She said she had lots of fun. I have to thank Sara for these pictures, I stole them off of her facebook pics. So, thanks Sara!!! Maybe you can come home RaNae and take Seth out climbing, he had a great time doing this at Cub Scout Camp, he thinks this looks "so totally awesome", so much to climb.

College Life....RaNae

RaNae seems to have adjusted to college life...here are some pictures I stole off of facebook...We miss you Nae!!!!

RaNae's dorm room....
Just kidding... Her living room...

Kitchen...

Bathroom...

Her bed...

Her desk...

RaNae, Sara and friends going to see Fame...

I am not sure why this turned out so small, but they had snow last week...

RaNae at work, it is her job to hold up all of the poles in Rexburg...

Sara and RaNae (RaNae is sporting her cop glasses)

RaNae, one of Sara's roommates, and some guy...

Leaving the nest...

I miss her already. She is not home very often anyway, between work and a social life, so I thought it wouldn't be much different. But, knowing she won't be home until Christmas makes a big difference. We love you Nae, have fun and be safe. Hugs and kisses- Mom

Goodbye breakfast, Aidan and RaNae

Kathy packing their van...

A possible stowaway... Idaho or Bust!!!

Final goodbye, unless you count the phone calls since...

Rock Island High School Graduation Ceremony 2009

She has officially graduated. Yes, I am sad, and still very proud of her and all she has done in her 4 years of high school. We were supposed to have her ceremony at the Stadium, but due to threat of rain, it was in the fieldhouse. Although it wasn't too hot on Sunday, it was very humid, and boy did we sweat!!!!

Here are some shots I got of her graduation, and her choir group sang as well... We were behind the choir, so you can't see RaNae, she is one of the short ones in front...but they sounded Great!

RaNae's Graduation Party

All I can say, "I am glad it is over!!!!" I am exhausted. We had a great turnout, even though we had lots of rain. We had friends from church come, teachers and friends from school, and of course our family (definitely immediate). How come no one else came? None of my brothers and sisters and their families showed up, oh well, Illinois must be too far. Ha ha! I really wish we could have had family come out, but I totally realize that is asking way too much. Here are a few shots that I caught as we were winding up the last few minutes. We had the party for RaNae , Caitlin Luthy, and Luke Wood. They set up a table with some of their accomplishments from High School, RaNae displayed her Musical and Play t-shirts, programs and t-shirts from some of her Choir performances, her Varsity Letter for Choir and medals for her choir competitions, academic awards and so forth. We had a taco bar, Whitey's Ice Cream (courtesy of RaNae (she works there)) and yummy cookie cakes. She graduates tomorrow. I can't believe it.

RaNae's Senior Recognition Night

RaNae had her Senior Recognition Night recently... She received the Illinois State Scholar award, and the Prairie State Scholar Award. They did a slide show of the Seniors and what their future plans were, somehow, RaNae got left off of the plans, I don't know maybe they couldn't find BYU-Idaho., oh well.

Pops concert...Get ready...

RaNae had her final concert for Choir this year, the Pops concert. It was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed the Chamber Choir's performances, they did an awesome job. RaNae has been in Chamber Choir for two years now(she started with the Symphonic Choir her Sophomore year), she has absolutely loved it. The Chamber Choir not only has classes during the day at school, they also have other practices and they perform all over the Quad City area during the school year. Here are two of the numbers they performed at the Pops concert. Their theme this year was Get Ready... from the song by the Temptations "Get Ready".

RaNae's Sr. Pictures

We took the rest of RaNae's Senior pictures yesterday. We had been waiting for better weather , you know warm not raining kind of days. We had fun, I don't think we took a bad picture, I included my absolute favorites. Just be glad I got tired of waiting for them to all load.