Danica's graduation and glimpses on her future

haha, gotten way behind with all my pics. We have been so busy the last 3 weeks. Danica had her big graduation on 6/11 and last weekend 6/18 was her party at the house. At the graduation 45,000 people watching, 11,000 students graduating, about 5000 walking. It took about close to 4 hours. What a huge university. We are so proud of Danica. I am constantly blown away that God has blessed me with such an amazing easy going kid. She makes me so happy.

Her adventure now continues to Germany and teach English for at least a year. (yes I am absolutely heart broken) She wants to immerse in the language and culture and hopes when she returns to only speak German to me, lol. Yes, really, I never taught Danica how to speak German for specific reasons. She will leave in September and stay with my parents until she finds her own place or stay with them. Her work place will not be further than an hour from all of my family there. That was Danica's decision as she felt she was going to be really home sick already.

So another big chapter of her life has finished and a new one is beginning, really soon.

U WA Seattle 6/11/2011

Danica's out of state guest, uncle Fred, Grandma Hill and Grandma Kurzbach

The little ones wanted a picture with Danica before bedtime

Danica's Department Graduation and 2 surprises for her

One week done, one more week to go. My Danica has graduated from the UWA Seattle over the weekend. The picture below are from the department graduation of her major. Her degree is in environmental studies. We are the proud of her.

The one thing Danica didn't know is that my mom and her uncle were coming. She was so excited.

My mom and Danica. My mom was sneaking upstairs were is was and surprised her.

Danica receiving her degree

Family from left to right. My mom, myself, Kevin, Danica, Uncle Fred, Kevin mom.

My mom with us

Danica and my mom, we call her Omi.

Misrak turns 8

June 6, 2011-8 years old

Misrak had a great birthday. Her and I had a nice breakfast after church at IHop. For dinner she wanted tortellini, baked beans, and chicken. You can tell she has been here over a year now because last year she wanted pizza rolls.

She picked a little kid digital camera as her birthday present and has been taking pics of everything including the wallpaper and jewelry.

Danica treated her to a pedicure to have some quality time with her also. Really nice day.

Kids are growing, all is well

I had Misrak's and Micah's one year appointment the other day. Misrak has grown exactly 4 inches and weighs nearly 50 pounds. Her and Biruk were the same in the beginning but she is taller and heavier than Biruk by a lot. Micah has grown just about 4 inches and weighs 30 pounds.

The endocrinologist is very pleased with Micah's growth. He is actually on a smalls dosage of growth hormones but he still grew more than he expected. He thinks that when he goes to Kindergarten next year he will not look so out of place anymore.

There is so much to say and so little time. I promise one day I will write about the 2 of them and how much they have blessed our family as our last additions to the family. I am in awe with them every single day. I couldn't have been more pleased.

In the mean time, I am trying to find time to breathe. Next week, we have families coming in from out of town for Danica college graduation and the weekend after that we have Danica's graduation party... As excited as I am for her I cannot wait until June 19 until its all over. Alright now, we are going to get through this:)

BTW, Susan if you are reading my post, I still cannot comment on your blog... Ugh, its driving me crazy.