Loren Graduates!

Last week my little sister graduated!  Yep, I am starting to feel old.  Anyways, she is super smart and graduated with honors and was the a salutatorian.  Because of all this she had to give a little speech.  In my humble opinion I thought her speech was excellent and the best one ever.  She is obsessed with World War II and based her speech on one given by Dwight D. Eisenhower.  Once again, it was excellent.  I was so proud of her.
Addison’s bed time is 7:30, the graduation ceremony started at 7:30.  It took the whole row of family and many “puffs” to keep her entertained.


I still think it is crazy that Loren is off to college.  Chaser, is on a mission, Loren is done with high school and little baby Robin is now a senior.  I hate growing up.  I sincerely wish that we could all be kids again.   Anyways, I am excited to see what Loren will do with her life!
I was on the four-wheeler with Robin zipping around the farm.  We stopped near the alfalfa field and I looked across the farm.  The sprinklers were on in the field.  I love that sound.  I love turning on the water after moving all the pipes.  It is always so beautiful.  I  mentioned this to Robin that I miss moving pipe (if my dad reads this I am pretty sure I will placed on pipe moving duty when I come visit).  She said that she would love to miss it but doing it every day makes it hard.  I wanted to try and get a picture to capture the field, the sounds, the smell and everything but I never seemed to have my camera with me.  The point of this long story is that I love certain things about my hometown and that farm, and my parents and grandparents are the things that I love the most.  I am pretty sure that I was annoyed at my parents each time I had to go help on the farm but now I would not trade it for the world.  I learned a lot about how to work and play hard on that farm.
I only managed these pictures from the farm.  Addison was not a huge fan of the horse and would latch onto me when I tried to help her pet it.