Institute graduation

first of I have to say that I love these pictures.

Anna was sick and this was the beginning of the strange fever and headaches that would just show up and then go at random. I finally took her to the Emergency Room at Dell Children's hospital since I wanted her looked at by people who knew how to read kids since her symptoms were so odd.

Since she was not feeling well she had a really hard time with bladder control *AND in these pictures she pees on Jed! Priceless! Happy graduation Daddy!

Jed gave a talk at the ceremony and I already knew it was great because I had helped edit but I have heard him talk in the past and i can tell that he has gotten so much better up there in front of people and if that is how he is in the classroom then it is beyond me why he does not have school districts stocking him begging him to work for them. He did such an amazing job on this talk and I was so impressed and proud of him.

*She had gone through several out fits by the time we hid the end of the night. After this picture was taken we had to borrow clothes from some of the other people there because we had gone through the large stack of extras in the car. We had been there for some time before then because Jed cleans the institute building. It is a part time job that he has had for more than a year and it has been very helpful with that extra little paycheck during this last year of school since the student teaching had taken away most of his very little extra time to work. The whole family went with him to clean before the ceremony and Anna tore through the extra clothes. While we were there we also had quite the drama. A young man came in and very politely asked to use the phone. The building was closed to the public and it was just our little family. The only reason the door was unlocked was because Jed was getting ready to clean the front steps. As soon as you looked in his eyes you knew something was terribly wrong. He was dressed like a typical college kid you would expect in this part of town but his eyes were bloodshot and his face was covered in sweat. Jed told him that the building was closed and that he had to leave, he did not want to leave. He finally walked half way out the door then came back in and said he wanted to ask someone else. Jed followed him down the hall way and just kept telling him "we're closed and you have to leave" he finally got him to walk out the back door and again he would not let go of the door. Jed tells he have to let go of the door and then the man says"I do not like your attitude" Jed informs him that he does not care and pulls the door closed. Then the man goes berserk on the door kicking and kicking until the glass breaks screaming profanity. i had stayed with the kids not wanting them to follow him, so now I run down the hallway to see what is going on, Jed is already calling 911 as soon as he man sees he through the broken door he stops or maybe it is not my angelic inspiring aura that makes him act like he ought and he simply just gets tired of kicking the door, I like the first reason better though. He then walks down the stairs. I turn right around and lock the front door then i run to the door by the parking lot where the stairs will take him next and lock it then I watch as he wanders past tell all the kids to go hide in the bathroom, It was not until this point that they thought anything dangerous was happening they just thought it was all very weird. Jed comes out and watches at a distance as the man randomly wanders around on the street parking lot and at odd times takes of at a sprint just to stop again a few steps later, when he sees Jed the profanity and screaming begins again and he suddenly runs in the middle of the street and stops a car, then he takes of at a run down the street and we loose track of him. Just after that the cops show up. Turns out he asked the girls in the car to call the police and stay until they got here. When all was said and done we ended up filing charges and realized that those crappy low quality cameras on our cell phones would have come in very handy just then. Oh well. Then I had a long talk with the kids about why we do not do drugs and why we do not make friends with people who do drugs and if our friends start doing drugs we ditch them. Tough, but do we really want to be friends with people who act like that? Glad that they agreed that that was a really bad idea.