Lots of catching up to do...

Hi girls!

Ok I have been such a bad contributor...I am so so so sorry. Let's see if I can do a little catching up!

These first two pictures are of my small group girls...we have a group of seven couples (just started it this past fall), and it has been SUCH a huge blessing! I love these men and women so much. Brad and I are the youngest, and most have multiple kids (and some older too...3rd grade I think is the oldest?), but they are so fun and we've already learned a ton from being around them. Anyway, we girls decided to treat ourselves to pedicures for Mother's Day (nice, huh!). We meant to get a group shot at dinner afterward, but totally forgot. But here are a couple of "action" shots...

Deborah and Kristin - drying their toes :)

(From left to right) Beth, Rachael (Morley...most of you probably remember Steve and Rachael), Lisa, and Sarah (Sarah is the wife of Brad's cousin Ben...I think I've mentioned them before...their son Hutson was born two days before Max)

That was Friday night, after Brad and I took the day off work and went shopping in Indy. We actually didn't do much shopping, but rather looking :) It was so fun.

And then Saturday was Brad's graduation!!!! He now has his Master's in Sports Administration and Higher Education from Ball State. Now, on to the sad story about the day...

Since it's Ball State, and Brad really didn't get to know the people in his program (they all took different classes at different times), he didn't care too much about commencement. But I encouraged him to go, because it's a big deal! And a once-in-a-lifetime experience. So he finally agreed, bought the regalia, etc. But never really got a lot of communication about the actual ceremony. Plus, they do a huge one in the morning, and then in the afternoon the individual departments actually award the degrees...so we decided to just go in the afternoon. But because of weather, Brad kept hearing it might be 3:00, or 4:00. The final word he heard Friday night was that it was 4:00. So, we (Brad, me, Max, Brad's parents and sister), arrive at 3:20, walked in, and it had already started! I quick grabbed a commencement booklet, only to find the section Brad was in happened to be first, so we had already missed it. It was SO SAD! We were hoping maybe he could just slip in, but we were too late. Here's a picture of his department's graduation:


So, we headed off to Scotty's Brewhouse (our favorite restaurant! If you haven't been there yet, you MUST next time you come to town...it's a couple blocks away from BSU)


I love that one of Max with Kelli - great smile :)

Mother's Day was great, except we were all a little sick...Max has had a cold for a few days, and Brad and I really started coming down with it yesterday. So thankfully Colleen (Brad's mom) took a few pictures, because I didn't even think of it. But it was a good day. Brad's cousin got married in Indy last night, so that made for a slightly odd Mother's Day, but that's ok. It was still fun to go with his family.

Sometime this week I will post pictures of my parents' new house! It is REALLY coming along! I think it is still set to be finished at the end of August, but on the outside it looks just great. They actually are driving down as I type! They'll be here for 2 weeks :)

Well, I'm sure I'm leaving out a bunch of stuff, but this probably more than you all wanted to read for right now anyway!

Hope you're all having a lovely day. Love and miss you all.

Love Kelly