First, we had a party Friday night for Shay. She graduated on Saturday and we knew she would be going out with her friends partying so we threw her a party one day early. It was mostly Family and close friends, and a few of her other friends. We cooked a lot of food on the grill. It was a great time. Here are a few photos from Friday night:

There were several more photos and peoples, but those will give you the gist of Friday night. The next morning we slept in just a bit. When we finally did roll out of bed we had to get ready for another graduation party at Tim’s house (Tim is Shay’s ‘boyfriend’). His mother cooked a ton of food too, so this is day two of eating way too much! Much fun though, and the start of the emotions for Marla! Here are some photos of that as well:

Shay and Tim left for graduation (last photo above) so we all said our goodbyes and left for home to change for the actual ceremony at TCU. IJ won’t bore you with all the details in writing…i’ll just post the photos of the actual graduation (limited because you know Mom/Marla took a million of these!!):

And then of course, there were several photos after it was over outside. hot as hell out there too!!!

We didn’t get home until 9:30 (maybe a little later than that) and waited for everyone to start showing back up as they fought through traffic to get back to the house. We sat outside and talked, drank some beers, and had a good time while Shay went out with her friends and I am sure partied her little butt off! That’s what I did when I graduated so I wouldn’t expect anything less.

We got up Sunday to get ready to go with Tammy (our neighbor) to her fathers birthday out on their land. Marla hasn’t loaded any of those photos yet, but when she does I will post those too…but in a nutshell, we yet again had a ton of food (chicken and ribs on the grill…and i didn’t have to cook!!!). Later that afternoon the kids got to ride horses. Marla even got on for a short ride as well. Once we got home we were so tired everyone just went to bed. phew!!!

Sunday we spent the afternoon relaxing for the most part. My Dad came over to cook Hamburgers and Hot Dogs…and let me tell ya, these have to be the best burgers I have cooked to date! I did have this photo of them. After the kids went to bed, Dad left, all weekend phone calls, etc were over…Marla and I sat outside for a couple hrs and just talked, got a little tipsy, laughed our asses off over all the events of the weekend, then finally called it quits at midnight.

Yep, it was a very long and eventful weekend. Well worth it!

I hope they don’t mind, but I went ahead and posted the video of the first Video of the Series. Here’s the link to their pages though…Forgive & Live – Perry Noble

As long as they don’t send me a message, I’ll keep posting the videos here too.

Here are two promo vids they posted on the website created specific to this series.

iWantANewMarriage.com Promo from NewSpring Media on Vimeo

She was born at 6:33 PM on Friday, September 5, 2008. She weighed 9 pounds 4 ounces and was 21-3/4 inches long. I am sure both Randy and Kendra will blog about this much more than me, but I also know that they are both very tired and busy so I am posting this so that others can see for the time being.

I have to admit…she’s the best looking member of the Apodaca Family to date!