What a great 48! B’s the Man!
May 26, 2008 by admin
Memorial Day Monday morning – raining and dreary in Casper, Wyoming. However, the previous 48 hours were absolutely as rewarding as anything I have experienced.
Drove to Fort Collins Friday afternoon (in wind and rain) with Rebecca, BGE, and Ryan. Had a nice visit on the way down and thoroighly enjoyed getting a little time with them. And as you might expect, BGE is awesome.
Upon arrival we drove directly to Fossil Ridge High School for an event I was not familiar wirh called a "capping ceremony". Each grad picked someone (non-parent) to honor with a short piece about how influential that person had been on their life – they then simply "capped" them, placed their graduation cap on the student in a brief ceremony. Well, B picked a natural – he and I share that influential person and that is one thing nobody will ever be able to take away from us. B honored his Grandma Vickie. There is not a soul more deserving. That is one caring, loving, dedicated, Christian woman and members of our family and friends are truly blessed with her. B – you sure got that one right my man!
Saturday was awesome – beautiful morning – 8 AM sharp the ceremony started. Second one across the stage was the Senior Class Vice president, the B! The B also had the honor of leading his class in moving the tassel and in pronouncing them Grads – followed by the long awaited tossing of the caps! You did us all proud and you da’ man B!
The remainder of Saturday was remarkable. Wendy & Tony hosted family and friends at a picnic – open house type affair at their home. In addition to the Lecher family and a host of friends Vickie and I had the absolute joy of seeing all of our children and all of their children(except Spencer, Megan, & Abbey) in the same place. It was so neat. And yeah, I had tears in my eyes half the weekend – tears of pride and joy. Quite a crew. It’s really something to experience and I definitely hope we can do it more often – even though it is really difficult to bring that many individual lives to the same point at the same time. Leave it to B – he generates that much love no problemo.
We then drove back early yesterday afternoon – had great weather coming back but it was getting cloudy when we got here and it has rained all night long. The other nice thing that happened while we were there is that my Fathers Day gift from the Pugs kicked in and my lawn got mowed while i was there. That was truly a welcome sight and it is nice not to have to sit here this morning wondering how long it will be until it quits raining and gets dry enough for me to bail the stuff.
Well – Nate is next! Then we get a break of a year or two and then it’s Ashley & Spencer! Maybe we will have a few of these opportunities in the next few years.
Anyway – an outstanding weekend spent with all my children and practically all of my grandchildren! A true phenom! God has blessed us and that’s a fact. And the B is a young man with a huge world at his doorstep. It will be exciting to see where he carves his niche. There is not much that isn’t open to him – GO GET ‘EM B ….. YOU DA’ MAN!
The Dad
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