8th Grade Graduation

  Caleb"graduated" from middle school tonight even though school has another week to go.  We went to Inside Scoop for dinner before the ceremony.  I begged him not to get anything on his pretty clothes!  We dropped him off at 6pm at the school, picked up some library books, got him a balloon from the store and then tried to find a parking place in the sea of cars covering every spot and then some at the school.  It was pretty warm in that gym and there were lots of kids and lots of awards so it took about an hour and half.  Kyle was pretty good just restless so we took turns holding him and then Don took him down to walk him around toward the end.  There was a cute but long slide show of the kids where they morphed them from their baby pictures to their recent school picture.  It was so cute to see all these kids as babies!  It almost made a little sad especially because we have been here so long that I know most of the kids because Caleb has grown up with them. Caleb was not super thrilled about going but it is a milestone and the boys each escorted a girl down to their seats so if he would not have gone there would have been a girl without an escort.  After the graduation we came home and played dumb like we didn't get him anything while we waited for grandma and grandpa to get back from Mesquite with his new bike.  Connor got a new bike last year for his 8th grade graduation and Caleb said that he wanted one too.  He even asked his dad if he was going to get one tonight and Don just played it off like we hadn't had any time.  He was pretty excited to see that bike.  Grandma and Grandpa gave him $40 as a gift too.  Grandma was a little disappointed that she didn't know about the graduation but we did talk to grandpa about it last night and he said that they couldn't go because they had to work so we just figured he talked to grandma.  She said that she didn't know about it until they were on their way to Mesquite.  Sorry grandma!  We will have another high schooler come fall!