Dr. Mike!!

After 7 1/2 years of hard work, blood, sweat, tears, late nights, early mornings, moving to Colorado, running a marathon, having insomnia, breaking a few toes, moving back from Colorado and then going back to Colorado to do more measurements, writing a 160+ page dissertation, developing a 50+ slide powerpoint presentation, adopting a beautiful boy, and climbing a volcano, (did I leave anything out?), Mike McKinley finally graduated from Georgia Tech!!!

For those who missed the exciting moment, I've included it here for you. :)
Photo Sharing - Video Sharing - Photo Printing - Photo BooksMike's parents and sister flew down from Spokane, Washington and Sun Valley, Idaho, respectively, for the occasion. My uncle Jerry and aunt Betty flew down from Cincinnati too! We were very blessed to have so many loved ones share this special weekend with us. :)

Here's a good one:
Mike: Ouch! I don't think the straight pin is supposed to go IN my head, honey.
Susan: Oh honey, just hold still, the blood won't show through the cap!

Wait, this one is probably better. :-D
He did it! He did it!!! Yahoooo!!!! (can you tell I'm proud? :-D)Betty and Jerry saluting Dr. Mike! We're all happy to smile for the camera, as Kaden looks off in the distance having some deep, existential thoughts I would guess...Kaden was diggin' the tassel.As shocking as this is to believe, it appears that Kaden preferred going to the Varsity over sitting in a 3 hour graduation for 800 students. Go figure...

Here he's enjoying his "naked dawg" with Aunt Susan. :)

Mike did great and then several of us went to Ippolito's (yum!) for a cheesy, meaty, pasta celebration! On Saturday we had a brunch at my brother's house that was a lot of fun. I'll include pictures of that PLUS my surprise gift to Mike in my next post! (ha!)

Kaden's Mom and Dr. Mike's wife :)