Shelby the Grad

Can you believe it?

This guy graduated!!  Our little bro is all growed up!  Congrats, grad :)

To celebrate, we invited our Montana relatives down and had some fun!  First we decided to go bowling...

Next, we all met up at the local Mandarin Garden for some tasty Chinese food!

A mommy/daughter shot

I'm so cute!

The proud grandpas with Avril.  I hope they give her enough attention :)

Look how happy he is to be done!

The highlight of the night was sitting through the entertaining and exciting process of calling out the names of all Shelby's classmates during the graduation ceremony (insert sarcasm here).  yawn.  With a last name like Yarger, you can expect you'll be sitting for a loooong time before your name gets called.  Jesse wasn't sure if they were going in alphabetical order, or by order of GPA.  Hmmm... Shelby was almost dead last.

Some of the many people that love our Shelbs...

The Yarger bros & I

Our whole crew, after the ceremony

Dalton and Jesse.  Umm, I think Jesse was rehearsing for his College graduation.

After all the excitement, not to mention the long drive from Montana, I think our guests were a bit worn out...

So off to bed we went, only to wake up bright and early for a delicious waffle breakfast at our house.  Apparently 7 am came just a little too early for some of us:

I think Jared is mad at Shelby for hogging the blanket... or maybe he's mad because he wanted to sit next to Ally :)

And for others, they were wide-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready to work.  So we put them to work on the plates of fruit.  As you can see, they took their jobs very seriously.

Too perfect to eat!

Later that day, there were a bunch of animal adoption agencies bringing woof woofs and meow meows to the Petsmart parking lot, to tug on people's heart strings and get them to take one home with them.  We thought this sounded like a fun activity for Avril so we decided to go.

Avril loved petting the animals.  Here she is observing a meow meow.

And here's uncle Shelbs with little Av and his madre.  We had so much fun, and managed to escape without bringing home any animals with us!