Sunday, May 11, 2008

A college graduation


We had a college graduation from the University of Illinois this weekend...yesterday to be exact....Ms. Shannon graduated with honors as well as earning the James Scholar Award-an honors program award you need to be invited to do with a grade point average of 3.5 or higher and you have to complete certain requirements each year ...31 of her fellow College of Aces graduates also earned this award--it is the medal on the orange and blue ribbon-.....Here are a few pictures of the event.
Here is our little hugger -Tina- notice your bracelet on her wrist!(you will need to click on the photo to see it!)-



The Happy Parents!

a brother patiently waiting to go and eat SOMETHING

15 comments:

ANNA-LYS said...

Congrats!!!
btw I have pics of my dogs on my spot :-D they are not graduated!

Andrea said...

CONGRATULATIONS

Anonymous said...

Neva,

We were watching the news and wondering if you've heard from Greg after the earthquake in China. (Jeff: "I wonder what city he's in?")

Hope everything's ok!
(Great pictures!)

Jessy and Jeff

PeterParis said...

It's nice to have the opportunity to be really proud of your kids - and with the time, grandkids! Congratulations to all of you!

david mcmahon said...

Congratulations all round - especially to the brother who waited so patiently.

Thank you so much for the visit and the wonderful comment. I am really and truly honoured.

abb said...

Just lovely - congratulations!

Thanks for visiting me.

My hubby (GB) grew up in Roselle - we've been moving back to the greater Chi-town area for about 25 years now...hasn't happened yet!

I'm bookmarking you and will be back often - thank goodness for ABC Wednesday!

Liz Hinds said...

What a wonderful day that must have been. You all look very happy - except brother who looks hungry!

nonizamboni said...

How wonderful! and the pride-filled day fell on Mother's day to boot. And the photos were great. Thanks for sharing and enjoy your weekend coming up--hope you all have better weather in Chicago than last weekend!

b.c. said...

congratulations to you and your graduate neva, it's so awesome to see these photos

david mcmahon said...

Thank you for the lovely comment on my Sky Watch photos.

You made my day!

Jo's-D-Eyes said...

my congrats and great selection of photo's

Anonymous said...

congrats! nice pictures of the event!

Shammickite said...

Congratulations to Shannon, and also to her very happy parents!

Liz said...

I just got a chance to look at your pictures. I bet you are so proud of your beautiful daughter. I especially love the picture where YOU LOOK SHORT. (Good thing I wasn't there.)

To the UK Liz: I did a double take thinking "I have no mememory of making that comment - I didn'T!! I'll have to start signing my comments LIZAZ, and you can sign yours LIZUK. Whoa! Neither sounds good.

sonia a. mascaro said...

Congratulations to all of you! What a beautiful family!