PARTAY! Grad party pictures part 2

More graduation pictures in this 30 second video.

Let's Party - He is Done!

Cordell was finished with school and we were ready to CELEBRATE! So, I decided to hire a band for his party. They played a bunch of 80s and 90s cover tunes and really were fun. We had a blast celebrating with our family and friends his accomplishment. We took a ton of pictures that night, so check out this 30 second video with some highlights. Part two coming soon!

Cordell - the DU MBA Grad!

We are so glad that Cordell has completed his degree. The last eighteen months really have flown by! I tried a new website and made a video of the pictures from his graduation ceremony on Friday, August 14th - Enjoy!

In the Hood

On Wednesday, August 12th the graduation festivities began with the "hooding ceremony" for just the Daniels School of Business. It was a neat ceremony that allowed for a little more of a personal ceremony. After each graduate was presented with their hood their family was allowed to join them on stage for pictures.

My brother Jason and Cordell's sister, Amanda joined us for the festivities.

Addie did wonderful during the ceremony and sat on Aunt Amanda's lap the whole time. She was very excited to watch her daddy get his hood and then join him on stage for a picture.

This is Bob Williamsen, the c0-CEO of Cordell's new company PES. We were glad he attended the ceremony to celebrate Cordell's accomplishment with us.

Me and my little bro! (He's so handsome)

Addie loves her Uncle Jas.

All of the graduates announced their name, degree and where they were from. Not a great picture, but shows the idea.

PAYDAY!

On August 12th Cordell got his first paycheck from the start-up company he has been working for since March. God is so good and has provided abundantly for us. It has been so wild to ride this ride since Cordell was laid off in January. (I will write more details about his new venture soon, but it has been going well and is VERY exciting!)

A couple of fun stories of God's goodness and provision...

Our tax return

We filed our tax return early after Cordell was laid off because we knew we would be getting a refund. We received our state return pretty quickly, but then hadn't received our federal refund. We logged on and it said there had been an error in our return. Cordell and I both were thinking, "Oh great." When we clicked on the link to investigate further we were informed that there had been an error and they owed us more money. This is unheard of - they found an error, corrected it and then sent us MORE money! Needless to say our tax guy probably won't be hired again, but can you believe that God worked through the IRS?!

Thanks Obama!

We have Cobra health insurance through Cordell's previous employer and thanks to Obama we have only had to pay 35% of the premium. This has saved us a ton of money every month and even though we don't agree with everything Obama is doing, we have enjoyed taking advantage of this program.

TV

Right after Christmas, Cordell and I had bought a flat screen TV as a present for each other. His brother, Justin did a ton of research and thanks to him we had found a good deal. We have a built-in entertainment center in our family room and everyone always made fun of what a little TV we had in that space. So, after seven years in our house we finally got a bigger TV! Well, after Cordell was laid off the first week of January, we decided to return the TV. At that point we felt that cash in the bank was better than a TV on the shelf. This is just a silly thing, but in March a new friend of ours was getting rid of their large TV, not a flat screen, but definitely fills up the space in the shelf! Fun that God decided to give us a bigger TV anyway. Now, Cordell's brother will come over to watch Broncos games!

God has more than provided for us and it is so fulfilling to watch for ways that He is working. I've shared a couple of little stories here, but there are many more.

Eiley makes us work for her giggles

Eiley laughed for the first time a little before she was four months old. She is so funny because she is such a smiley little girl, but she sure does make you work for those giggles. Each night Cordell and I try for about 2o minutes or so to get her to laugh. We might get a couple of giggles, but then she just smiles so big like she wants to laugh, but NOTHING! We should probably video tape us and how silly we look - oh the lengths we go to hear those cute giggles!

Here is a little video of her laughing a little while we were playing peek-a-b00.