The Juris Doctor

On Friday, April 23rd, Abram graduated from BYU's Law School. We attended his graduation at the Provo Tabernacle. After 3 years of hard work...HE DID IT!! We are proud of you, Abram, and wish you well in practicing law.
(The indoor photos aren't the greatest...too far away for the flash to be effective, but Dad tried.)

Entering the Tabernacle

Walking up to the podium

Being hooded

Receiving his diploma from the Dean

Graduates accepting applause from the audience

The Juris Doctor

The graduate and his supporter

Airie and Abram and Mom

The hood

The real hood

Reception at the Provo Tabernacle

The guests. It was rather windy and chilly for April, but we were lucky it wasn't raining!

Dinner at Mimi's afterwards

Dreaming of the long-deserved 10-day vacation to California and Oregon starting tomorrow!

Trip to Hillsboro--Arrival on Friday, April 16th

Mt. Hood...driving along the Columbia River Gorge

Host and Hostess--thanks for a wonderful time and great food (especially salmon and Nicholas bread and gooey brownies) and the opportunity to play with the kids and sing songs on the sidewalk, and play hearts, and the trip to see the tulips with geocaching thrown in, and the walk around the block and playing ball on the front lawn, and going to church together and the smooth ride in the van, and the comfy bed, and fresh flowers around the house and the chance to spend some time together!!!

Dad overseeing the car constructor.

Grandma reading Richard Scarry to Miss Sydney

Tiptoe through the Tulips

What a perfect venue for Mr. Camera. It was hard to choose from the myriads of photos, but we tried to narrow it down. Our visit to the Wooden Shoe Tulip Farm in Woodburn, Oregon with its 40 acres of tulips was an amazing adventure!!!

Large salmon tulips--WOW!

Handpainted?

Rows

More rows

Purple rows

The visitors

Is Miss Clara somewhere in that stroller full of paraphernalia?

Surrounded by color

Happy couple

Oh that face!

T and a tiny tulip

Sunburst

Fringed

Red dipped in yellow

Yellow splashed with red

Merry mixture

Steam Tractor

Tractor driver

3 in a wooden shoe

Talmage ready for a ride

The wooden shoe train ride through the tulips

More Tulips and Geocaching

Orange

Variegated

Pink double blooms

Fire...my favorite

The windmill at Woodburn Tulip Farm

Big yellow shoes.

The Little Dutch Girl

The bumpy slide in the kids play area, close to where we ate lunch...snacks, hot dogs, fruit, cheeseburgers, elephant ears...

Little bundle off to do some geocaching

Slide at Centennial Park

The bouncy platform

Swings!

Happy little Talmage in the happy little tire swing

Moss-covered tree cache called Old Mother Hubbard...in Hubbard, Oregon

Spring blossoms at Noble Woods