Pomp and Circumstance

5/23/08....

well-now that we have recovered completely from the New York trip and have the boys back from their trip from their trip to Washington with Mamoo and Papoo it is time for some catching up in my blog.....

On May 23rd Austin Lee Hudnall graduated from Middle School and will become an official High School student beginning this new school year in the fall. It seems just yesterday that Dr. Curtis High was telling me that I was almost done with all the hard work and all the months of feeling bad with kidney infections and all the "glorious" associated things that come along with pregnancy to welcome the beauty of your first born child. It is truly a miracle to hold a child in your arms for the first time. To count their fingers and their toes, to look into their eyes. And to make a promise to them at that very moment to make their life as perfect as possible and to keep them as safe in this world as you possibly can because it is the promise that you made to God and that he expects from you when he blessed you with the responsibility of giving you the gift of a child. Well, Austin has definately been that. A blessing. From day one. He has never ceased to amaze Chad nor I in his infinate wonder of the world and all that it holds in it. He has never met a challenge that he wouldn't take on full force and there wasn't a goal that he set that he didn't meet. We have always been so proud of him....of both of our boys. And today as we see him graduate from Collierville Middle School, we are so proud of him yet again, because we know that we took him from school in Kentucky at a very "touchy" time in his life when friends are so important to a young man. Yet Austin took another challenge on and embraced it and conquered it and he rose to the top shining like a super star. He has made so many new, and wonderful friends since moving here to Collierville and we are so proud of him and his decisions. And he will take those friends with him to his High School Years and they will have some great times ahead of them....oh I am sure they will get into some trouble. I am sure we can ALL remember some of our High School Days.........(ahhh the memories) but they will stick together and be there for one another through thick and thin and make lasting memories that will be something that they can hold onto for a lifetime. So here's to you Austin. For your accomplishment's in graduating Middle School and in the years ahead of you in High School! Good Luck Baby. We all love you-

Love to you all and til next time-