All About Kade

Kade has had lots going on lately so I decided I would just dedicate a whole post just to him. This has been Kade's senior year of high school. That is just crazy to me but the truth. So part of being a senior is having senior pictures done. Here are just a few of my favorites.

If you read the most recent post on Kade you learned that he refused to go to Prom and then got nominated for Prom King and had to go. He took Tori, who is from Pagosa Springs Colorado. She is really a neat girl. Anyway, Kade DID go to his Prom, and guess what? Tori asked him to her Prom. So Mr. I refuse to go to Prom, went to TWO Proms!! Kensie and I just loved that. Tori's Prom was the last day of April which was a Saturday. Kade had a track meet in Aztec that day. It happened to be Mark's weekend fishing trip to Lake Powell, Kensie had to work and Kace got sick. So it ended up just being me and Kade. I picked him up from the track meet with just enough time to get to Pagosa,(it's about a two and a half hour drive) check into our room, have him shower and get ready, and pick up Tori.

They do the funnest thing there. Kade and I went to her house, there they put on their flowers and then it was off to take before Prom picture. All the Prom goers go to The Springs, which is a big resort famous for the natural hot springs. It is a beautiful place and a great place to take pictures. ( It smells awful!! Natural hot springs smell of Sulfur and it's gross.) It is really neat because everyone is there, so all the parents get to see everyone all dressed up. I was a huge fan of this!

This is Kade and Tori on the huge front porch.

You can even go inside and take all the pictures you want.

Pagosa Springs High School mascot is the Pirates and sure enough this guy went to prom as a Pirate. His name is Bobbo. He was very nice and thought it was great to have a picture with Kade and Tori.

This picture cracks me up. Kade looks just a little bit worried or scared or uncertain or all of the above. The group they went to Prom with consisted of all of these girls, about five more girls, Tori's best friend and her date ( who was also from out of town) and Tori and Kade. He was feeling way outnumbered!! I have to say it was really cold when we were taking pictures and really Tori's dress was the only modest one I saw. The rest of the girls just wore goose bumps with their dresses!! Thanks Tori for being modest. You were by far the prettiest one there!! Tori told me "Modest is Hottest" and I totally agree.

This is what we woke up to the next morning. It was May 1st and dang cold! Kade had a great time and I really enjoyed Tori's family! It was really good to get to know them. But I think the best part was that Kade and I got to spend time together just the two of us. That doesn't happen very often and I really really enjoyed that!

Kirtland Central High School had their first ever Dodge Ball Tournament a couple of weeks ago. Kade and his friends just had to have a team to compete. And yes their team is the first official Kirtland Central Dodge Ball Tournament Champions. They beat out several teams included the Teachers Team. Mark and I are so proud!!!

Kade gives all the credit to their uniforms. I defiantly give the uniforms credit for something but it's not winning!!

Kade graduated from High School May 19th. We decided to take a few pictures before the ceremony and we are sure glad we did. He sure did look handsome in his cap and gown.

My three guys. Dang I love them! They are just all so good looking!! But how did my baby get to be taller than his big brother and not too far away from his Dad? There is something just not right about that. Kade thinks that's just wrong too!

Mark and I are very blessed to be able to call Kade son. We are so proud of him. He has turned into an amazing young man and we can't wait to see what his future will be.

I just had to share Kade's true colors. What a dork!! But he makes life full of fun.

My parents were able to make it for the graduation. I just love this picture of Kade and my dad. Talk about a couple of handsome guys!

Kade's graduation will be one we won't ever forget. Not because Kade got his diploma but because it was outside and about 10 minutes into the ceremony it started to rain. And it rained and rained. Not only did it rain but it was cold! Did they move it inside? No! Did they cut it short? No! Did they hurry it along? NO! We all sat through every ones speeches, (there were FIVE valedictorian!!!!) the handing out of the diplomas, then the moving of the tassels, then another speech who informed everyone she didn't care if it raining she Was going to give her prepared speech and she did! (which by this time it had moved from raining to pouring, it was coming down in sheets!) Kensie and Jason had these great waterproof jackets with hoods so they gave their umbrella to Kace. He was so grateful!

However Kensie's hood was huge and kept falling over her whole face.

Poor Mom and Dad, they drove all this way just to sit in the freezing rain, getting soaked. They must really love you, Kade!

We couldn't even see anything because everyone had umbrellas so that is what you saw. A whole bunch of colorful umbrellas!

I did get to see Kade get handed his diploma! At just the right time there was a parting in the sea of umbrellas. Unfortunately the water had to fall off the umbrella onto something. That happened to be our legs!

As wet as we were it was nothing compared to the graduates. They all sat on the field in their caps and gowns and no umbrellas. They were truly soaked to the bone and totally frozen! After the last speech was finished they just literally ran off the field. So did the teachers. There was still a couple of things still on the program but believe me nobody cared! This is Kade's "drowned rat" picture.

One of the thing we do here is called Project Graduation. It is done by the parents through San Juan County's Drug Free Program. The Seniors are all invited and they can bring one guest. This year we had over 200 students attend. They are locked in from 11pm to 3am. There is a ton of activities to do and a ton of food and PRIZES!! This year we raised more than $14,000. The majority going to prizes for the Seniors. Every Senior who signed up received a prize worth $70. (this is all done by drawing) Then there were several big prizes (laptops, tv, ect.) Then there were the BIG prizes. Three envelops with $500 cash and one envelope with $1000 cash. Kade was not drawn for a big prize but he chose a hurley hat and a watch. Mostly he just had a blast!

Here is Kade and a few of his friends toward the end of the night. They go hard until about 1:30 and then they start to wind down but they wouldn't miss it for the world. Mark and I are so grateful we have two of these down and only one to go. We got home around 4am and we are just too dang old to stay up all night anymore!! Kade's plans are to stay here and work and go to his first year of college at San Juan College and get ready for his mission. He won't even be 18 until June 6th so he has a whole year to prepare and he is already counting down the days!! We love Kade so much and are so very proud of him!