GRADUATION!

Yesterday Brad received his Masters of Science in Air Mobility from the Air Force Institute of Technology. Although we're all excited and relieved to finish this program it's also bittersweet to end this period of being a paid full time student!

The girls were excited about their patriotic dresses and anxious to see Daddy "fancy" in his mess dress uniform!

Brooke loved to play with Brad's medals...when we got married he had one lonely medal on his jacket.
Brad's parents flew in from TX to visit and attend the graduation ceremony.
Receiving his diploma from General Self, Commander of the USAF Expeditionary Center.
The 16 graduating members of the Advanced Studies in Air Mobility (ASAM) class of 2008.
We're all very proud of you Daddy! I know its been a long year and you've worked so hard.

After the graduation ceremony Brad's parents took the girls to McDonalds and home for bed. We attended a dinner reception where Brad was the surprise ice breaker with a performance of Somewhere Over The Rainbow accompanied by a ukulele. Lucky for Brad, I'm having difficulty downloading some very funny and incriminating video...I'm suspicious that he tampered with the file!

Unfortunately for Brad this respite from studying will be short...he has 15 credit hours remaining in a correspondence MS program he was working on through Embry Riddle Aeronautical University when he was accepted into the ASAM program. He took a break for the year for this program but now he needs to resume in distance learning program because he only has five years to complete the program and he is approaching the fourth year. At least he is already in the study mode!