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Kyle graduated!

I mentioned my cousin, Kyle, graduated from college on Saturday.  He graduated from Missouri S&T.  And the guest speaker was an astronaut who went on the last shuttle mission in July 2011 and graduated from S&T.  I don't remember her name, but maybe Rubina will know and help me out.  


The ceremony was nice (although quite hot in the gym without A/C and 80ish degrees outside), but good!  I was even wearing a dress, I'm happy I wasn't wearing pants, a button up shirt and tie... poor guys =)


It was just so weird to see him graduate!  I used to give him rides to school in high school.  The rides would basically go like this:  I talked... a lot.  He listened.  I think I helped prepare him for relationships.  So you're welcome Rikki, his fiance.  ;)


Here are a few photos from the big day!  (There are a lot of Kyle and Charlie because I couldn't choose)

My family with Kyle & Grandma

Cousins!

such a good demo of happy baby pose =) 

My brother graduated from the same university for undergrad so after we had a nice lunch we headed to one of his favorite spots:  A Slice Of Pie.  And we all got a slice of pie.  I got some peanut butter chocolate concoction, which was delicious, and I devoured the whole thing on the ride back to St. Louis.  YUM!

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