Skylers Graduation

Updated: YouTube was being it's usual bitchy self and removed the music. So I uploaded the video. You can try again if you didn't get the music now.

What a week it has been! All of Kathy's family (except the oldest sister and her husband) came in from the Seattle area to help celebrate the big event. Skyler's favorite cousin, Kirsten, came in early on Monday to hang out with him and enjoy some special time with him before the rest of the family hit town, and he loved that.



We had a lot going on, and I wanted to get Kirsten up into the mountains. But time was short so I could only get up to a hiking area outside of Evergreen called Elk Meadow, but she had a good time anyway.




We managed to get a quick trip up to Eldorado Canyon also.



The rest of Kathy's family came into town later in the week, and while Kirsten stayed with us, they were at a local hotel. Everyone got together for breakfast one morning.



And of course the required family photo after we had a dinner at our place.



My dogs liked all the added attention!



Graduation night was a long one, a bit late for Skyler's liking. He is an early bird, and this ran late. He hung in there pretty well until the end, especially when the ass-hats of the crowd started blowing air horns when their kids were announced. I thought we were heading for a seizure a couple of times. But he did OK. Here he is with a teacher and his long time aide, on the right.



His grade school principal and art teacher came to see him also.




Here I am in the stands up at the CU event center where they had the graduation. We got their early to hold down seats, and managed to hang onto a couple of rows.



And here is the big moment, my man picking up the diploma! Since he couldn't go up on stage, the superintendent of schools came down to him. I thought it was fitting they adapt to him for once in his life.



We had a hard time keeping that mortar board hat on his head with his headrest...



Saturday was the graduation party. We had about 120 folks that came, and a friend of Kathy's that lives in 5 parks was able to rent their clubhouse for us to use. It was great!





Thanks for hanging in there this long, I would like to share a video that Skyler and his speech therapist made for his graduation. It's 8 minutes, I hope you enjoy.