Seminary graduation was on Thursday the 26th of May. Bo sang a feature spot in the Seminary choir closing song "Praise to the Man" with Devin McNeil and Cameron Byrd. The Choir was spectacular. They really sounded great. The entire program was very good.
These are the priests in our ward who graduated from Seminary,
Kyle Lunt, Bo, Orrin Ramsey, Ammon McKinlay, Chandlar McCullough, Bryce Kay - going to Ohio on his mission in July, Michael Bonham
It was great to have all our family there - Chauncy and Shar and their 4 kids, Seth 5, Preston 4, Morgan 2 and Jaylee 2 months.
Val and Spencer (well, Spencer was here but drove to the valley to attend his sister Rachel's graduation from Massage Therapy School) but he was here for Seminary Grad and all other activities and their 3 kids, McKay 5, Dallin almost 3, Ethan 6 months. Jay and Brittany and Eden 1, Trevor and Kim, and Bo and Daniel. Gavin is still serving in Peru - 6 more months. Val was visiting with Louise Flake and so she got to be in the picture with us.
Daniel got to participate in the graduation. I'm thankful for a good boy to come and stay with us. He didn't give us any trouble at all, he was fun and happy and took a lot of teasing from his "older brothers" He put up with getting put out of his room when the married kids came to visit and putting up with the grandkids. He loves Eden and Eden loves Daniel. He got along great with everyone and was respectful and kind. We love Daniel and we will miss him. His flight back to Bogota was scheduled for May 30th at 7:15 am. Mike and Daniel drove to Phoenix early Monday morning. I was going to go with them but after late nights and early mornings all week I opted to stay home and spend the day with Val and her family because she was leaving that afternoon. He had been packing for 2 weeks. He had to leave a few things with Mike so he wouldn't have to pay 100 dollars extra for another bag. He collected a lot of things while here. We had a good time with Daniel. I hope that he feels good about his 10 month stay in Snowflake with us. It was fun.
This is a picture of us playing in our back yard on Saturday after graduation. We took a family picture and as we were smiling, McKay said "Daniel Montero" so we all said, "Daniel Montero" we looked at Daniel and he had tears in his eyes, it was a special moment.