The Graduate

My brother's graduation wasn't until this evening so we decided to head down to Union Station & kill some time in the afternoon. It was extremely warm & uncomfortably humid today and you could tell that there was something "brewing" in the air. We just hoped the weather would cooperate until AFTER the graduation.

Union Station was fun to see and we all enjoyed walking around the building taking in the history. The highlight of our trip was watching Tanner enjoy the sites around him - especially the coal train that went underneath us on the bridge and the fire-station booth where he got to sit on a "toy replica" fire-truck!

My dad, brother Chris & Tanner walking across the bridge.

After our tour of Union Station, we headed home and later left for dinner & Steve's graduation. We weren't fortunate enough to miss the storm that was developing all day & after driving our way through a torrential downpour of rain & some pretty severe lightning, we enjoyed some awesome KC BBQ at Jack Stack in the old freight house in downtown KC. After we all stuffed ourselves silly, we made our way over to the church where the graduation ceremony was being held. It was a beautiful church and the graduation ceremony was really nice. It was awesome to see my brother graduate magna cum laude & get his Nursing degree and we are all very excited for him as he starts his new job at Truman Medical Center in a few weeks. Here is a pic of the happy grad with Caleb (his fiance's son) and with my parents: