Summer Vacation: Day Four!

Graduation Day!!

We arrived to an already packed field (graduation was outside and it was HOT!) before 9:00 am and awaited my brother's graduation from Basic Training. We passed a few tanks while walking to the stands, Aiden liked those: 

The ceremony was awesome! Very well done and interesting. Here is a photo of the band: 

I wasn't able to take as many pictures as I wanted to because of: 

I cannot believe she slept through the cheering and the guns going off! 

My brother is somewhere in here....

We did take a few photos with him after the ceremony but they are on a different camera, hopefully I can post them soon! We left fairly soon afterwards and stopped at a mall for diaper changes and a stretching before our trip to North Carolina. 

We also stopped later for a little sanity...

Aiden opened up another present, Jake and the Neverland Pirates coloring book, 

And Charlie played with her toys

And 5 ish hours later, we were at my birth father's and family's home  in Charlotte, NC! ( No, Charlie isn't named after this town ;) ) We arrived just in time for supper and my family took us out to a Mongolian stir fry restaurant. It was VERY good but our kiddos, well, lets just say we didn't go back up for seconds and thirds. They were ready to be done I think :) We came back to their house and unpacked, put kids to bed and visited, it was a great evening! We looked forward to the next day because there was NO driving involved!