{"id":364,"date":"2009-07-10T23:41:31","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T06:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2009-07-10T23:41:31","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T06:41:31","slug":"graduation-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/graduation-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduation Day!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So about a month ago our very own Alex Baker GRADUATED!!\u00c2\u00a0 And despite the lateness of my blog post we are super super excited!\u00c2\u00a0 Life without homework has been awesome for our family and we are really enjoying it!\u00c2\u00a0 We decided to go down for the graduation festivities in Albuquerque so that Alex could wear his super cool masters robe and hood.\u00c2\u00a0 Plus Albuquerque has much better places to celebrate (such as Gardunos). Thanks Max and Kath!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SlduUSyB4EI\/AAAAAAAAB28\/sIXmTFwtm4o\/s400\/img_4004.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>UNM reads all the graduates names at both their commencement and convocation ceremonies so we got to hear daddy&#8217;s name read at both.\u00c2\u00a0 This first picture was taken at the commencement ceremonies in the morning!\u00c2\u00a0 It was a very New Mexican ceremony complete with mariachi band.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SlduVPDxE4I\/AAAAAAAAB3E\/3xfFblSbm5s\/s400\/img_4013.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first graduation was in the rodeo grounds and it was a really windy day so the sand in the face parking lot kind of aggravated the girls (not to mention their mom!) BUT, The second ceremony was a lot smaller and in a much cooler and less crowded building which was nice for the girls!\u00c2\u00a0 Here is pic of Grandpa entertaining a very restless Emmy!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SlduVzKtkzI\/AAAAAAAAB3M\/XrWlQ2Cm8iU\/s400\/img_4017.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just by luck we sat right accross the aisle from Alex so we got to take some fun shots!\u00c2\u00a0 Here is Alex with the rest of his Computer Science Master Student friends!\u00c2\u00a0 What a good looking college boy he is!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SlduWTIyekI\/AAAAAAAAB3U\/a-cg6bKvBYo\/s400\/img_4027.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is the first picture of Alex after he officially graduated!\u00c2\u00a0 Does he look different?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SlduXBMtOwI\/AAAAAAAAB3c\/oAniRu0GIHQ\/s400\/img_4033.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex and his cheerleaders!\u00c2\u00a0 (Emmy by this point knows that there is cake in the lobby so she is eager to go!) \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SlduXWS_OCI\/AAAAAAAAB3g\/JevZ4yw9cRQ\/s400\/img_4040.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex, Emmy and Grandpa!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"picasa\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/_O6y5XWIO4Vc\/SlduYIiIEyI\/AAAAAAAAB3o\/KtcNkUWsHoI\/s400\/img_4042.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And finally a picture of his graduation hood!\u00c2\u00a0 Becuase I think it looks cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So about a month ago our very own Alex Baker GRADUATED!!\u00c2\u00a0 And despite the lateness of my blog post we are super super excited!\u00c2\u00a0 Life without homework has been awesome for our family and we are really enjoying it!\u00c2\u00a0 We decided to go down for the graduation festivities in Albuquerque so that Alex could wear &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/graduation-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Graduation Day!!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emmy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juliaandalex.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}