Graduation from CCES

Our eldest daughter and second child graduated from elementary school in June. Here's a photo taken just beforehand in our backyard. Hair by Christina, flowers by my wife, gold earrings her surprise graduation present given moments earlier. A beautiful child of our covenant God - what a blessing!

This makes her our first child to graduate from elementary school. Our son started high school two years ago without having the ceremony of graduating, since he finished grade six in Iowa (and grade eight was the last grade of elementary there) and entered grade eight here (which is the first high-school year) because that put him into his peer group. He's not really big on ceremony so he was OK with that.

And below is a picture of the graduating class, with their diplomas and NIV Study Bibles, and the girls with a long-stemmed red rose. Not the greatest photo, as I didn't notice at the time that most students in the front row hid two others diagonally behind!