Our kids have a couple of pseudo-uncles who are actually friends of my husband’s from way back in his Junior High Boy Scouting years.  We have watched their children grow up and they are now watching our children grow up.  Their kids have all graduated from high school and all but one from college, with two of them married off and another to be married in December this year.  We are a bit behind the curve as my husband is a few years older than both of his friends….and our kids are the youngest of the bunch.

We had asked Uncle Sam if he would smoke/bbq the meat for our oldest daughter’s graduation celebration and he went above and beyond by not only doing the meat we asked for but also adding another meat and hand-delivering all of it a few days before her party!

When Uncle Sam comes to our house, he just walks in.  The first time he did that, it nearly scared the kids half to death – they still talk about it to this day, and it’s been about five years ago!  🙂

It was no less startling this time except they looked before they screamed and realized who was walking in the door.  hehe

On top of the gift of the gift of the meat, Ms. Graduate also received a gift from her Uncle Sam – and she absolutely LOVED the time and effort it took for him to wrap it up for her…and to put the pretty orange crepe paper on as a bow (which she has saved and has it in her room)!

Inside the bag were some awesome gifts, too – especially for the UTSA-bound college student.  Her Uncle Sam is an alumni so he has special connections at UTSA…such as his wife who works in the alumni office!

And here is the happy girl with her Uncle Sam (on the left) and his dad, Mr. Sam (on the right):

I am sure, at some point, I will finally run out of stories about our oldest daughter’s graduation…but, not there yet!  By the time I finish, it’ll be time to give our other three children equal opportunity.  🙂  Luckily, I have three more school years before we have another graduate.