Retirement Party

Last Saturday we celebrated Oma's retirement from 34 years of teaching with a family party.  Oma is technically still teaching.  She goes to school for one Latin class everyday.  She loves not having to wake up early in the morning to get ready for school and instead does yard work.  She loves not having the stress of tons of grading.  She is enjoying the semi-retired life.  

We already had some small celebrations at the end of the school year in June, but waited until now to have the family party because my brother and his wife are visiting from Japan.  Although the focus of the party was her retirement, it also happened to fall on her birthday and there were other family birthdays around that time.  So we gave a nod to all the September birthdays with some singing and a cake at the end of the day.

To celebrate her retirement, at her special request, we hired a photographer to capture our family.  It was hard to do with the five kids.  There were times where one or more of them were not cooperating.  But I think we ended up with some really good shots of everyone.  We haven't seen them yet.  The photos here were taken by my father-in-law.  Some of his turned out beautifully as well.

 

I love the one of the five grandchildren.  I really hope that our photographer was able to get a good one with all them looking without funny faces. 

 

The rest of the day we spent eating, swimming, and spending time with one another.  The day went by quickly.  The kids cooperated with the strange nap time and place.  We had fun as a family, celebrating Oma.