Nicole graduated on Friday April 11 from boot camp. She is officially in the US Navy and on her way to quartermaster's school at Great Lakes. The above photo is Nicole with her mom, Lorraine Woods and her mother's boyfriend. Patrick rode up with them Thursday afternoon and stayed at a hotel overnight. Friday night they stayed at Lorraine's mother's home. Lorraine said her mother was up cooking for them at 4:00 a.m.! She wanted everything to be perfect! As you can see in the photo, Lorraine is very proud of her daughter. She was just about to bust when she was telling us all the details about the ceremony Saturday afternoon. Patrick looks pretty proud too.
Patrick with Nicole and her mother's boyfriend.
Patrick took these great pictures of the gradutation ceremony. Nicole was able to come back home for 24 hours so we were able to see her on Saturday afternoon. She looked wonderful in her uniform, dress blues. Nicole gave Mom and I a copy of her graduation photo - professionally taken - and a program of the event. Lorraine said it was SRO, the place was packed! A friend of hers was also there to see her daughter graduate, so they got seats up front with her and her family. Her friend is actually in the service too and deployed to Kuwait and she was approved for leave to come back to the states for graduation. This woman, Michelle Pulley, is also Jerri Anne's assistant warden at Henry Hill Correctional Center. There were television cameras everywhere to capture her daughter's reaction. Michelle's daughter did NOT know she was coming to the ceremony. Mom and I saw it on TV. We were trying to find Nicole in the crowd, but didn't. What a surprise. Nicole said she was interviewed for the Navy channel (didn't know they had one) and she said she'd get us a copy of it. We're looking forward to that.
Nicole graduated on Friday April 11 from boot camp. She is officially in the US Navy and on her way to quartermaster's school at Great Lakes. The above photo is Nicole with her mom, Lorraine Woods and her mother's boyfriend. Patrick rode up with them Thursday afternoon and stayed at a hotel overnight. Friday night they stayed at Lorraine's mother's home. Lorraine said her mother was up cooking for them at 4:00 a.m.! She wanted everything to be perfect! As you can see in the photo, Lorraine is very proud of her daughter. She was just about to bust when she was telling us all the details about the ceremony Saturday afternoon. Patrick looks pretty proud too.
Patrick with Nicole and her mother's boyfriend.
Patrick took these great pictures of the gradutation ceremony. Nicole was able to come back home for 24 hours so we were able to see her on Saturday afternoon. She looked wonderful in her uniform, dress blues. Nicole gave Mom and I a copy of her graduation photo - professionally taken - and a program of the event. Lorraine said it was SRO, the place was packed! A friend of hers was also there to see her daughter graduate, so they got seats up front with her and her family. Her friend is actually in the service too and deployed to Kuwait and she was approved for leave to come back to the states for graduation. This woman, Michelle Pulley, is also Jerri Anne's assistant warden at Henry Hill Correctional Center. There were television cameras everywhere to capture her daughter's reaction. Michelle's daughter did NOT know she was coming to the ceremony. Mom and I saw it on TV. We were trying to find Nicole in the crowd, but didn't. What a surprise. Nicole said she was interviewed for the Navy channel (didn't know they had one) and she said she'd get us a copy of it. We're looking forward to that. 
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