Days with the Dorans

Joey has been pretty sure that WMU is the school that he wants to go to but we've been trying to get him to tour other campuses. He has no desire to visit MSU (which is weird to me since his best friend goes there) and Oakland U was hard to get a tour so we'll have to wait on that one. We did manage a tour with Grand Valley State University. The neat thing is that one of Joey's good friends (Katie) was moving into her dorm that day so after our tour, we got to go and see her for a little bit. I was actually AWFUL at taking pictures until the very end which is dumb because it was a beautiful campus. Our impressions were it was very new and small. Ali really liked it and Joe asked lots of questions of our tour guide so I was really curious and wondered if he now thought he'd be a Laker... After we left the tour guide, I said, "So, what did you think?" Joey said, "I think it's really nice here but I'm a Bronco!" To that Jeff fist pumped the air ...

  So I am a bit in shock and denial that my baby is ready for college visits. With Ali being so close in age we decided to bring her too so the four of us were off (leaving the littles and pups behind- that felt a bit weird). Joey has been really interested in WMU. We've told him we're cool with him doing community college or really anywhere. The only place he mentioned though was our alma mater (Jeff recently got all his blind stuff from WMU-although we met there he didn't graduate from there at that time...). It was a hot and humid day and we were off for a tour. I don't remember ever doing that but it was really neat. We were paired with a student tour-guide and learned all about WMU. Joe loved it. Campus has changed a ton since we went there (even since we were there last at Stew's wedding). Even Sangren (the education building) was torn down and rebuilt). There was construction going on while we were there. They're building a huge student union building and...