Kim's Graduation Day

A big Congratulations to my Sister-in-Law Kim for graduating from Strayer University. You are very deserving...  I know a lot of hard work, sacrifice and pray went in to it. Know that your family loves and supports you in all of your endeavors. 
  It was held at the Time Warner Arena in Raleigh, NC.   (that's where the bobcats play.) It was a beautiful hot summer day, a beautiful ceremony. A couple rain showers couldn't even keep us from making this event.  The speaches were short and sweet. There were tears, laughs.. and then there was Mustafa's voice.  Maybe he'll say your name for your Graduates degree... or maybe he'll going into voice-over work like the homeless guy from Ohio.




























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