Rick is a College Grad

Rick graduated with his Political Science degree in December and I am so proud of him!!! He has waited for this day for so long, and he did it! Because of the holidays, we decided to wait until January to do his party and celebrate. We had a small get together last Saturday with family and friends and it was a great time. It was wonderful to get together with loved ones to honor Rick and all of his hard work at BYU. Rick's parents live in California and were unable to make it to the party, so we are flying Rick out to Cali next week to spend some time with the two people who influenced him and guided him the most during his education. He is so excited to go home for a week and celebrate with his mom and dad!

BYU doesn't do commencement in December, so all the graduates from December have to wait until April to walk and do the whole cap and gown thing. Rick's mom and myself absolutely insisted that Rick walk in commencement, but much to our dismay Rick has opted out and won't be walking. Maybe by some great miracle he will change his mind and put on that cap and gown in April:) I love you Rick and I'm so proud of all of your dedication and hard work throughout the years. Goooooooooooooooodbye BYU!!!!

Graduation '09

I am finally a college graduate!! Last Thursday and Friday was graduation and it was an awesome two days. I received my degree in Exercise Science and I got a minor in business. It has been a long long road and I am so happy I am done, but I'm even more happy for the experience I had in getting an education. Nothing will be able to replace the lessons I learned while going to school. It was worth all the thousands of dollars and every sleepless night, I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Commencement was on Thursday at the Marriot Center with all 6000+ BYU graduates. It was quite the experience walking with 6000 other graduates, pretty amazing. Another special thing was that two apostles were the speakers, Elder Uchtdorf and Elder Nelson. I LOVE these two so much and they gave such a good message in their talks, it was definitely a special way to say goodbye to my days at BYU.

Friday was convocation for each school where they recognized each individual graduate by calling your name and receiving your degree. My whole family was there and Rick's parents came from Cali to support me, I have the most amazing family. Thanks to my mom and dad for having such a yummy dinner afterwards. They put so much time and effort into making this day special. I love them!!

Wooo hooo!!! So what now? Well, about 3 wks before I graduated my current employer offered me a position in accounting that I couldn't resist so I am going to be staying put at my job. I am a little sad that I won't be working in the health field for now but I will definitely not be ruling it out for the future:) Now my focus will be on supporting Rick in getting his last 5 classes done until he graduates!!!!

I love these guys

BYU

Rick is SO happy I am done:)

Me and Bambi(my brother's wife's mom)...the most supportive lady ever!! She was at my high school graduation and I am so happy she was there for this, I love her.

Hansens and Daytons

Why I hate BYU sometimes...

I am currently at school, it is 11:00 pm. I am trying to study for a test but this IDIOT is jamming out cheesy versions of Michael Buble songs on the piano, singing and all. I love Michael but not this kids renditions. After every song I hope that he is running out of energy. It's 11:00 at night!! Go home and hit the hay so I can get my friggin work done. I realize I should not be blogging about this and should be studying but I was having a hard time concentrating because of this nerdy turdy.