Graduation

Seminary Graduation was on May 17th, and I think all the graduating seniors in my stake was bigger than the number of seniors in my school!! It was very cool though, and I was excited to have made it through. The talks were great too. Here's a picture of Dad and I after the graduation...

For High School Graduation, I had Ben & Co. and Ashley & Co. visiting for the weekend. They both got here on Thursday and we all went night swimming.

On Friday, Ashley and I went shoe shopping for my Graduation shoes (which were way cute) and then I had to go to Graduation Practice. After practice, we went out on the lake and did some surfing/wakeboarding. I can finally get up on the wakeboard, and stay there for more than two seconds, so that was awesome. Plus, Ariel (aka Ruth) was able to go swimming with her mermaid friends, which is always fun.

On Saturday, we all went out to lunch at this "trailer park" restaurant Downtown.

The whole place was pretty cool and funny, and we got a whole room to ourselves to play around in. Ruth order Spagettios and literally got a can of Spagettios and a bag of cheetos. It was pretty funny, but they actually had really good burgers and onion rings.

And then there was graduation. May 30th, 2009. We had it at the Taco Bell Arena at BSU, so the venue was very big for my small class of 120. We took up 4 rows, compared to the other high schools that took up like 17. The nice thing was that the whole ceremony was pretty short and sweet. I was so happy to be able to have my family there to celebrate with me. I was actually pretty sad to leave our game of Imaginiff to go the the All-Night Graduation party! But it was definitely a fun and memorable weekend...

This is me getting my diploma and walking across the stage...

Here's one of me and Ben...
The 3 Sisters...

Me and my twin, Ruth E... Dad and I... The whole Fam...
And, while we're here, I just wanted to say Thank You to my loving and amazing family, for helping me get through the public education system, giving me support, and helping me laugh along the way. I really don't think I could've passed my math courses without my long, long, LONG calls to Danny at least once a week. And RaeAnn and Ashley both talked me into doing "high school" things that I thought were pretty lame, but am now glad I participated in (Football games, graduation party, etc.) And I've really appreciated the efforts to come see me to celebrate and the letters and love I have received from everyone.

Thank You!!!