Graduation Day!!!

Well – the day was finally here. Kayla was so excited to get out the door for Graduation. She arrived at the McKay Events Center on time – her boyfriend Chase was graduating as well so she hitched a ride with him. We left our home around 9am to make the dreaded 20 minute drive. Oh ya and all of Spanish Fork was making the drive for graduation too. The freeway was backed up!! What should have taken us 20 minutes, actually took us 50 minutes. I was grateful that my sister had left her home in Draper early and actually gotten to the Center at 9:15am. It was nice to know that we had seats waiting for us. (I told her to save 2 full rows)

The speakers delivered the basic speech given at every graduation “….. we are heading out into real life where the decisions that we make – will influence who we are and what we will become…..blah blah blah” The funny thing is that it is said year after year and really the choices that you have made up to that point in your life are just as critical to who you will become. (just my opinion) So after the speeches, they had a video presentation that was pretty hilarious. (Mostly a time waster – guess they had some extra time) Then it was time for the most exciting event — the one these kids had been waiting their whole lives for ….. it was time to MOVE THE TASSEL!!! Then they were announced graduated.. HOORAY!! So that was it –

Now it was picture time…. Pictures of Kayla with her Aunts and Uncle, Cousins, Grandparents, sisters and mommy and daddy! Thank heavens it was a gorgeous day outside. The weather had been a little iffy the days prior and I was hoping that the rain would stop. There were hundreds of pictures taken outside – trying to make sure that everyone got to be in the photos – you know trying to take the perfect pictures. After all of that fun and games, we went to dinner at one of the most fabulous mexican joints in the area – Los Hermanos. Everyone was hungry and the food was great. We all enjoyed a lot of visiting with one another. For some of us we hadn’t seen each other in ages.

When we finally got home, Jon and I were beat – and it was only 5.30pm! Kayla was getting all ready to head out for a night of stopping by several parties. We are such nice parents that we extended her curfew to 3.00am. She had a lot of packing to do before she left to move to Logan on Saturday.

It was a really great day and we are so proud of our daughter – GREAT JOB Kayla!! Just think one down and only two more to go. It sure is a good thing that we have 8 years until the next great graduation event.