Graduation

Casey and I graduated from BYU-Idaho July 23, 2010. We are both amazed that this day has finally arrived. There is no way we could have made it without the support of our families. College is not easy and we found out that it is even harder to finish while having children. It has been so worth it though and we are very glad to be done so we can start spending more time with Isaiah outside playing, instead of trying to keep him from turning the computer off or typing on the keyboard while we are working on homework. :) Thanks again Grandma Pieper, Mom, Dad, Coyote, Mary, Hannah, Beck and everyone who has all been such a great help in watching Isaiah when our schedules conflicted.

Casey's parents were able to make it up to see us graduate, so it was really nice to have both of our parents there to support us. We went to a banquet before graduation and it was sooooo good. (We thought this was the best part of the whole night.) This time for graduation my dad got to sit by my mom instead of putting on his gown to join the rest of the faculty. Although I am sure he is sick of attending graduations by now, it was nice having him there. :) Casey and I were both really happy that we were able to graduate at the same time and it made the whole thing much easier to bear since we got to sit by each other through the whole thing and talk through the boring parts. We were 1 of 56 other couples that graduated together. So far this has been the largest Spring graduation at BYU-I with over 1400 graduates.

On Saturday following graduation (which was Friday) we were able to go to Idaho Falls to watch the Blue Angels Air Show with Casey's parents before they left to go home. It was so neat and I was really glad we got to watch it. Isaiah did really good except when they would fly right over our head. It was really loud then, and he would start to cry. :) So then we would try and plug his ears when we would see they were about to fly over, but he didn't like that either. He had fun watching the planes, but he had just as much fun playing in Grandma Davis's popcorn.

Graduates marching in.

Casey and I walking across the stage

Us with our "fake" diplomas.

Graduates with our parents

The Air Show