Alright this is my attempt to begin to catch up on my blog! We had a lesson in church on doing family history and different ways that we can "count" as doing our family history. The lady teaching the lesson said that she kept a blog as a journal than has them printed out every 6 months or so...so since I've never been good at keeping a journal I decided I wanted to do the same! Plus I think it will be really cool to look back at! Anways, rewind back almost 6 months and see what we have been up to and how dramatically our lives have changed over the last little bit!!!
TJ and I graduated from Brigham Young University - Idaho on July 23, 2009! TJ recieved his bachelors in Business Management with clusters in Chemistry and Biology. I recieved my Bachelors in Accounting with clusters in Business and Home and Family Sciences. After a long journey and many days and nights of feeling like this day would never come it finally did! It was bitter sweet! We were so happy to say goodbye to freezing Rexburg winters and ice covered roads but sad to leave many friends! Overall both of us loved our experience at this school and felt blessed to have had the opportunity to be there!
Here is our graduation ice-cream cake (ansley's idea) ! The McGary's also decorated a pavillion at our church so we had a little graduation party! Thanks Lyneers and Kurt!!!
Here we are before graduation begins! It was like 95 degrees outside and I was super prego. In fact I had Cohen exactly 1 month after graduation!!! We lined up in the clark then marched into the Hart. Bishop Edgley spoke at our graduation! It was great but a little long to be in a hot gym!!!
Jay and Mirae were so nice to make the long trip out to celebrate with us! Later that weekend we spent a couple of days with them in Jackson and Yellowstone National Park!
Here I am trying to ice my ankles to take away some of the swelling so that I can actully fit in some shoes. Flip flops are not allowed on campus and I really didn't want to get kicked out on my own graduation! I'm sure I probably could have pulled a fat lip and some tears and gotten away with it but I figured I'd made it that far I might as well stick with it one more day!!!
Here are my elephantitus feet! Disgusting I know! Mirae kept telling me that I would want pictures to remember! I don't know if I agree! I am however very proud to say that my ankles bones are back and fully visable and now they are one of my favorite features!!!
We obviously look board and ready to get out of there!
Jared and Erica also came up from Provo for our graduation. We were so grateful that they made the drive up to be with us on our special day!
And of course my fam! We are kind of dwindling in numbers as far as graduation pics go! Every time one of us graduates less and less of my family shows up in the pictures! Lucky for them though that they didn't have to sit through another graduation!!! Merilee hopefully someone shows up for yours!!!
Kurt and Lynlee also came to support us! Thanks again and thank you for the decorations!!! They were amazing!
Here we are with our diplomas (not really they are empty)! I recieved mine the day I got induced to have Cohen and TJ got his in the mail about 2 weeks later! We are so proud of ourselves for making it! Thank you to everyone that helped and supported us along the way! TJ has applied to 12 dental schools and I'm teaching Cohen how to make financial statements! Just kidding...I'm loving being a mom and feel at ease that I have a good education to fall back on if our family is ever in need of me going back to work. For now though I'm just planning on staying at home and working on the whole mom thing!
Us at the top of the ski hill at the Jackso resort! It was super high up and I ended up getting a little nauseated because of the lack of oxygen that I was getting!
We stopped to take a dip in the Yellowstone Lake! It was freezing but it felt soooo good on my swollen ankles! I could have stayed all day!!!
At the top of the ski hill right by downtown Jackson!
Here is the famous picture under the antler arch! Everyone's gotta have one! Some Asian tourist took ours and totally cut off the top though!!!
