Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Randy Graduated!!!!!!!

-K- so I am having a really hard time rearranging these shots, I'm not sure why blogger won't let me do it at this point, so bear with me. These pics are really out of order. Regardless, Randy's big day has come and gone, and it was an amazing day. Randy graduated from UVU (FYI, his was the first official class to graduate from the newly named University), and it was awesome. Other than the fact we had to be up at the crack of dawn to make it to his convocation at 8 AM (ya, you heard me right), it was a great day. He had his convocation first and then commencement was immediately after in the same building for us, since his was the biggest school graduating that day. So we got to sit really close to the front, which was awesome since President Monson was going to speak. He didn't even speak at BYU, how lucky were we. The rest of the First Presidency even came to support him (you'll see some pics coming up) since he was receiving and honorary doctorate from UVU.
So here is Randy after we were all done, with Morgie, just a random shot, but it was soo cute I had to include it. Hail the conquering graduate. . .
Here's one of the many picture we tried to take of us, it was an interesting moment, can ya tell?
Sister Monson also was there and she too was given and honorary doctorate from UVU. This is right after she was robed and Pres. Monson was giving her a kiss, she almost looks like, "Whatever, don't you dare plant one on me." This is right after Pres. Monson got robed, he was sooo cute.
We actually found Randy in the sea of black hats. He even sat on the same side as us, just realllly far back. We had a better seat than him for the Prophets talk. Nee ner nee ner nee ner. President Monson gave an amazing talk. I was debating on weather or not to go to this part, but when I found out who was speaking, I wasn't going to miss it. It was sooo worth going.
Here's President Uchtdorf and his wife. They along with Pres. Eyring were sitting 11 rows directly in front of us. Talk about luck. President Eyring shaking hands with some of the crowd.
And of course Randy receiving his diploma. We are sooo grateful for his dedication to finish his degree. It's been a long hard road but well worth all of the sacrifices. Here's to the next 3 years of more fun in grad school (hopefully, cross your fingers for us). We should hear back sometime next month.

4 comments:

Amanda Davis said...

How exciting!!! And I was impressed when looking at some old footage of Sunny and Angela's graduation and saw that they shook hands with Pres. Eyring! I don't think he was in the 12 yet or if he was he was just put in. The whole first presidency is pretty exciting!!! Oh and way to go Randy!

deveney said...

congrats!!! nice work on getting the degree, i am sure it will benefit the family for years to come:) great job randy!

velvetelement said...

Yeah Randy! Isn't it so nice to be done for now? Good luck with Grad School, you get to start all over again:)

Claire said...

Congrats!! What is next on your plate?