College Grad!

On Thursday and Friday, Aaron graduated from Brigham Young University with his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering. Commencement exercises were on Thursday at the Marriot Center. Elder Ballard was the main speaker. We all thought it was interesting that he chose to talk about not being defensive when you talk to non-members about the church and about how members should handle negative media attention. Another interesting note: Elder Ballard owns an iphone :) After Commencement we had a really nice dinner and Aaron's Uncle Richard and Aunt Debby's house.

I've heard of people dressing their kids up in graduation outfits, but we didn't have the resources, so we just snapped pictures of ours wearing Aaron's hat. Ivan was pretty easy, but Lincoln didn't want to keep it on long enough to get a decent shot. We only got this picture because Uncle Ryan stuck him on this statue of a compass outside the engineering building, and he had to hold on with both hands so he wouldn't fall off. :)

Aaron's mom and dad flew in Wednesday so that they could come to all of graduation. It was really nice to have them here. Aaron's brother's Kelly and Ryan, and Ryan's girlfriend Melissa, were also there to watch Aaron walk on Friday. Here's the whole group minus Melissa who was taking the picture.
Kelly brought his awesome camera and took these shots of Aaron actually receiving the little white folder with the fake diploma in it. Kelly got way better shots than we did from where we were sitting so we'll use his instead of the ones on our camera.

At convocation the main speaker was someone from the Engineering College and about the only thing he said that didn't go straight over my head was his opening joke, "One night I was telling my wife all about what I was doing in my field (can't remember what field it was exactly but something engineerish) and pretty soon she was fast asleep in the bed next to me, so now whenever she has trouble sleeping she asks me to explain _____ (insert some engineering term here)." I thought this was humorous because the same thing happens to Aaron and I on a regular basis. Not because I don't care about what he's doing, it's just so mathematically advanced that I don't have the brain cells to comprehend it. It's like listening to him speak another language. After convocation there was a luncheon at the Clyde Building (Aaron's home away from home). We ate and then went outside and took pictures, you can see how cooperative our kids were about picture taking after awhile. ;) Especially Lincoln.

Krystal, Aaron, Debbie, Chuck

Aaron, Lincoln, Krystal, Ivan