Friday, May 3, 2013

Kelly's Graduation

Aaron's twin brother Kelly is done with graduate school! Yay! We, and most of the rest of Aaron's siblings, got to go up to the University of Utah and support him at graduation.

As much as I love BYU, I do have to say that they could take a few notes from the U of U about graduation ceremonies. All of Aaron's graduations were very formal and solemn and LONG. But Kelly's was fun. (Well, as fun as graduation can be, at least.) The graduates got to walk in behind a jazz quartet, and they were given bells to shake as they walked along. The speakers encouraged people to shout and cheer and come forward and take pictures. It was pretty cool.

I did not take very many pictures, because I was mostly holding Oliver, but I'm hoping the siblings will do a picture swap of all the pictures taken during this week that we were together, and then I'll get some more up. :)

Ivan, Aneya, and Adelia walking on U of U campus. 

Oliver smiling up at Grandpa and Grandma Swan

Back: Ollie, Chuck, Debbie, Samuel, Stacey, Claire, Lisa Front: Lincoln, Aneya, Ivan, Adelia, Krystal

My kids were really well behaved at graduation, largely thanks to Aunt Lisa's ipad that Aneya very nicely shared with Lincoln and Ivan, and the drawing game that Adelia played on Aaron's phone. Gotta love technology! 


Afterwards we met up with the family members who didn't come to graduation, and ate dinner as a very large group at Spaghetti Factory. My kids behaved well there too, a little bit to my surprise. Usually restaurants are a nightmare, but Aaron and I actually enjoyed ourselves for the most part. I think our kids were just really happy to be there with all their cousins.


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