I finally graduated!!!!!

Yes, it is true... i finally graduated... lo these four years later! And i am so excited!
Graduation was Saturday, June 10 at 4pm at the Lane County Fairgrounds. My graduating class is about 1000 students, but not that many people actually participated in the graduation ceremony. Sharon got to graduate with honors, and i graduated Phi Theta Kappa. She sat with her computer geek classmates, and i sat with my nursing classmates. I am sooo proud of my sister, graduating with TWO degrees at once... :D We had quite a few people come to our graduation: David, Elwood and Mildred, Mrs. Yost (yay!), my cousin, Joel, and his wife, Yuka, and Tony. Of course my parents came too.

After graduation we all went to this gorgeous rose garden, where they have over 400 different kinds of roses, and all of them were in bloom. It is sooo pretty! We took tons and tons of pics.

Tony stayed all weekend at our house, and we spent a lot of the day shampoo'ing our carpets... talk about a major ordeal! We took alllll the living room furniture out, and put a lot of it out on the front deck outside. In the afternoon Dad, Tony, and I went on a bike ride to the lake. Tony and i have fun making sure each other got nice and wet.. haha Then we came home and Tony showed me tons of pics! That was tons of fun...

All too soon the weekend was over, and Tony went away. :'( But it was an awesome two days. :)

I will post pics soon!

Only 10 more days until Graduation!!!

Wow, hard to believe that i have just one more nursing exam left for my nursing degree! I have my last test June 5, and my final research paper for Writing 123 (research writing) due on June 6 and then i will be done!! woooooooooo hoooooo! Pretty exciting. I went and bought my cap and gown on Tuesday. I could hardly wait. I am still waiting for the Phi Theta Kappa regelia to come in though.

I had so much fun last sabbath. I went to Grants Pass again. Pastor Clark had such an awesome sermon on why God allows bad things to happen. Would surely love to steal that pastor and bring him to our church. hehe Then we went to a church members house for lunch. The lady was such a good cook. It was funny, she couldnt believe how much Tony and I ate.. haha... and i could have eaten so much more but we couldnt stay all day eating there... we had places to go and things to do! We went back to church, and picked up Melissa and Laura and headed to Ashland to go to Lithia Park. Talk about a cool park! It was so awesome! Tons of rhododendrens blooming right now, and all sorts of cool flowers. They have the ponds where there were lots of (tiny) baby duckies. They were so cute... looked like you could just scoop them up in your hand. hehe We saw the Monkey Puzzle Tree, which is this absolutely amazing tree....looks like something you would see in the mission field somewhere.. surely didnt look American! (Is from Chile actually). Laura decided to swing on the branches, and she did just fine, once she got up on Tony's shoulders so she could reach the branches. Then, ummm... Tony decided to swing on the branches. hahaha.... The two branches he was swinging on broke off... so Tony had to hide the branches in some nearby bushes. It was hilarious! Then we found this Cedar Tree, which Tony and I named the Seater Tree.. haha.. It had these nice curved branches that were perfect seats to sit and swing on. That was awesome. We then had supper in the park, and then i took them all back to Grants Pass safe and sound. It was such an awesome day. But i had to do an awful thing at the end of the day: say good bye to Tony. rofl. He is such a cool guy. Oh, that is right.. he does read this.. guess i better shut up.

I am back to go study for my test. I will post pics of my trip later!

Thankful

I am thankful that God answers prayers and that He cares so much about us! :)

Tony and me at the Easter program at his church 

Happy Easter all!

I had a great Easter Sabbath at Tony's church. We went to the gateway church first to hear the Easter Cantata that he sang in, perform at that church. It is sooo pretty! They used a book written by David Clydesdale, and since i love his work, I was just wow'd by the whole thing. :P After that, we ate and then went to the snow! It was a blast! Tony, little Mike, Shon, and Travis went with us. We had a great snowball fight, complete with wrestling, climbing up in the woods to rain snowballs on the people below, and eating snow fests! We packed scooby on the front of Tony's van with snow, and called it a day. It was so much fun. The evening Easter Cantata was even more beautiful than the one at the Gateway Church because they have a better sound system there. It was awesome. Of course, Tony did great, not that i am biased or anything. ;)

It was a great day, and it was so much fun to see Tony again. Too bad he lives so far away.. hehe

On a side note, i got my financial aide award letter from Southern last night and my grants and scholarhips come up to $10,500!!!!!!!! I was so excited! Whooooooooopie! I also have over $10,000 loans available to me as well, so that is cool.

So, it was a great day :)

The hikers at top of Table Rock Mountain :P