BYU Graduation

Do you think Logan was excited to graduate?

I know I did a fun little Smilebox post but wanted to share few more photos and some info on graduation.

Jim and I left for Utah on Wednesday morning - we drove. Since we were bringing Cali and Clark home with us and a lot of their stuff we needed to drive. Jim was afraid our Suburban wouldn't make it over the mountains ( I so need a new car!!!), our sweet neighbor Debbie O. offered to let us drive their Yukon to Utah.

We arrived in Provo Wednesday night in time to take the kids to dinner - yeah for Cafe Rio!

Thursday the boys all went golfing with Uncle David and I helped Cali load up all of her stuff, make a trip out to Emily's to drop off her winter stuff (thank you Emily and Wynn for letting us leave her stuff there) and then got her all moved out of her dorm. She passed her cleaning check - yeah!

The main commencement was Thursday afternoon at 4:00. Ever wonder what 6, 192 graduates looks like?

It was a wonderful ceremony with both Elder Uchtdorf and Elder Nelson speaking.

We took some fun pictures afterwards with Logan and his buddies - here are his two roommates Lane Olson and Mark Boothe

And the proud mothers!


And of course there was a proud papa too!

We had fun running around campus taking some photos!

We couldn't forget old Cosmos!


or Brigham Young After the Commencement ceremony on Thursday we headed over to Tucano's for dinner. It was also Clark's birthday so it was a double celebration! Actually we were celebrating Logan's birthday too so it was a triple celebration!

Friday morning we got up early to be at the De Jong concert hall at 7:00 a.m. for the college Commencement which began at 8:00 a.m.!

Elder Dallin H. Oaks was the speaker at this ceremony as he had three grandchildren graduating from the College of Communications.

Logan received his diploma at this ceremony! It's official!

And then there were more photo opps after this graduation ceremony!

The proud parents!

The proud family - we missed Tessa who couldn't miss school and some testing that was going on to come with us!

We hadn't eaten since we had gotten up so early so we headed to Magleby's to try and get some food - after a 45 minute wait and still no food we had to leave hungry. Clark had to get to work and Logan had an appointment up in Salt Lake with someone from the Church's PR department so we headed North with him - eating the Magleby's rolls they had given us for free since we didn't get our food!

While Logan was at the Joseph Smith Building for his appointment Jim headed over to the Church History museum and Cali and I went over to the Gateway Mall.

Friday night the boys watched the Blazer game over at Wynn and Emily's while the girls - Tricia, Eryn, Emily, Addy, Jacky, Brendy, Cali and Leigh Anne went out for a girls' night out dinner at Zupa's.

The cars were packed up Friday night (including Clark's white Volvo) and we headed out of town Saturday morning for home. Jim left about an hour before the rest of us in the white Volvo because we figured it wouldn't be able to go as fast and we would catch up with him.

Well, Jim ended up driving the entire way back to Portland by himself as we never caught up with him! I guess all those prayers for the white Volvo paid off and it made it safely home without any problems!

Thanks to David and Tricia for letting us stay with them while we were there and for housing some of Clark's stuff!

1,600 miles later we arrived safely home!!