8.17.2011

a day long awaited

PAUL GRADUATED! He finally did it. He's been doing the whole full-time work with part-time school things for 4 years now and with all of my prodding he is now done. I'm so proud of Paul for sticking with it and chipping away at school through such busy times, a broken back, a semester of mono and countless other reasons to drop out or take it even slower. And now he is a BYU alum! Seeing him finish and wear the cap and gown was one of MY proudest moments. 
Thursday we attended convocation in the Marriott center then had a big family dinner at our house. I gave him his graduation gift --a quilt I made out of all our old BYU t-shirts. Friday morning we attended the graduation for the school of Communications where he got to walk across the stage and get his diploma. Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications: Public Relations and a minor in Business Management in true Paul fashion: he was the VERY absolute last graduate inside the Marriott center for the convocation after the big processional. And, when they announced his name to get his diploma, this was his response: 
 
 
 
 
 

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