Graduation Celebration!

I'm a little late in posting this, but I consider it one of the most exciting things ever! On May 24, 2009 Ryan graduated from SDSU! My parents, Ryan's parents, Ryan's Aunt Patti and Uncle Scott and my older sister and her daughter were all able to come here for graduation weekend. My family got here on Saturday and so we got to do some fun stuff with them that day. On Sunday Ryan's parents, Aunt and Uncle arrived a little while before the graduation ceremony began. My sister and niece were kind enough to stay at our apartment with Addy, because the ceremony was during her naptime. I also figured that a 19 month old and a 3 hour long ceremony don't mix so well. Once we arrived at the stadium at SDSU I became so excited about the whole thing. All the work and sacrifice that Ryan had put into these past 2 years was finally paying off! I was so happy for him! I got a little teary eyed when his graduate adviser hooded him. I got even more teary eyed when they called his name and he walked across the stage. After he walked across he was supposed to go back to his seat for the rest of the undergrads (which there were a ton of!) to be called. I was video taping the whole thing and I watched him walk down from the stage and then just keep on going. He walked all the way around the stadium and headed for the nearest exit! I think we were all grateful that he decided to leave early and we didn't have to sit there for another hour waiting for the rest of the names to be called. After the ceremony we took lots of pictures and then we came back to our place for food. It was such a fun little celebration and I was so glad that our families were able to be here with us. They have been our main source of support for these last 2 years and we couldn't have made it through grad. school without them! I love Ryan with all my heart and am so proud of him for getting his master's degree!


Ryan, making one of his many faces

The spread

This was the wall decoration that I made. Pretty funny, huh?

Ry with one of his good friends from the program, Steven Vong

Looking very scholarly

Aunt Patti and Uncle Scott with the recent graduate

Ry and me with my parents

Ryan and his proud parents

Ry and I right after his graduation

This was what Addy was doing during the party

My sister took this picture of Addy and I love it! It's so hard to catch her with an actual smile and I'm glad we got one!

As you can tell, Addy wasn't too pleased about taking this one!

I love this picture of Ryan and Addy!