Jon's Graduation

Friday June 7th was Jon's big graduation day for his Masters degree. I was definitely going to be there. Jon found out that a big chunk of his family was going to be there too. He was way excited to have everyone be there to support him. His brother Joey headed down on Weds so they could do some golfing on Thurs before the main crowd showed up. Kassie & Jared showed up later that day and they went golfing a second time...silly boy. I just about died when Jon told me the game would probably last about 3 hours...3 hours for golf!! I never would have figured. But hey they had a blast and I am glad he got the chance to hang with them.

I took Thurs-Sunday off both jobs and headed south Thursday morning. I made a stop to see the parents and then headed down to meet up with Nicole (sister-in-law), Kathy (mother-in-law) & Bobby (Father-in-law) in Cedar City and drive the rest of the way to Flagstaff. It was a long drive but gave me more of a chance to get to know my new in-law parents. We finally rolled into Flagstaff about 7:30pm. I was so excited to see Jon! We headed out to dinner and just enjoyed the family company. Friday morning Jon and I needed to go out on a hunt for shirts for our engagement pictures we were going to be taking that day. Nicole, Joey, Kassie & Jared joined us on our hunt to find the perfect shirts. We walked through the mall and didn't find anything really. There were a couple of shirts that could have worked but they were solid colors and I really wanted to avoid them since that was like my WHOLE closet. We finally decided to go back to anchor blue and get the plain pink shirt that we had spotted, well we walk and and there it is..the perfect shirt! How I didn't see it the first time, who knows but I tried it on and it worked!! (see pictures below).
So then we headed back to Jon's place and got ready for his big graduation! The lighting SUCKED!! I wanted to so badly get some fun pictures but oh wells. As we waiting for the ceremony to start Jon was texting his siblings and they were telling him to do all these fun poses once he got on stage. He did end up doing some Football run at the very end but my camera didn't do so well with it. :(
As soon as they started walking out he was waving his hand so we could keep an eye on him because there were TONS of people there. He said that he found us by Jaylynn's yellow shirt and my red shirt haha. Even though I have only been part of Jon's life for 1 semester I am so proud of all the hard work he has done. This kid will go so far with this major and I look forward to where it will take us. I am so proud of him!!

After the ceremony was over we all headed out to try and avoid the crowds. We ended up doing pictures in the parking lot on our way to the buses to take us back to our cars. This is Jon with his Dad Ezra. We were very excited to hear that he was going to be coming up for it.

This is his Mom & Step Dad Bobby. You can just see how proud his family is of him and it makes me that much more grateful to be part of this amazing family and to be part of Jon's life.

Afterwards we headed back and did a BBQ. Jon pulled out his hacky sack that he plays with at work with his clients and the boys were like in heaven! They played it all weekend long. Jon only had a sepa but they still had a blast. After the 4 boys played it for a while then us girls got involved. Yeah we sucked at it really bad but we had a ton of fun playing with it. At the beginning they thought the fun was over because Jared hit it just right that it went off the deck and rolled underneath.
Jon (Black) & Jared (purple) had a hard time finding it. Luckily Joey came to the rescue with a..can you believe it..a flashlight :) I guess it had rolled quite a distance and Jared sacrificed himself and got under the deck and pulled it out. haha

We played it that night until we could barely see it anymore. Then the next day the boys decided that they needed REAL hacky sacks and we went to the mall and picked up 2 ..one of Jared and one of Jon. They were much heavier and harder for at least me but it worked better for their 'catching' tricks. I guess Heber bought one for Jaylynn so now pretty everyone who was there has access to one and is playing around..I can totally for see the tournament coming around the corner.

Saturday we headed up the in the mountains to do our engagement pictures. The whole clan decided to join us which made it a very entertaining trip. We stopped at this horse corral to get some fun pictures and the boys

just decided to jump into this horse trough and act like they were rowing a boat. Goofs! I am glad that the owner didn't show up while we were in there..no there were no horses in there..

Jon and I got those pictures where you are holding hands and walking away from the camera..well Nicole and Joey decided that they needed to show us the proper way to do it...

These are some of our favorites from that day...do you like the shirts :)

Now to get an actual wedding date so we can get our announcements out :)

All in all it was a fabulous weekend!! I was happy I got to meet so many new in-laws and have a blast with them at the same time. I am very excited for the future and the fun and joy my future holds!