Graduation

Christian graduated on Wednesday, May 19th. I took a half day off of work. When I got home, Christian was still asleep. So I fixed waffles and we had breakfast/lunch together. Then it was time to get ready and off to graduation we went. When we got in the car, I remembered that we forgot Christian cap and gown! Luckily we remembered before we got to the stadium. All the way there Christian was worried that we would get there late and he wouldn't be able to graduate. But he did. Here are a lot of pictures from graduation:

Christian liked it that his cap matched the inside of his new suit.

Grandma wanted a picture of Christian throwing his hat in the air.

Trevor came to Christian's graduation. Besides being a close family friend, he is also one of Christian's church and Scout leaders. He started Christian in 11 year old Scouts and he now once again with him as a Venture Scout.

After graduation ceremony we went out to eat at Macaroni Grill. Christian got his present then - an iPod. He was surprised and liked that it had more storage than mine:)

Once we got back to Mom and Dad's, Mom wanted to take pictures - a lot of pictures!

This is my favorite one of Christian.

I like this one too!

After all the pictures, it was time to relax. We all changed and then watched a video I had made for Christian. It was his life from birth to now. He remembered quite a few of the pictures and talked about the memories. I loved it.

Then it was homemade ice cream and cookie time while we watched North Avenue Irregulars (Christian didn't think he'd like it, but he did and was laughing through the whole movie) and Avatar.

After Avatar, I went to bed as it was 12:30 am (Dad had gone to bed after North Avenue Irregulars). I think Mom went to bed too. Christian stayed up and watched other movies and just played and enjoyed his freeedom from high school. He told me the next morning that he finally went to bed when I got up at 6:30. What a night!

Seminary Graduation

Seminary graduation was Sunday, May 16th. It was a nice, small ceremony at our stake center. Afterwards, we took some pictures at our house. Here are some of my favorites.

This is a friend of ours, Matt.

Christian's Senior Pictures

Christian got his Senior pictures done. Here are some of my favorites:

Christian says this one reminds him of Smallville.

Christian wanted a picture with the back of his tennis practice shirt.

I love Christian's little half smile. I am glad the photographer got him smiling it. I can't believe he has grown up and is graduating in little over a month. He's my baby - grew up too fast!

We even got some family pictures too.

I got Christian to smile for this one.

This is probably my favorite one of us.

This one was taken when Christian was trying to tip me over his shoulder into the sand. He did it too.

White Tanks Waterfall Hike

Getting ready for our hike to the waterfall in White Tanks Mountain.
Mom was taking lots of pictures of the flowers in the desert. She said she needed to show people that the desert was beautiful.

Christian was determined to bring his canteen on this hike. He didn't for his practice hike in White Tanks earlier that week and he regretted it. This time he brought it and didn't really need it.

Christian and Mom went on ahead while I walked with Dad. Mom is at the top. She made it!

Christian decided to hide from us - too bad; I found him.

In order to get to the waterfall, you need to cross the stream on the rocks. Here is Dad trying it. He looks a little wobbly - watch out:)

He made it across the tricky part and got turned around on the last rock. Down he went! The other people were worried about him, but we were just laughing (including Dad).

"I made it!" he said.

Christian came around the other side of the stream through a tiny hole. He said I could have made it if I tried. (I climbed over the rock on the side of this picture.)

The waterfall - we were glad it had water.

After seeing three girls go across the pool to climb up the rocks, Christian decided to do it too. (There was second pool higher up that you couldn't see.)

There he goes.

He got up there - so did the girls.

The waterfall is behind Christian and the second pool is off to his side. He could see it but we couldn't.

When Christian got down he decided he wouldn't even try not to get wet and just went all the way in.

Since Christian was already wet, we made him help Dad across the rocks so he wouldn't fall down again. Christian even helped another lady across as well. What a gentleman!

Mom decided to try my way. She went over the rock I did on my way to the waterfall.

I tried Christian's way - through this small rock. Mom thought I was crazy and would get stuck. I didn't. I made it through the rocks :0)

The hike was enjoyable. That night we all went up by the lake and watched Alvin and the Chipmunks the Squeakual. It was fun. Then we found out it was a double feature with New Moon. Dad decided he didn't want to see it (it was already after 9:00). Mom and Christian ran home (in the car) and got more treats, more blankets (it was cold), and Mom got into longer pants. Then we watched New Moon. We got home after 11:00 after having a wonderful day and Spring Break.

Read the next post for more info about our Spring Break.