Graduation.

How many people have actually had the honor of walking across a stage for graduation? Not too many? I did actually graduate from high school. I got my GED so I did not get to walk with my fellow class of 1995 classmates. I did however graduate from college and that was amazing. Walking across the stage and everyone witnessing your accomplishment- it was a memory I won't ever forget.

My very dear and close friend's son graduated this past May. Us being as close as family went along.

(Before the seats were filled)


There were 642 graduating seniors and out of that 5 of them had a full scholar ship to the Naval Academy worth more than 400,000.00! I was amazed. They said that this was the first in the school's history that more than 2 students received this award. I was shocked!

As you can imagine it was going to take awhile to get through 642 graduates. We came prepared. We had Billy bring his game boy so there was no whining or complaints of being bored.

After the graduation we all walked outside to meet up with our graduates. This is what we found:

We're not sure why he was sleeping there at 11:30 in the morning. We are sure of two things:

1) That he was not there when we went in.
2) He was breathing!

This is just a picture of Sabryna in the gardens out side of the Bud Walton Arena after the ceremony.


There is a good reason they call these ceremonies "commencement exercises." Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning. ~Orrin Hatch