Graduation Weekend!!

     Paul graduates this year! He has been so excited ever since the semester started. He has been working hard at keeping up good grades so he can finish his bachelors degree with as close to a 4.0 as possible. He managed to make it. He finished all his classes and kept good grades and now he is graduating! Sad thing about SUU graduation though is that it is still in the middle of my school year. Paul had a commencement ceremony of Friday that I didn't get to go to. I had to teach school! Thankfully his parents came down to support him so I didn't feel too bad leaving him alone on his graduation day.
     Paul's parents drove down from SLC to enjoy the graduation with us. They stayed at Peter and Jessica's, which was great. We didn't have to worry about keeping a crazy clean house while we were crazily trying to get ready for graduation and everything else. Friday I had to work. Paul went golfing with his dad and brother then they all went to his commencement. After they got back and I got back from work the girls went out shopping and then we all went to dinner.
     Saturday morning I went for a nice 5 mile run, then came home and got ready for the convocation ceremony. Paul had to be at the school by 11:00 for his 12:00 ceremony. We had a late breakfast with the family then all headed over to the SUU Centrum. We sat around for an hour and waited, then watched and celebrated as Paul received his bachelors degree in accounting. I am so proud of my husband for working hard and pulling through! After the ceremony, we of course, took some pictures. Then headed home to change.
     For the past few months Paul and I have wanted to get rid of our old falling apart couch and get a new one. We figured waiting until around graduation would be perfect because all of the college kids are dropping off their couches at the DI. Saturday after the ceremony in between everything else, we ran to the DI to look at couches. As soon as we walked in the door, the DI workers were literally bringing in a new couch. It was pretty warn, but it was a leather couch and in decent shape. As soon as the workers set it down, we jumped on it to see if it was worth buying. It was quite dirty, but with some cleaner the couch had lots of potential. We decided not to let anyone else sit on it and purchase the couch for ourselves.
      Now, Paul is graduated, and we have a newish couch. Life is pretty great right now! We basically spent the early hours of the evening hanging out with Paul's family. We had dinner together and then his parents left for SLC. After Rex and Julie left, we went to visit our friends Shay and Ray. They used to live right down the sidewalk from us, but have since moved to Ephraim. We got to be really good friends with the Martel family as well as Ada and Dion Munk (who also moved away). Since Shay and Ray were both graduating this weekend they HAD to come to Cedar. We spent the rest of our evening at Ada and Dion's house with the Martels playing games and just chatting with each other. I am so grateful that we have had times where we can all get together and do things. I have missed all the great friendships Paul and I have made over the course of our stay here in Cedar City.