Danielle's Graduation and Our Utah Trip

Me and the graduate!

My baby sister, Danielle, graduated from BYU last week! I know, I know you are excited about this as well. Danielle managed to keep up the Cronquist trend of finishing in four years and graduated with a BA in English and an editing minor. Hopefully she'll have an amazing job editing soon. Since this was a pretty big occasion James and I (Jed had to work on account of taking a month off earlier this year to study for the boards) decided to head out to Utah to be there for the festivities. Well technically I decided to head out to Utah and made James come with me - in fact, James made it known during the graduation ceremony that he had not chosen to attend this event and we spent a lot of the time outside with what appeared to be every other toddler in the Marriott Center. But we did manage to listen to most of the speakers before James decided he was done with graduation and we at least were able to slip back inside to watch Danielle walk across the stage.

James checking out some flowers during commencement (the big whole University ceremony that James and I decided to skip in hopes that he would be happier to sit through the ceremony for Danielle's college the nest day)

James loved the top of the JFSB

 Along with the graduation itself we also got to spend a nice few days with my family eating delicious food, chatting, and just general visiting. It's always nice to get a couple days with family - especially since I hadn't seen them since Christmas.

After graduation weekend, James and I went to spend a few days with Jed's family - since we'd already made the flight to Utah it would have been silly to head back without letting James visit both sets of grandparents. While there we spent a lot of time visiting, a lot of time awake in the middle of the night since James was in a different place, visited Jed's grandpa's farm (which James thought was AWESOME [yes, all capitals]) and both got colds. It was a lovely trip. We can't wait to see everyone (from both sides of the family) again this summer!

James with his cousin Brooke, Grandpa and Great Grandma - they are sitting in his Great Great Grandpa's old rocking chair.

Petting horses

And bunnies

And a dog

James with his Great Grandpa and Chloe

Grandma Kendall reading with all the grand kids