Aimee and Porter's Graduation!

Isn't is weird how quickly life sometimes goes so quickly? Take my niece for example - She'll be two years this month! I can't even believe it! It seems like she should still be a little infant, but with how big she's grown and how much she talks now, she's definitely in the toddler stage. WEIRD!!!
Anyway, I bring this up because her parents, my sister and brother-in-law graduated yesterday from Utah Valley University!!! I am so excited for them!!!


What a cute family!!!

How cool is it, that with a two year old, they were both able to still get their degrees? I don't know if I would have been that diligent with a baby... which is why God gave THEM the child :)
So, instead of going to their graduation like a nice supportive sister, I babysat their daughter :)


Oaklee and I fighting the wind after a day of bonding together. She loves me!!! :)


You see, I graduate next week, and I don't even want to attend my own graduation, let alone make anyone else attend it. So by watching Oaklee instead, neither Aimee nor Porter will feel obligated to come to Logan next week for mine. I thought it was a great plan!

But back to the beginning when I was talking about how time flies so quickly - I just can't believe that Aimee and Porter have graduated! I can't believe that I'm graduating! It's just such a surreal feeling. When I graduated from high school (which seems like it could have been last year), I thought that if I ever graduated from college (because that was something SO far distant in the future, there was no way I'd ever make it there!) I would be so much older and wiser and that I would know... basically EVERYTHING! Well, I guess it's the general trend now (at least in my life) that as you get older, no matter how much education you have, the less you know. I must say that I never really expected that. I mean really - try telling that to a high school graduate who's on top of the world! There's no way that concept would have grasped. But maybe that's what an education really does for you. It makes you realize that there's really not much you will ever completely understand, and that's just gonna have to be something I deal with!

So... on and on with life I go! 6 years after high school graduation, and being out somewhere around $25,000 for this education - I am technically receiving a bachelors in History and a certificate in gerontology - but I like I am actually getting a diploma in being "historically" illiterate, and a certificate in not having a clue about "aging". But you want to know the real kicker about it all?

If I did it all over again - I would definitely go back and spend even more money if I had to, just to learn nothing ALL OVER AGAIN!!! Getting an education is worth EVERY Penny!!! (even if you come out feeling like you know less) :)

Congratulations to me and everyone else who's graduated this year!!!!