The Long Awaited Over-due Graduation Post!

So this year has been very eventful especially with graduation. I graduated with my bachelors degree from BYU. Starr graduated with her associates degree from BYU-I. Teal Graduated from high school as salutatorian. And last, but certainly not least as class president Madison was promoted from eighth grade! Here are some cool pictures of it all! (sorry for the picture overload!)

This is Macy

These are her fans from the Henze clan.

These are some of Macys amazing professors, she likes all who are pictured and did well in their classes. There may be a connection, but I can't say for sure.

These are Macy's fans from the Collins clan.

This is Hallie another of Macy's fans and Ron's pride and joy.

Now on to Teals graduation, we were so happy to go as Levi's smile represents our true feelings.

Lexi even gave her famous princess smile! She was so excited and loves being in the car for hours on end.

Here we are in our very good seats! (Thanks to my dad for coming 3 hours early.....he likes to be prepared what can I say)

Here is Madi pondering life with Teal graduated and gone.

Grandpa, Grandma, and Uncle Rick enjoying the time they get to spend together before the commencement.

Starr is very observant shining for the whole world to see!

Mom and Dad at peace that another will be leaving soon.

Lexi Sandwich! Yum.

Teal sitting on the stage so superior!

Getting her diploma......finally.

Yeah she made it big hugs from Mom and Dad!

Madi so happy that she is going to be the oldest at home. The one thing she has wished for her whole life and she just can't contain her emotion!

Yeah the ceremony is over! (Thank heavens there were only 74 graduates!

The proud parents and their new grad!

Wow look at all these beautiful girls and all in the same family!

We all felt this way when the day was done Levi was the only one to be true and show how we all felt!

Here at Madi's 8th grade promotion we were so lucky to sit behind Luke.

Madi was the class president and won junior elks student of the year!

Madi gave a speech, and only thanked the boy she likes who wasn't there, for letting her wear his jersey. Don't worry taught I Madi a lesson on loyalty.

Carl also was promoted, but I had a hard time getting pictures of him :(

Well thankfully if you did indeed look at this whole post you will be happy to know that I am done for now, and  hope to have some cool and fun things to update in the near future!

Little Bit'O Tennessee Rain

Just a short update!

Summer is here in Knoxville and I have really enjoyed many of the new changes this past month. The first change I noticed after I came back after having been gone for a week is the increased humidity. Next I noticed that in the evening there were fireflies everywhere! I love them so much it is so cool to see them twinkling every night. 

Summer Knoxville Sunset

Little Town of Knoxville

Third the rain here is crazy. Just the other day it was sunny and hot around 1pm within 15min. torrents of rain were pounding the trees. I took some pictures of the rain pounding the trees, but I am not sure it captures the intensity of the rain. I actually recorded the  rain with the ole camcorder, but I don't know how to put videos on here so the pictures will just have to do!

As you can see the rain drops are huge!

For this picture you will notice the color difference from the picture above. This is because the rain was really coming down and you are looking at the trees through more water.

Just one more picture of the trees getting beat by the heavy rain!

Well now you know why the humidity has increased inviting my new firefly friends!

The Rest of May before I left

I will start off saying that I had a wonderful mothers day thanks to my husband being the good man he is. We went to dinner and to the movie theaters the night before to celebrate. 

Mothers Day Celebration!

             Next we celebrated my 24th birthday yeah for me I'm getting old! But, this was the very best birthday I have ever had, it was so much fun. First Ron made me his specialty for breakfast french toast and eggs and it was delightful. Then we went to the mall where Ron spoiled me rotten and gave me a little shopping spree. It was so fun to buy new cloths! Next we decided we were going to go mini golfing, we put the address in our GPS and it took us to a different mall where they sold the brand of stuff for the mini golf course that we had looked up on the internet. So we decided to watch a movie at the mall the new Shrek movie it was really funny.

We were very hungry after the movie so we decided it was time for some Memphis BB-Q at Sonny's and it was sooooooo GOOD! We had brisket, pulled-pork, fried okra, baked beans, salad, garlic bread and coleslaw. The sauce there is amazing and just leaves you wanting for more. Finally we found a golf course that had a batting cage. This was so fun Ron may or may not have beat me at golf, but we really didn't keep count so its hard to say. (I'm making banana bread right now and it smells so good!!!!) Any way we practiced our hitting at the batting cage and it was a blast I had so much fun. Ron took the day off of work which he almost never dose so this was a very special day and I love him so much he takes such good care of me and treats me like a queen.

Me getting ready to hit, I was really nervous, but it was really fun!

  This is my handsome husband he is really good at hitting and looks good doing it.