The Graduation

The time has finally come- riley and allison are official baccalaureate graduates, and as such will be making 50k more than non-graduates, by virtue of their degree. Hopefully. We'll have to wait five years to see. But according to riley's research we'll already make more anyways because we are married.
Nuff about salaries.  We won't have one for a while anyway.

Let's start with the day of commencement. The econ department had a nice lunch where families came and met professors. These are the 388/588 TA's with Professor McDonald. (am I allowed to have favorites? If so, he's my favorite)

 This is Grant. They research together.  

Thursday at 4 in the Marriott Center:

Waiting for gpa and gma serafine to pick him up. I think he was excited. 

Dean Ogles took this picture for us. He's a big deal.

Cecil.

Elder Perry. His talk was awesome

With Greg and Becca. or as riley and call them- brec and grecca.

With gma and gpa bradshaw!

Then there was convocation-- where riley got to where this:

And we sat on the stand. We were blessed to have really great supporters there. Namely: Mom, Dad, Katelyn, Grandma and Grandpa,

 Merrill and LouJean,

 and Kelli (not pictured, erin, elsie and Bennett- wait was bennett even there? I think he was playing pretty hard on the playground the whole time)

Graduating inspired us to hike the Y the following day.  For those who think that is an easy hike- you are wrong. It is one mile up. and I mean UP. No flat ground until you get back to your car. Nevertheless, it was very fun! Benson really enjoyed the ride.

relaxing before the hike