graduation!

Ok, some of you have been patiently waiting for these, so here they finally are!

First off the actual ceremony. Sorry if the collage makes your eyes hurt, it is a little busy, but it give you the play by play of what happened (without me having to upload 20 pictures individually). I'm pretty easy to pick out in the first picture, which should help with the rest of them.

Here I am afterward, holding the very expensive piece of paper!

Here is Michael wearing my hat & holding the expensive piece of paper!

Here is a shot of everyone who came out to be here for grad from BC (thanks to all of you for coming, it means a lot):

Michael's Mom came too, but this is the only shot I have that she's in.

This one is just for laughs! Don't we look dorky?

The same afternoon of the ceremony there was a "ringing ceremony" specifically for Human Ecology Grads. This ring that we get is a symbol of what Human Ecology is all about and to get it we had to say a little pledge of committment to professionalism. I was going to post a link to it, but it's apparently not on their website, sigh. I will post a link to a "definition" for those of you who don't have a clue what sort of an education I just finished getting. I also won an award at this ceremony, a paid for memebership to the professional association for one year.

Last, but not least was the formal grad dinner the following evening. Here's a few shots from that:And this one I'm putting in, because I can't get over how much it reminds me of another picture of a much younger me. This pose (which my Dad took when I didn't know) reminds me of a picture he took when he wanted to play around with lighting and needed a subject. Dad do you know which one I mean? Do you have a copy of it around still, I'd like to compare them!
For those of you who are wondering how long this is, this is the last picture and then the post is finally done. These are the actual cap & gown studio shots: