Clay's Graduation Weekend!

This weekend Josh and I went home for my little brother's High School Graduation. I had so much fun and got to spend a lot of time with my family :)

Clay in his Cap and Gown!

Clay marching in, he is the 3rd person wearing black.

FINALLY! It's OVER! haha It was so cold/boring!

Since we had all of our family there and it was such a huge mob scene, my Mom and I found Clay real quick to take a few pictures.

He is so tall!

Graduation Day was really fun, especially seeing Clay so excited and happy.

On a side note, in the chaos of everyone leaving my house to drive to Graduation I accidentally left my dad at home. I thought he was riding with my Grandparents, so Josh, Kevin, and I left.

Long story short, a few minutes later I checked my phone and I had a missed call from dad and a voicemail saying I left him at home! Opps! So we had to turn around and go get him. I felt so bad! I forgot my Dad at home and he almost missed Clay's Graduation! Whoops!! hahaha

I hope you all had a great weekend!

-Katie

3 Day Week = Many Day Weekend

This Weekend is a BIG Weekend for my (not so little) Little brother!

He's Graduating from High School!

Weeeeiiiiirrd. When he first started driving it was hard to believe, when he got a cell phone it was rather strange (especially when people called him on it! haha), and when he became a ladies man... well now that was just plain awkward.

So now he is Graduating, getting ready to go to the Academy of Art in San Francisco to become a professional photog, but all the while I can't think of him as anyone but the kid I buried in the snow at the cabin or the boy who threw a bottle of ketchup at me (which then exploded ALL over Mom's white kitchen) because I made him mad.

With family and friends coming in from all over, this should be a fun week/weekend!

Congrats Clay!!

-Katie

One Year Ago Today...

...I graduated from Sonoma State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications Studies and two Minors in Business and Anthropology.

Our school has two ceremonies, one at 9AM and one at 3PM. Luckily for me I was in the afternoon one because it was POURING rain all morning and the 1,500 graduates in the first ceremony didn't get to walk, have their names called, or hear any of the speeches - it was terrible! It was still questionable during the 3PM ceremony if we would get to walk because it was raining off and on, but luckily Mother Nature took a break so I didn't have to go gradzilla on anyone.

Here are some of my favorite pictures from graduation, it was such a great day! Our keynote speaker was Ruben 'Hurricane' Carter who gave a really great speech and even brought his trophy belts haha.

My Best Friend Stephanie and I :)

Mother Nature and her daunting clouds! Luckily I had a cute umbrella to carry that day!

Christina, Emily, and I - Freezing our butts off because we were all wet from the rain! Plus we had to sit on the edge of our chairs because they had puddles of water in them!

Getting ready to go up and get my named called.

YAY! I did it! :)

So happy it's not raining and we are going to get food soon.

My family!

So here's to reminicing about a great day, a day that I will remember forever! Congrats to this year's Class of 2009!

-Katie