Cheerful Weekend

Yippee! I graduated this weekend! J

Unfortunately I had a bit of a mishap during my graduation walk… just ask any of the 1000+ people who attended the graduation ceremony.  Yep – they all got to watch my cap fall off while shaking the president’s hand. But, as Ryan says, at least it was caught on video so that we he will be able to laugh about it the rest of our lives!

Don’t worry – if you see us very often, I’m sure Ryan will be thrilled to let you see the video. He’s so proud of his clumsy little wife; after all, I am the only graduate that did anything even relatively embarrassing during the entire ceremony. That even earned me a few giggles in my direction after the ceremony was finished! Lucky me, right? J

Although I have turned bright red each time Ryan has retold the story and showed the video, it actually makes me laugh just thinking about it. Of all the people, it had to be me, when just walking across the stage in front of all those people (without any mishaps) is embarrassing enough! And to the people who will continue to tell me not to worry about my fright of getting in front of people and being the center of attention – I will now have an even more legitimate excuse of why I avoid doing anything of the kind, at all costs! Hahaha. Oh boy. I’m sure there are lessons God is waiting for me to learn through this. I’ll let you know when I figure them out!

Anyway – I was really excited to have my family and a few friends there for support. And I was literally surrounded by people I love ALL day Saturday. 

I’M SO INCREDIBLY BLESSED! 

Among many other things, I am so thankful for being blessed with the opportunity to live in this house until we leave and having the space to be able to have everyone over to celebrate.

We also had a wonderful, festive evening full of friends, food, silly kiddos, and..... 

....tacky sweaters. J

What a weekend!

And now that I’m free of anything school-related, I’m excited to get back into the routine of intensive language study this last month. I’m also really looking forward to my brother coming home for the holidays, who I haven’t seen in a YEAR! And like everyone else, I’m also so excited for all of the family and friend get-togethers coming up!

Alright, I think that’s enough about all of the excitement going on around here. I’ll leave you with a couple of pictures that will either make you say, “Awwww!” or they’ll just make you giggle at how cheesy we can be! 

Because we were so late getting pictures taken (but at least we got some - thanks Mom!!), this post might be as close to Christmas cards as we will get this year!

Maybe here is where I should include: Merry Christmas, from the Weavers! :)