Class of 2011!

It is finally over! The day that I have been looking forward to for basically my whole life, but definitely the past 6 years, is finally here! I am a graduate of Weber State! I literally never thought I would live to see this day. I can't say yet whether the $30,000, countless nights of sleep lost, innumerable cold sores, miles put on my car, and bins of books that are stashed at the Gunter's is worth it or not but hopefully when I get a job I will be able to say that it was! I am just more happy than I could ever express that I will never have to go to Weber State again except for the Fireworks and I will never have to pay another dime to that hellacious place (once my parking tickets are paid)! I am ecstatic!

Graduation day was so fun! I didn't know if it would be boring or not but it was actually so so great!

The stage before the ceremony started.

Walking to our seats...

Receiving my empty diploma holder.

Braden also graduated the same day so we are both cute little 2011 graduating cousins!

Kallee and Whitney came to my graduation. It was so nice of them because graduations are pretty boring. I love them!

Grandma and Grandpa Smith came to support both Braden and I. They are so cute!

Grandpa and Grandma with both of their graduates.

Mackenzie graduated too!

My family. Except for Morgan. She is too good of a student to miss school.

Morgan and I when she got home from school.

We went to Mandarin for dinner that night with everyone to celebrate.

Me with the cake that Annie made us! It was so cute!

My Grandpa and Sandie were out of town during graduation so they took me to Maddox. It was really fun and nice of them. It is one of my favorite places to eat.

All three of us.

I loved graduation day and am so glad that I finished school! Now no matter what happens I'll always have my degree. I love everyone that supported me! I have gotten lots of cards, money, my favorite ring ever, a nook, and books from people. Graduating is the best!

It's the Greatest Time of Year!

Christmas! I love Christmas and everything that comes with it! I love getting new pajamas, seeing family, opening presents, and just relaxing. I didn't take too many pictures unfortunately.

Shadie with the stocking filled with such fun things that Santa brought her. She loved it all!

Mylie with her stocking. She wanted to get down to eat her yummy treats! She loved them too!

Morgie with our massive pile of presents.

Lynie with the presents.

Tyler.

Me with the presents.

The puppies LOVE the candy canes that they always get in their stockings. It is a tradition that Santa always follows through with!

Mom getting all emotional about her new band that my dad got her for Christmas. It is really beautiful. Cute Dad!

My dad probably getting all emotional about his new gun that he put on hold for himself at Cal-Ranch. I don't get the obsession with guns. Isn't one gun the same as the next?

Our dressed up family at Grandpa and Grandma Smith's house on Christmas. Lynsie said that she just wanted to be able to relax on Christmas.

The whole family on Christmas. Todd is really good at setting the timer on his camera.
Merry Christmas everyone! Ours was really great!

Jaron is Home!

These 2 years went by sooo fast! I seriously can't even believe how fast they went by. It seems like he just barely left. We all went to the airport to welcome him home!

Here is Colton waiting patiently and excitedly to see his favorite brother.

All of the girls waiting for J!

Colton and I getting so excited!

Here is the whole group with our Welcome Home posters. Mine says, "My iPod and I have missed you!" I thought that it was pretty clever.

Here he is! The person that we've all been waiting for!

First time that Jaron and Mary see each other. It was so cute!

The best brothers finally see each other! They were so happy! Colton sure loves him!

All of the cousins back together! Its been 3 years since Ty and Jaron have seen each other.

The family back together again.

Jaron and the Parentals.

The best part about airports are the automatic walkways. Imagine my disappointment when it was broken. I really think that Weber State should invest in these all over campus.

Jaron lost a lot of weight while on the mish. This picture shows it perfectly! So jealous!

Welcome home J! So glad that you are home and that we are Glee buddies now!

Brad Praisley!

I can't believe that I have never seen Brad Paisley in concert until now! I have always loved him but things always kept happening to make me never able to see him. :( I was not going to miss him this year no matter what.

The concert was at Usana and so we had to go down early to get in line so that we would get a good spot on the grass. Steph took the day off so that she could come down with me and Hollie and BreAnn. We left way later than we had planned so I was pretty stressed.

This is what we saw when we got to Usana. What the? Usually when we go to wait in line for Kenny there are at least 100 people at around 12:30ish. We didn't even get there until 2:30 and there were only 2 girls there. At least we were first in line! I could not even believe that no one was there.

We still had fun waiting for the gate to open! We played some skipbo and just hung out for a few hours until the mad dash of running to the grass began!

After we got our seats we had another hour of waiting to do.

Hollie, BreAnn, and I had to buy our shirts with hot Brad Paisley on it.

Then the concert finally started! It started with Jimmy Wayne but I didn't get any good pictures of him. Then It was Dierks! I love him! I forget how much I love him! This was my second time to see him and he doesn't disappoint. He has so many good songs! Then the moment I've been waiting for... Mr. Brad Paisley!!!

Brad had so many guitars that he used. They were super sweet. I couldn't ever get a very good picture of it though.

Oh my gosh! He is so handsome!

For his song Celebrity he had it set up like guitar hero! It was so cute! I loved it! There was even a surprise guest to play guitar hero...

Taylor Swift! Wahoo! She was only on the screen but it was still pretty exciting!

During the middle of the concert it started to pour and there was tons of lightning. I was kind of scared that we were going to get struck! But I thought the rain actually made it really fun! Steph and I loved it!

Jenilyn doesn't look like she is too happy about the rain! Ha ha.

Alcohol is the song that Brad ended with and it was a pretty cool stage set up. I was sad that it had ended.

This is the whole crew! I am so grateful for all of my concert buddies! We always have so much fun at the concerts! Thanks for always coming with me guys! I hope we keep doing this forever. Thanks for the fun times!