We Have Ourselves a Graduate!

It's been four long years but the day has finally come. Chris graduated on Friday! Both sets of parents flew to Texas to join the celebration and Friday afternoon we all drove to San Marcos to cheer for our daddy, son, and husband; it was a festive occasion. We ate an early dinner at Logan's and then hurried off to campus to take pictures of our graduate. After that we waved goodbye to Chris as he left to receive his diploma.

Kaylee was just barely born when Chris went back to school. It's hard to believe he's been in school all four years of her life. Both Kaylee and Landon don't know any different and I'm sure Ainsley doesn't really remember either.

We are so grateful to our parents for the love, support and help they've given us along the way. We've had some very difficult times and couldn't have done it without them. Both sets of parents have been incredibly supportive.

I'm very grateful to Chris for enduring everything he went through. He was working full time and going to school full time almost the entire four years. Plus, he was trying hard to be a good husband and father while getting his homework done. He stopped working full time and went to part time when he started having to commute to San Marcos for class twice a week. After driving to San Marcos Friday afternoon I don't really know how he survived going that distance twice a week the last two semesters. It's an hour and fifteen minute drive each way and took two tanks of gas a week. No wonder he called it the "San Marcos Death March."

We do have lots of good memories of the last four years. Just because there were hard times doesn't mean we didn't have a lot of fun too. We did what we felt was right for our family and Chris and I grew closer in the process.

When this all started it seemed like it would take an eternity. I think in Chris' opinion it did take an eternity but to me it's crazy how time flies. I knew that as I was feeling this would never end, I'd eventually look back and see what a small portion of time it really took.

We are excited to start our next chapter. Chris was hired at National Instruments as a Programmer Analyst and will start working for them on May 19th. Hooray!