Big Events (Anniversary & Graduation)

Yes, there are a lot of things going on this December, in fact, two big events were just this last weekend! Sunday was our official 6th Wedding Anniversary, (though we celebrated the weekend before) and Saturday was Joseph's graduation!

For our anniversary date last week, the evening got off to a late start that night. Joseph was supposed to get off of work at 6:00 PM, but called me at 6:30 to say his replacement at the University library hadn't shown up! Finally around seven Joseph was able contact a supervisor and get permission to leave, but they had to close that whole section of the library for him to go, and the guy never came in! Later they learned he was at the University basketball game, and had forgotten all about his shift.

I felt bad for taking our kids to the babysitters so late, but they were kind about it and watched our grumpy kids anyway.

We decided to try out a local Indian restaurant, as we may eventually be moving somewhere where the most culturally diverse food available is Taco Bell.
When we lived in Seattle, eating at different ethnic restaurants was something we enjoyed doing often, but since having kids we haven't done it much at all- for lots of reasons, but the biggest being our kids probably wouldn't eat food like that!
We decided to splurge and started out with a plate of appetisers...a bunch of fried stuff for which I don't remember the proper names. We also got lassi, a yogurt based drink: mine was mango, Joseph's was strawberry. MMMMM!




Then came our main meal, two kinds of chicken curry complete with naan and rice. Joseph's curry was yummier than mine, his was a creamier coconut base while mine was a spicier version. However, he was kind enough to switch with me after our initial tastes. What a nice boy. The coconut kind tasted just like the kind Joseph used to make. Delicious. Now I'm hungry again.



Oh, did I mention we had a little visitor with us on our date? He was a very well-mannered guest, and we were happy to have him along.



Then this Saturday was the big graduation! My parents were awesome to drive all six hours after my mom got off work Friday to attend the ceremony Saturday- then they had to drive all the way home that afternoon!




They also brought my brother Thain from Provo, who rearranged his whole work schedule so he could come. And as we all know, Elora and Josh LOVE Uncle Thain:



Originally, we thought about leaving Elora and Josh with my friend, Sarah, while we went to the program, but at the last minute we decided to bring them along and I was glad I did. There were tons of other people with kids, and with my parents and Thain there, it wasn't hard to keep them happy.



Mom held Jonah almost the whole time, while Thain corralled the other two. Josh went through a period where he wanted to go find daddy, but he got over it after about 20 minutes. He loved clapping and shouting for all the graduates. And kicking the chair of the little boy in front of us.



I was happy to have a better camera than I did for Joseph's community college graduation, because I was able to see him even though we were a distance away from him:


Yeah, it's a little blurry because of how far I had to zoom ....



No really! He's way over there:



We even captured the big moment!


The one dumb thing about the program was the last guy forgot to tell them to move their tassels to the other side. All he said was, "This graduation ceremony is now concluded," or something. So they didn't even cheer or throw their hats or anything. It was a little anti-climatic.

Josh and Elora were very proud of daddy, and he was happy to have us all there:



When we came out, it was really snowing like crazy!

I thought my parents might leave right then to beat the storm, but instead they took us all to lunch. Score!


In case you were wondering, yes, I was there too. And so was that lady behind me.


My family had to leave shortly thereafter, but the rest of us enjoyed Joseph's "special" cake that I made. It says "Good Job Joseph" if you can't see it.
(Oh, and my mom brought us those red balls for our Christmas tree because we were a little short on ornaments for our new tree. Nice, huh?)


Good Job Joseph!