Mother"s Day

So Heidi and I bought tickets to take mom to Threads Easter weekend. All we told mom is that she had to be ready by 5 pm on the 11th of May so we could go out. We took her to Litza's Pizza, which is her favorite and then headed to Cottonwood High to see the show! We had a great time and enjoyed saying hi to Michael and his family after the show. When we got home Phil had a beautiful basket of flowers for mom on the kitchen  table with loads of things she could replant in the yard.
 It was a great weekend with family and loved ones. We surprised Katie by taking her over a vase of flowers and a dress. We also dropped off some much needed clothes for bug. The problem with being the only boy is you  can't wear your siblings hand-me-downs. So Heidi and I went and bought him some shorts and shirts and gave them to Katie along with an outfit for each girl. She was tickled to get flowers on mother's day.

Moving....

This is so how I felt upon returning to my parents house after two years in Ogden. I had to downsize leaving my bigger room and bringing not only all my stuff back but kitchen and bathroom stuff as well. I came home to find all my stuff that I thought was in the garage to make it easier to move my furniture all in my room with a small path to my loft bed...
  So to organize my room to get everything to fit this chickadee played life size tetras. I had to take my bedroom door off in order to get the couch out and would have to move boxes to a corner to move the furniture to the desired spot. After 4 days its finally looking like a room. Now on to job hunting... 

2013 Graduate

Shany and Katie Shock

 Graduation started bright and early at the Dee Events Center at 7:30 am on Friday the 26. In the email they sent all graduates it stated that if you attended the morning ceremony you would receive a bronze Weber State medallion. Of course Paigy and I wanted our medallion so up at 6 am we were. They had us line up by schools so I got to hangout with all my favorite English nerds.  A good chunk of the Metaphor gang was there as well as my friend Katie who was an English major and Photo minor just like me. We meet in our photo classes.

By the epic WSU sign
Heidi, Dad, Shany, and Mom

Dad, Shany, Mom, Heidi

Parentals and I 

Shany and Hoho

My parents and Heidi came for my graduation. Because of Dad's bad back I didn't have my parents stay for the one I walked at. After we met Paigy and her family for pictures at the WSU sign we went back to my apartment to load the truck up with my stuff. Afterwards we went to lunch at a nice BBQ place.

Shany and Paigy
2013 Grads

We did it!

Weird to think we are officially done here...

After lunch Heidi and I had a bit of time to waste. The Telthia School of Arts and Humanities wasn't scheduled to do their ceremony until 2:30 pm. So we visited Deseret Book and Old Navy and then headed back to Campus. I got to hangout with all my English friends again. It was weird to realize I wouldn't be sitting through anymore classes with them. Some of them I may never see again. As I walked across the stage and got hugs from some of my favorite professors I began to realize that I'd done it. I'd gotten my bachelors.

Jenn and Shan
My boss for Metaphor this past year

Pedicures with Paigy

Shany and Paigy getting Pedicures...

beautiful toes...

end results...

So for graduation Paigy paid for us to get pedicures. We went to a place we learned to love while living in Ogden. It was a great way to relax after cleaning our kitchen and ending finals earlier in the week. When we got back we watched some of our favorite movies and ate pizza in the living room. I'm sure gonna miss Paigy when I move back to Salt Lake.

Finals...

This made me chuckle. After my weekend this is exactly how I feel. I can't even go to the gym and work it off because it's under construction. This is my first semester all my classes finals were due or given on the same day. Today was the last official day of classes. My final projects were all due today and I had my final exam in my Spanish class.  I printed my final project for Schwiebert's class, and went to campus on Saturday and printed my pictures off in the lab for Studio Lighting. Now I just hope I do well in all my classes and get everything packed before graduation on Friday morning....

Charlotte is One

Happy Birthday to my name sake! Auntie can't believe that you're already one. Love ya Charlotte Shannon!

Week Fourteen

My oh my its been a hectic week! We had the Gala on Monday and our end of the year awards ceremony in  Metaphor. Its the week before finals so I picked up the strobe lights at 4 on Wednesday and headed to Elizabeth Hall for my last Metaphor meeting. It feels weird to think I won't be back here in the Fall. Hasn't hit yet that I'm done. Josh and his adorable wife were my models that night. We turned their dreary basement into a tea party. I didn't get back until after 10 pm.
  I spent today working on Spanish homework and my final for Dr. S class. I can't believe all my finals are on Monday! Then I get to spend the rest of next week cleaning and packing. Seems like this semester cruised by. I'm not sure if I'm ready to leave Ogden yet....