Seems like the past month or so has been very crazy! Chels and Brian went to Orem two weekends ago to go to his gma's 80th birthday party. I drove down to Spanish Fork to spend some time with them and my mom and sisters. While we were visiting at Shelly's house, Ashy had her bearded dragon with her. Chels and Brian just went nuts for the dragon and Chels was then on a mission to get one for herself. We found one on KSL.com that was just miles from our house (actually a couple Chels used to babysit for and Jade's former scout leader) and included an awesome cage and all the other stuff dragons need. Chels decided that's what she wanted for a college graduation gift, and asked us to pick it up for her and bring it out to Twin Falls when we go out for her graduation ... so we did. I was terrified of "Yoshi" to begin with, but then realized they are really no different than a cat or dog. They depend on you for food and water and really love attention. My goal was to keep Yoshi alive until we made the trip to Twin. He finally warmed up to me after being here a couple of days, and didn't even seem to mind the grandkids, dogs or cats!
Then we headed to Twin Falls with him. His cage is so LARGE that we had to tie it down to the top of Glen's Pathfinder and I held Yoshi on my lap in a shoe box. I was so worried about him dying in the box as it was hot and steamy in there. Kandice was with us for the trip and she was TERRIFIED that the lizard was going to climb out of the box and get in her hair. He did fine on the ride - he even pooped - which had been an issue for Yoshi not pooping regularly after he came to our house. He wanted to be up seeing everything and didn't mind the car at all.
We finally delivered him safe and sound and got ready for the graduation.
We met up with Brian's parents and went to dinner before the graduation and got to the campus for the ceremony about an hour early. We got really good seats near the stage and just figured we'd hang out and wait for the graduation to start. It was all good aside from the organ music ... Kandice and I felt like we were waiting for church to start. He/she (couldn't ever actually see the organ - we decided they hid the organ to keep people from throwing stuff at he/she) was playing music that was a cross between hymns and baseball game music.
The ceremony finally started and our hearts filled with pride! Chels was graduating summa cum laude with a 4.0 gpa (WOW) and a member of the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society. She had ropes and scarves signifying each one of her accomplishments, and her surgi tech advisor had made them green scarves to wear to signify the medical surgical tech program. She was seated in the second row because of her accomplishments with the honor students! She looked so beautiful and I can't explain how proud we were!
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She had hurt her ankle the day before graduation and could barely walk. She wrapped it in order to be able to walk across the stage to get her diploma. She did fine!
After graduation we spent some time at Brian and Chelsie's apartment visiting and then headed to the hotel for bed. We stayed at a nice hotel - terrible beds and pillows. Glen, Kandice and myself all woke up the next morning (really didn't sleep) and all felt the same.
We were going to go to the campus to take some photos of Chels in her cap and gown, but she woke up Saturday morning not able to walk so we just did a little shopping and sight seeing at the falls and the gorge. Poor girl - Brian went to the pharmacy and rented her some crutches but she still was miserable trying to get around. The falls and gorge were beautiful and green!
Yoshi seems to be SUPER happy in his new home with his new family. Chels and Brian love him and I think they're excited to have him - I kinda miss the little guy.
CHELSIE WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU! She has worked so hard for the past two years and done excellent work in school. I can't believe she had a 4.0!! Quite an accomplishment, and thanks to Brian too for all his support of my sweet daughter for the past two years! Love you.
