Pompously Circumstantial

So with much anticipation, nail biting, and excitement ... Aaron graduated ... FINALLY.  The entire reason for my trip home is now complete (which means I'll be heading back soon ...).

I was excited to discover that two of my three freshmen from senior year were the salutatorian and valedictorian!!  Hurray!!! So proud of them!!

The Sal was awarded her medal

The Val spoke.

The PCHS graduating class of 2012
Congrats, guys!

Apparently, when people graduate, we take lots of pictures ... but I didn't want to TOTALLY bombard you ... so here are a few of the important and priceless ones.

Everyone's attitude going in to graduation ... you can tell who's excited to be there and who's not ... 

Congratulations to all the graduates!!!

The proud (and relieved) parents

And because I've bored you with graduation pictures, I reward you with a sweet treat!!  These are our traditional graduation cupcakes which we make every year!

All you need are:

Reese's Minis

Chocolate Covered Grahams/Cookies (they have to be rectangular)

Fruit Roll-Ups

Chocolate Frosting

Chocolate Cupcakes (Made and Frosted!)

Unwrap the Reese's Minis.  Put frosting on the bottom of a Reese's Mini and put the Mini on the cupcake upside down.  Cut the Fruit Roll Up in Half long ways and in half short ways.  Make slits in one end of each square and then roll it up to look like a tassel.  Put frosting in the end without the slits and stick it to the top of the chocolate covered graham.  Put the graham on top of the Reese's and voila!!  Graduation Cupcakes :]

Celebrate Good Times

Aaron graduated from Seminary!

The proud Parental Units

The Whole Fam-Fam!

So we decided to celebrate!

Homemade Double Decker Cookie Cake by Yours Truly

Ice Cream, Root Beer Floats, Cookie Cake, and Pink Lemonade = The Celebration of Champions

High School Graduation Tonight ....

... May the force be with us.

Avengers Assemble

Midnight showing of avengers=

Big purse to sneak in drinks +

Playing catch phrase in the theater for an hour and a half +

Drinking Powerade all day +

Only getting two hours of sleep before an 8 hour day at work +

Shawarma =

AWESOME

Seriously, they should stop now because it can't be topped.  Ever.  By anything.

It's THE best.

V is for Vegas and W is for Weddings

A wedding?  I love weddings!

And in Vegas, nonetheless.

Two of my favorite peoples, starting their new life together <3

Aren't they purty :]

G and D, I love you guys.  I know you'll be very happy together and this marriage thing will work out for both of you.  G, it's still hard to think that you're not coming back to live with me, but I'll get used to the idea, eventually.  D, I know you love her and I'm glad that if she had to move, it was to marry you.  That being said, you know I'm a country gal and I take care of the things I love and you better be nice to her or you'll have me to answer to.  And you both better keep in touch!

Love you, Gigi.

"Now you're my whole world." -Brad Paisley

Their reception was so cute!  Cookies and Milk were the entree of choice.

Cookies are small circles of love. (especially if they're made of chocolate ...)

10 different kinds, including bride's favorite and groom's favorite
(Chocolate Chip, Homemade Oreos, Snickerdoodles, Pecan Delights, Chocolate Crinkles, Oatmeal Raisin, Cinnamon Chip, Gingersnaps, Peanut Butter Blossoms, and Sugar)

We go together like cookies and milk.

Strawberry, chocolate (not pictured ...) , and plain

  And they went a little country.

A most excellent way to spend the week-end, in my opinion.

New Semester, New Roommates!

This is Ariel (not like the everyone else says the Disney princess' name, but like Sebastian says it):

I had to find a funny picture ... but she's actually quite gorgeous :]

Told you.

She's super fun! We've already decided to do movie nights at our apartment every week and she's agreed to go dress shopping with me (I am in sore need of a new dress ...). :]  She's also an RA with me, so we have fun in all kinds of ways (like cleaning checks!  Those are fun, right? ... *fake smile*)

And we thought it would be just the two of us.  Super fun, super small, and super carefree!

But on Monday, I got a call from the Office asking if I would mind another roommate.

So, without further ado, this is Lu (I can't say or spell her real name, but we've decided to call her Lu)

I should get points for this creeper shot :]

She's from Taiwan and she's SO sweet!!  When I left for work this morning, I told her I would be back around eight o'clock tonight.  She said, "Oh, it's so long!" and gave me a hug like we'd never see each other again!  She's just learning English (sound familiar, anyone?), so it's kind of hard to communicate sometimes, but we're getting along quite well and she's very talkative for not knowing a lot of English. :]

In other news, after work this week, I will be rollin' in the dough, if you know what I mean.  During the school year, since we're all also students, we have a limit of 20 hours a week.  But during the summer, we can go up to 40 hours.  And it just so happens that these past two weeks are two of the three busiest weeks of the year: Finals week and Women's Conference.  Final's week is busy just because of all the people trying to find subs for their shifts.  It's amazing how many more phone calls you get when you can work anywhere in the Food Court ... jus' sayin'.  Women's Conference involves bajillions of women coming to campus for two days and spending about 40-50 dollars in that amount of time on food alone ... they like their BYU brownies ... and their Navajo Tacos ... and their BYU ice cream ... and their Subway ... and their salads ... And we have to have double the winter crew size, but with half of the people.  Needless to say ... it's SO fun ... and crazier than a chihuahua at a piccolo concert.  Between those two days, I'm scheduled for 24 hours ...

Thursday + Friday = more hours than I am allowed to work in a normal fall/winter week ... 

It's gonna be ballin'!  

Je suis hereuse que j'aprend francaise parce que maintenant, je comprend ce blague. :]

Summer Nights in the Making

Dude.

School's Over.

SUMMER!!!!! 

A few parting thoughts from this year:

And a little diddy to bring in the summer:

Le Français.

Je suis sol.  Cette soir, je pense dans français et j'assise dans mon lit.  C’est un peu triste, non ?  Non.  Mais, hier et aujourd’hui, j’ai travaillé tout le jour.  Hier, j’ai parti mon appartement à six heures du matin et je suis retournée à neuf heures et demie du soir.  Aujourd’hui, c’était la même chose.  Pour ça raison, je suis très fatiguée.  Il y a beaucoup de chose que je devrai faire, mais … je veux dormir. 

Savais-tu … que dans la langue français n’y a pas un mot que signifie « awkward ».   C’est bizarre …