Sunday, August 23, 2009

Mom's Graduation!! May 2, 2009



On May 2, 2009, Mom graduated from Utah Valley University--Summa Cum Laude (that means she had nearly straight A's!!)--with a Batchelors of Fine Arts, and with an emphasis in Illustration. It was such a proud day to be there and watch her receive her diploma at the top of her class!! What an accomplishment after raising 7 kids and still being grandma to 15 or so grandkids! We are so proud of her. Below is Dad, Granny and Mom.

Here's all of my family with Mom, Dad and Granny. (Mahonry is trying to hide back there). We took the girls out of school so they could see Lol graduate. What a great example she is for all of us. By the way, for those of you who don't know, our kids call Mom "Lol," a name coined for her by Laurel when she could barely talk. So it doesn't stand for "Laugh out loud," although she does make us do that sometimes. =)
At the after-party we gave Lol a book of artwork done by each one of her grandchildren (it is already outdated!). Here she is opening it with the grandkids watching eagerly.

This is at our house just as the party was starting. Not everyone was there yet, but we got some of the grandkids in their cute grad-hats that Di made. In this picture are mine and Maho's kids, as well as Henry and Di's (far left and front and center). Those little caps were SO CUTE (not quite as cute as the little subjects wearing them). Di made one for each of the grandkids.


I just LOVE this photo! Isn't she cute?

Okay, now the name LOL is appropriate for her. The Groucho Marx look is in keeping with the great Stewart tradition, a gift from Uncle Rob and Aunt Bec. Mom is holding her Summa Cum Laude metal.
And don't look too closely but she is also wearing a BYU sweatshirt--on her graduation day!!
(She was cold--it's my sweatshirt, but we won't tell.)



Tessy Drying Her Shirt

I created this post way back in December, '08, but for some reason couldn't publish it. So here it is now:
The other day Tessy got so mad at Ellie because she bumped her while carrying water and got her shirt all wet. A few minutes later Mahonry, from his office upstairs, noticed Tessy upstairs running up and down the hallway, so he got out his video camera and asked her what was up. Too CUTE!