It's been twenty-five years

since Lonny graduated from BYU Law School. He appears to be pleased. (I just now noticed the date, 10 years previous to the OK City bombing and 10 years and a day previous to our first visit to OK.) We celebrated Lonny's achievement by going to graduation again. Justin's law school graduation. BYU's commencement was last Thursday at the Marriott Center. The place was jam packed. It was my fifth time to attend a BYU graduation and I have never seen the place so full. Even Danny Ainge's skills didn't draw such a crowd. Elder Todd Christofferson spoke and I loved it. We were sitting so we could read the teleprompter which was just too enticing not to follow along. He could read (not everyone could) but he also casually veered from the prepared remarks. Here we are after commencement.

The Law School graduation was Friday afternoon at the Provo Tabernacle. Judge Clifford Wallace from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals was the speaker. He was at the Ninth Circuit when Lonny clerked there 25 years ago. Everyone involved has aged. I also enjoyed listening to him. He had some good stories.

Justin with Dean Rasband.

It was mostly sunny in Provo except for this day when the wind was freezing cold. Can you see our teeth chattering in the photo? Lonny, Emily and I walked/ran the two blocks back to the condo because we were too cold to stand outside any longer.

Geoff and Eric missed out on the family picture. They hurried along they were so anxious to clean their apartments before they checked out later that evening.

Miranda's family also attended and then hosted a graduation party. We did a lot of celebrating in the four days Lonny and Emily were in UT. We made Emily miss school and fly to UT because it was her birthday.

She wanted to eat at Mayan Adventure. They seated us right by the water so not only could we see the divers but they got us wet. I mentioned to Eric to pay attention, surely his mission was depicted at The Mayan.

Then Geoff gave her his gift of sitting on her. Camryn was not injured during the making of this celebration.

And Happy Birthday on this very day to Justin. Twenty nine on the 29th! Odd, since Geoff was 22 on the 22nd this year.

My buddy Bryce

wanted to go to the Temple after I mentioned there were churches everywhere.

He thought the fountains were funny,

and the water was cold.

He likes going to the neighborhood park in his wagon,

and eating at McDonald's or at least playing with the toy dragon, and wearing his OSU hat.

I don't know why I don't have any pictures of Bryce playing catch or winding up with a pitch or perfecting a line drive because that's what we spent the last 2 weeks doing.

It's odd waking up now without Bryce in the room repeating "Grandma, I get up."

Dressed up.

I made a dress for Emily! It had been a long time. (Well, except for the dress I made a couple of months ago that she hasn't worn yet with the little incident of making a hole in the back while I was ironing the darn thing.) I am not sure what took me so long except why are patterns sizes so off from store-bought sizes? I started to make a skirt for Jenny last year. I used the size she always wears. When she tried it on I realized if she skipped lunch every day for a year she could wiggle into it. She also could have worn it to an anorexia intervention. It is so frustrating to sew sometimes.
And the dress for Emily was too big but at least she looked cute wearing it.

Even with her runway pose.

Behold, look in the hot tub. . .

Emily had her own private Easter Egg Hunt on Sunday. It took her awhile to find all of the plastic eggs hidden in the backyard. Almost as long as it took to find her Easter basket that morning. The sun was shining bright but obviously the heavens thought she should look in the hot tub.

Lucky for her that was not their location.