carnival!

this past weekend was the truck pulls at the utah state fair. after the pulls were over we did a couple rides and walk around to see the animals and crafts. this is the ferris wheel...

cris and rica (?) joined us for the day of fun. they were on the ferris wheel with steve and i.

scenes at the top of the ferris wheel.

this sculpture is made entirely of butter. gross and intriguing at the same time.

there were metal bars in the way so i couldn't get a picture of the whole thing so i took them in parts instead.

Graduation

walking out to the pomp and circumstance song.

walking to the tunnel to go around back and get to the stage...

i just walked across the stage!

we were supposed to turn around to the family who came to say thanks...

this is my good friend heather. we took a lot of classes together and became pretty close. she had just gotten back from her honeymoon that morning.

my advisor and some friends from the department.

cris and betsy made it in time for pictures and dinner. we got a few pictures but none of them turned out too well

we did a celebratory dinner at outback steakhouse where steve's parents, brothers, sister-in-law and niece joined us.

this is our niece, kadence. i think once the pre-dinner salad was served she never left our end of the table cuz she was playing with cris and LOVING IT!! here's an attempt at trying to capture that!