Graduation At Last!

Hi and happy June!

Hats off to the new HS grads!

Amazing that we are into the 6th month of the year. It's been a whirlwind of activity, the end-of-school-year events for Kara as she approached the end of her high school experience :)

Last Sunday was Wayland High School's graduation, though, which was a pretty big deal! Kara was up on the stage for the whole event, so we saw a lot of her.

ok the wind...was an issue!
Kara's grad cap flew off mid-speech :/
but she did get a few laughs when
she caught it

As class president, Kara gave one of the student speeches at the ceremony. Of all the student speeches, Kara's was the best. (And even people who are NOT her parents were saying that!) So maybe it's not just my own bias, haha!

The administration also informed her, just 2 hours before it started, that she would be giving the welcome, and introducing all the program participants.

The senior class presidency split the names of the graduates, so they all read off about 55 names as they walked across the stage. Kara was practicing until 3:30 the night before, a little stressed about mispronouncing someone's name.

Just wanted to share some pics of graduation.

at the end the wind wasn't so bad

Family flies in to support! So cool!

senior class presidency
Jeff VP, Kara Pres,
Janelle Secretary
Zack Treasurer

We were so happy that Mom and Frank's parents, David n Diane, could be here! And OUR David, working in Provo this summer, also flew out for the weekend. BEST!

Buddies Lilly, Amanda, Masha

After graduation, we had a dinner next door at the Steneris. Their daughter Isabel also graduated--Kara and Isabel have been buddies since the 3rd grade. They haven't been in the same sports for a few years now, and have had limited classes together, but they still wanted to do a joint grad dinner. All of the Steneris really are the best neighbors EVER.

Well just a few pics! Angela came to the dinner too, but I forgot to take a picture of her and Kara.

Seminary graduation (a scripture class the high school students in our congregation attend, 6:10 each morning before school) is coming up this Sunday. That will ALSO be worth celebrating--early-morning seminary is a lot of hard work, too :)

Let's see, FYI, Kara just landed an internship (yes it's also paid, yippee!) at Angela's company for 7 or 8 weeks. It's in the Sales/Marketing department (Angela is in Marketing), of a small company (50 employees) that makes and sells dental equipment. They'll give Kara projects to work on kind of at her own pace. The hours are flexible, so maybe she can arrange NOT to be in rush-hour traffic twice every day. She hasn't figured out those details yet. Anyway, YAY Kara!

David just finished training to be in the call center for NuSkin, in Provo. He's not selling, but he takes calls on people's orders or other concerns. That's the part-time summer job, and he can actually arrange his class schedule this fall to continue the job and take afternoon classes. Nice!

Have a great rest of the week!
Kari