Andrew's Golden Birthday

This year is Andrew's golden birthday! Since my brother is getting married on his birthday, we had to celebrate a few days earlier. So yesterday was "Andrew's Birthday." Since Andrew is turning 24 and there are 24 hours in a day I gave him a gift every hour. I've been planning this for the past couple of months because I knew his birthday had to be big and special. (Andrew took me to Disneyland for my birthday...how do you compete with that??)

Midnight was his first gift. I had to wake him up and he thought everything was a dream. I made him read the note explaining how the rest of the day would be. When he woke up in the morning he was so excited to open up his presents.

Throughout the day he opened his presents and loved every single one. He also went golfing with his brother Seth and we then had his favorite German food for dinner with Creme Brulee for dessert. (I got to use my new torch)

Then on Thursday we headed to American Fork to celebrate with the Bangerter Family. Andrew's mom had gold balloons and a football piñata filled with 48 gold coins. He had to wear Seth's tree climbing equipment just in case a coin came flying out of the piñata.

Overall, it was a great "fake" birthday couple of days filled with celebrating my all time favorite person in the world.

Graduation

 I finally graduated from BYU on August 16! After three long years of hard work, tears, and fun times it has come to an end. We were super lucky this year that my graduation was really small. We were in and out in one hour and fifteen minutes!! I kept getting emails saying it would last three hours but luckily it didn't. It happened in a blink of an eye. (I would highly recommend doing summer graduation for anyone.)

We celebrated by going to Pizza Pie Cafe afterwards with mine and Andrew's family. It was such a fun day surrounded by all the people who have supported me through the past three years. A big shout out has to go to my mom for all the phone calls and tears she has listened to over the past three years...especially my freshman year. Also, to my mom and dad who made the opportunity to go to BYU possible.  Then my second shout out is to Andrew who always kept pushing me and motivating me to keep going.

I have loved every second while at BYU and sad that it has come to an end. Luckily, Andrew still has a year left so I can still feel kind of like a student.I'm so grateful for all the friends that I've made and the great job at the library that I had the whole time. I'm excited to move on to the next step in my life and use the knowledge that I gained from BYU everyday of my life.

The next step...working part time at the Provo Recreation Center for the Guest Services Department. My first day is Sept. 2!