Finalized!

Although I finished my class work in December, actually having the graduation made it all FINAL in my head!

We had a great time at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia last weekend. It was really nice that so many family members were able to attend!

The weather was beautiful for the entire weekend. This was at the rehearsal on Friday afternoon.

After rehearsal they had a very nice reception for the distance learning students.

I loved how the student center was designed. There were all kinds of sitting/lounge areas that were decorated in really neat ways for a collegiate setting.

I liked this checkerboard area where none of the seats even matched.

The graduation ceremony was held outdoors at Williams Stadium.

I thought for sure I was near the back of the line of graduates until I turned around and saw this mass that still had to exit the soccer field where we lined up on Saturday morning. There were 4,800 graduates, so you can imagine the line of people.

It was so funny to watch all the graduates on cell phones, waving, standing on chairs, and doing all sorts of actions to try to find their family members in the stands. This was quite a feat with about 20,000 people in attendance.

This is my friend, Lynette. She is a really sweet girl. She was in the distance learning program too, but lived much closer - only 2 1/2 hours away from campus.

I'm sure this would have been a fun professor to have in class! He had 2 cans of silly string and was spraying his students during the faculty processional!

He obviously wasn't the only one that did this as you can see from the field.

Yeah - Aaron's probably just as glad that I'm done as I am myself!

Unfortunately, my mother was sick and had to leave partway through the ceremony, so she's not pictured here (and we missed you too, Jana/Mark and KKKK).

Camen looks very interested in Kendall's map of campus.

And finally, the LU mountain - very cool!