Hey! Guess what?

I GRADUATED!

After five very long years, I have finally graduated from the University of Northern Iowa. Hooray!! Thanks to everyone for sending your thoughts (and very nice cards and generous gifts!) my way on the 7th!

Michelle Obama spoke at commencement and I thought she did a really great job -- so glad, since everyone seemed to be against her coming. You can look at an article about graduation events and the first lady's speech here. I'd rather you just read that so I don't have to type more about it. ;)

My family and I went to Sakura (if you've been reading lately then you know about my obsession!) for lunch and had great entertainment and delicious food. I swear that I will never get sick of that place. I decided to only have sushi because the other food fills me up too much and makes me sleeeeepy. Turns out I only ate about 5 pieces of the sushi anyway, haha.

Keats was the camera man and got some of these pics...

The UNI-dome was PACKED -- some people got there at 8am. I didn't even have to be there until 9:30...jeesh!

The "opening flame" at Sakura

My sushi plate. Nobody else likes sushi so it was all mine :)

The onion volcano

On the menu they have the "Sakura Birthday Special" complete with birthday singing, a framed photo, and a dessert, so OF COURSE my mom asked if they'd sing a graduation version to me. Guess what? They did...

We seemed to enjoy it, haha :)

I KNOW this picture is terrible but I just wanted to share it...it makes me so happy :)

Wish Tylo would have been there!

Our scanner is terrible so I just took a picture of a picture. Come visit us and I'll show you in person. ;)

The Monday after graduation was my friend Trav's birthday. We went golfing with him and his girlfriend and then went to Chuck E. Cheese with a big group of our friends. I honestly haven't been there since I was 8 (maybe?) years old! It was a fun time and we got this sketched picture with one of our tokens...

Not bad, huh?

As you know, we're planning to move to Colorado in August and we're both very excited. Please send good thoughts our way...we're applying for jobs and house hunting from Iowa. STRESSFUL! But hey, you will all have a place to visit now, because we know that we will miss everyone here and....

YOU WILL MISS US! (So pleeease come visit!)

A day at the farm...

Keats has Mondays off so we stuck around Forest City after Easter. We went out for lunch, went to Pilot Knob, and visited Dad and Grandpa at the farm. Grandpa was so proud of all of his John Deere toys and had to show Keaton around.

Dad was hauling corn to the co-op when we got to the farm, so it was just the three of us.

"A couple more feet, Greg! Keep it comin'!"

I loved watching their routine, it's so quick. Especially with the new grain truck with the automatic cover....fancy shmancy!!!

A view from the front. The guys were laughing at me because dust was flying everywhere.

"Hey, Kenyan. Go pick up that rock and throw it up there on the pile." says Grandpa as he looks at me and winks. And yes, Grandpa knows K's name but just thinks it is funny to call him the wrong name.

Another one of my favorite pictures.

And here ends our day at the farm :)

Easter

Keaton and I spent Easter with the Johnson side of the family. We went to church in Forest City with Grandma and Grandpa and then traveled north to my cousin's house in Minnesota. We had a lot of fun, it had been forever since we've gotten to see that side of my family!

Here are some pictures from that day...

I found Aeston like this ^ when he was supposed to be like....

...THIS! The cute and wonderful Jaeger family!

I love this picture of us! Mainly because of the background. They (Jen and Ben) have the prettiest red barn and buildings!

My aunt Laurel made some CUTE cupcakes! I don't even remember what different kinds were there. Keaton said they were delicious!

Gotcha :)

Dad got me an AWESOME new camera (Thanks, Dad!) and I got to test it out while we were at the farm. I absolutely love the next three pictures of Azlei running around on the farm.

But...this one is most definitely my favorite.