Natali's Graduation

While we were on our way to Utah for Natali's graduation Thursday after school (on Emmy's birthday), Natali and Miguel were hitting up dozens of groceries stores so Natali could have Mexican corn at her party after the graduation.  Eventually they succeeded and we all enjoyed the corn that night.

But Friday morning we woke up and readied for the day and met up with Grandma, Grandpa, Andrew and Natali and Miguel at Slackwater Pizza where we all tried some very creative and delicious pizzas.

They had this display up at the outdoor mall where the restaurant was so we took advantage of the photo op.

Natali went off to get ready and the rest of us went to Andrew's dorm to get him moved out.  He hadn't started packing but we all jumped in and his stuff was loaded in the back of Grandpa's truck in no time.  A bit longer and his place was cleaned and he was checked out of Helaman Halls - Freshman year done.

We did find his Cannon center cafeteria uniform from when he was working before he hurt his knee.  We made Lily try it on before he returned it.

Parking at Andrews place left us a very short walk up to the Marriott Center where we met up with Natali for some pictures before the big event.

Since Natalli's high school graduation was during covid this was her first real graduation- getting her Bachelors and Masters Degrees of Information Systems Management at the same time.  Five years at BYU and she is finally done.  She starts working for Sunrise Technologies in June.

Grandma Nani made it just in time for the graduation and we got a picture afterwards before we headed to the church for Natali's party.

Her sister-in-law, Karly, took these pictures in March.  They turned out so well.

Miguel's family, Regan and cousin Claire, joined us as we all enjoyed chatting, eating chick-fil-a nuggets, yummy corn, lemonies and double chocolate Levain cookies I had made and brought from home.  Miguel put together a cute game about Natali that Lily crushed everyone else because of her mad fast answering skills.  It was a lot of fun.

The next morning Natali took Emmy to get her second piercing for her birthday, something Emily had tried multiple times to accomplish but was always thwarted.  She got it done with a hollow needle - it was cool to watch.  

Then we saw Natali's new place and got the girls their birthday Sephora gifts before we said goodbye to Natali and met up with Kate, Greg and Andrew at Violet's rugby game.  We got to watch the last few minutes and cheer them on to victory with some of the aunts and cousins.  From there we said bye to Greg (he was headed to the airport) and hit the road to get us home late Saturday night.  It was a fun weekend, special to see Natali graduate; all of her hard work has paid off.