Graduations....

Hi bloggers!!!

These past two days were pre-graduation and graduation mania!!!

Friday: Our last All school mass and awards for seniors. Then that evening was my brothers graduation party (which was amazing!).

And then one of my bestest friends got to stay at my house and we took a ton of hilarious pictures at like 3 am and I'll put up some pics for you. I felt SO super special, b/c she took one of them and put it as her profile picture on facebook!!!!! I <3 her to the end of the world!!!!


Saturday: Baccalaureate mass then graduation ceremony.

I promised myself and I prayed AND I bought waterproof mascara HOPING I would NOT cry and already by the end of mass I was crying! I was so not proud of myself. Apparently promising yourself you're not isn't enough! And the worst part was, my mom was not even crying yet!!! And then OF COURSE at the graduation ceremony my eyes had just finally looked normal and then I looked up and saw this lady crying and I started crying again. AHH!!! Shun me!

During mass like NO ONE was crying so I was trying to distract myself because our faith formation director was speaking while crying so it was really hard not to. So I was looking over at my mom's sparkly watch and was going in my head "I wonder where she got it? It's really pretty! How much was it?? I bet it was not expensive! etc etc etc" then I started thinking of the Jared's jewlers commercial...I'm such a retard.

But I am sooooo soo so so so happy for all the seniors. They worked SO extremely hard and they are SO tight-knit as a class. Our president was speaking in his final comments about how he is so proud of them as seniors that they are not mean and haughty with their position as seniors. They are extremely kind to all the under classmen and I will ALWAYS remember this senior that helped me the first day of my freshmen year. I had NO idea whatsoever how to put in a locker combination to open my locker and I "only had" 20 minutes to get downstairs to my 1st hour, P.E. My brother frequently reminded me DON'T BE LATE you'll get a tardy. And I was SO scared I was going to get one. (I've had like 4 already lol).

But anyways, I was like panicking and I kept like smacking my locker with my hand as if that would help. She came up and was like "Do you need some help?" and not only did she open it for me, she spent the last twenty minutes before school showing me how to open my locker and tricks of how she remembered her combination etc. Her boyfriend was standing there waiting and she could have spent that time with him, but instead she waited with me and was patient enough to help me. =)

And a big congrats to my brother! He has worked extremely EXTREMELY hard to get to graduation. I can SO easily remember how many countless nights and hours he worked diligently on his homework in order to get a good grade. He always kept his goal in focus: To get good enough grades to get to aviation school. And he's got it. He's achieved his goal, and beyond. I think he was accepted into 9-11 colleges because of his grades, many service hours and participation in debate etc.

As his favorite quote, I think it is appropriate to put here.

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day - and not only to me but also to all who have longed for his appearing" (2 Tim.4.7-8)

The bolded is what he often refers to. It was ironic because while we were sitting there, listening to their chosen senior speaking, I was thinking of this quote. His ending remarks were "We have fought the good fight, finished the race, AND kept the faith."

I'm really going to miss our senior class because I <3 them all soooo super much. But they all have achieved SO super duper much and are ready for the next step of their lives.

Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers as they move across the U.S. achieving even more =)

((hugs)) and congrats to them!
~Mary