"Gratulation"

We made it! As Chipper said one night, "We gradulated!" So he got the action and the congratulations all over with in one word. Very thrifty with his words, that one. We all got our purple (barney) robes (costumes) on and walked with the Turtons and the Dude Ranch girls all the way to the stadium. Walking into the stadium with all of the parents/family/friends in the stands was pretty overwhelming. Somehow Hannah and Kate were able to pick out their families. We were all five "ISAT" majors that day so that we could sit together, so we got plenty of pictures. The next couple of hours could have been REAL boring, except that we entertained ourselves with hangman on cellphone, trying to start a wave in the crowd, taking pictures, watching Catherine flirt it up with the guy next to her (just kidding Catherine), etc. Sarah Roq was our tudents speaker and was great... she put a different twist on "Ambition," emphasizing humility and "quiet acts" instead of the in-your-face stuff we think of most. We finally got through it all, though, and went off to our different spots for our majors. I went to the Hillside graduation for English, philiosophy, history, anthropology, religion and language majors. The weather was great and it was fun seeing everyone go up to get their diplomas (mine wasn't as exciting as Chipper's though, where someone was proposed to right up their on the graduation platform.)
After the chaos that was graduation, we all went home for a nice relaxing time with our family at the Dollhouse. JUST KIDDING! It was craziness packing everyone into our tiny yard, getting tents up, chairs out and food ready. We did though, and had plenty of family (Hannah wins for biggest fan club). It was pretty chaotic, but fun to see all of the families together. The five of us were big time celebs, had about a millions pictures taken of us and smiles that were about to fall off at the end of the day. I don't remember that night at all. Honestly, it was that insane that day, maybe we all went to bed right after the herd left? I'm not sure. But it was our last night together at the Dollhouse. The next day (or the day after?) we were all wisked away for a week with the Turtons at the beach in South Carolina. We'll update on our time there soon, it was good times as always :)