Well, on graduation day we got up early and left the house. We drove clear out west to pick up a cake that Cambria had a lady make for us. She did an amazing job. Neither of us know the gender of the baby but the lady made the inside of the cake coorelate with the gender of the baby, blue for boy, and pink for girl. We stored it in our fridge at our still unsold and vacant condo in Ogden near the school, and headed over to graduation. Cambria dropped me off near the door so i could run in in time then went to find parking. I immediately saw my grandma Penrod waiting for my dad to come back from parking the car. She is way cute with her camera and takes a ton of pictures. Just as I was talking to her, I spotted my mission president and his wife (President and Sister Rose) walking up the sidewalk. They were there for their son's masters degree graduation. It was awesome to see them. We hugged and they congradulated me. There's a certain joy that comes with showing those you look up to and respect that you have done something with you life, and are trying to live up to the principles that they strived to instil in you. My grandma took a photo of us, and I had to say goodbye to run in to my graduation.
I got inside and had plenty of time to chat with friends. You could tell that we were all happy to be there and to have made it together. I have a lot of fond memories with them, and their friendships helped boost morale through the last few years of school. There was a lot of what you would expect by way of clapping, speaches about being great and always teaching science whenever you can, and how we are the future. The best part was to simply know that I had made it and that I could move on to medical school application and MCAT prep without worrying about coursework anymore.
Lynlee was extremely cute and multiple times wanted to get away from my family and come and run up to where I was sitting and give me a hug. She did it too while I was standing in the line waiting to walk and recieve my diploma. One guy walked while holding his little girl, and I wish I would have done that.
She is such a special little bright spot in my life and it has been so extremely hard to have to come home after she is already in her crib. Of all the things I am looking forward to the most, it will be to spend more time with her and Cambria. They are what brings me the most happiness. I am extremely excited to begin medical school, but there of course is a part of me that wishes that I were done right now. I have a degree in Microbiology. I can support a family comfortably. I know I want more than that though, and need to go on to medical school. I want to be a doctor. I will have a nice year and a half off of school to spend a lot of time with my family though. Especially our little boy that will be coming in October. Oh yeah, so we found out that day too that we were going to have a boy. Both mine and Cambria's families went out to Ruby River steakhouse to celebrate both my and Nathan's graduations. He got his Masters in Business. After getting settled in at our table, we cut into the cake. We did it first because my sister, Angie, had to leave and wanted to see. Cambria and I cut it together and Cam swore she saw some little blue flakes come out after the first cut, and practically screamed out that she saw blue, well another cut confirmed it, it was blue! We wanted a boy so bad and were so so excited. I couldn't help but shed a few tears as I am again now while writing this. Periodically thoughtout the meal it would hit me again and I would stare at the blue cake in front of me just thinking, "I'm going to have a boy." When all was said and done and Cambria and most of our family had walked out, Cambria and I stopped and hugged eachother again. She always tells me that she loves seeing just how much Lynlee loves her daddy. Well I told her then that I was excited to see our little boy form a bond with his mommy.
I can't express how perfect of a day it was. Life is beautiful. It may not always be perfect but it's days like that which make it all worth it. I just have to keep reminding myself of that as I study. Speaking of studying, I should get back to it. Until the next time I am prompted to write.
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