Graduation, what's next?

Today was Whitney's (Dan's sister) graduation from Salem Hills. They had the graduation ceremony outside on their football field. It was a nice sunny day, and they even had three sky divers come and start things off which was really neat! (one of the benefits of being a brand new wealthy school I guess). It was the usually ceremony...national anthem followed by rifle demonstration thing, class president and validictorian speak, principle speaks, choir sings, then each senior takes his/her turn walking up to get their diploma where you also get/have to strike a pose and get your picture taken while they read your name. Whitney looked really cute, and didn't trip or anything. I was hoping someone would to make things a bit more interesting...but the afternoon was accident free.

The last sky diver carried the flag down with him (obviously lol)

Whitney is a great sister in law. She is so kind and easy to talk to because she can relate to really anyone. She instantly made me feel welcome in the family, and is fun to be around. After the ceremony we went back to Dan's parent's house to eat and visit with the family that had come. Whit got a brand new laptop, and Dan had put a bunch of programs on it so it would be ready to use out of the box. We had some fun with her at first because we wrapped up one of our old, excuse me, ancient, laptops and gave it to her as a joke. She was polite and laughing, but I'm pretty sure she knew something was up because I forgot to include the power cord, and the hard drive was missing. Then Dan came out with the real, new laptop, and she got much happier :)


Throughout the day I was trying to remember how I had felt the day I graduated. Mostly, I think I was relieved because as fun as high school was, I was ready to move on (and move out lol). I was ready to enjoy the summer then start college and be on my own. I don't think I was scared because I had a pretty solid scholarship and plan laid out (which never really happened like I thought it would, but that's okay because it's better :) I remember I was a bit sad that all of my family couldn't be there to see me, and see how much I had accomplished. The only thing I regret looking back is on the last day of school Tacy and I just left instead of sticking around to sign yearbooks. At the time I didn't care, but it would have been fun to look back at it now and see what everyone had written!

I thought it would be fun to put up some pics of my graduation. That night a bunch of friends and I met up at Mckell's house and took some pictures. It is so funny how people go separate ways. I have not seen most of the people in the pictures since high school...but I am glad I was there for the pics because it's so much fun to look back at them now! The resolution and quality is poor because I had to scan them in.

Tacy and me just after Graduation ceremony

The above pics were at Mckell's house; starring: Devin, Ivan, Chris, Tim, Troy, Josh, Tacy, Mckell, Alex, Megan, Alisa, and me!

The 2006 Sterling Scholars, I was foreign language

All the Brickey family that came to support DJ and me
*Side note* I later found out that Dan and his family had been in the exact same area outside the Mckay Events Center that day taking pictures because his sister Bridgette graduated with me*

Anyways, CONGRATS WHITY! Also my sister Ximena is graduating Friday, so it will be fun to see her accomplish the same thing!

Swagger

This truly is the summer of softball for us! Dan plays in Payson on Mondays and Wednesdays with some friends. They call themselves "Swagger". It's been so much fun to watch because they are one of the best teams in both leagues, they like to have fun, and Dan is playing great!





We also play together on a co-ed team here in Orem with some friends. It has been a lot of fun playing on a team that is so skilled and likes to have fun! Dan and I have spent a lot of time practicing so I can improve and have more confidence, and it has really been working! I actually feel comfortable out of the field! I still have a long ways to go, but I am glad I have the chance to play with my hubby :) The weather has been pretty wacko every week, but none-the-less the softball games go on!

What Does Mayhem Really Mean??

So, I finally decided it was time for a new header. Dan was so kind to point out that "meyhem" was spelled wrong (it had only been that way for two years now). I wanted to double check the spelling, so I typed it into google. Yes, I am an idiot, and *choke* Dan was right.

When I chose the title for our blog i was thinking "Jensen Mayhem...ya know because we are crazy fun, or maybe crazy period." But the actual definitions are far more violent:

"the willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another person"

"the criminal act of disabling, disfiguring, or cutting off or making useless one of the members (leg, arm, hand, foot, eye)"

"Violently depriving another person of a body part to render less effective that person's defense of self."

Now, crazy as we may be, Dan and I sure don't go around chopping off arms, or mutilating body parts. We can't even watch Dexter do it.

I am pretty sure it's time to get a new name for our blog. I will certainly look up the definition of whichever name I come up with before hand :)

Mother's Day Creation

I have to show you guys the gift Dan came up with for his mom. I thought it was hilarious, thoughtful, and very creative! He used gimp to design the cover and then we had each of the kids and Lorin (dad) write a letter to their mom about why she is so great. I scrap-booked them together and the last page had a picture of all of us kids that we took in his parent's field. His parents spent the week on an island down by Guatemala scuba diving so we were able to keep this a surprise. His mom loved it!

Sue pulled this out of the gift bag, and didn't even look at the cover for more than a second because she thought it was a real self help book we had bought from "Barnes and Noble." LOL, once she looked at the first page she realized it was not and went back to read the entire cover.

Whitney, Dan's sister, was sick, so we only took four pictures, and were able to get this! We even had the family dog looking at the camera :)


We also went down to my family, the Brickey's, house later that evening for a weenie roast, where there was never a short supply of perverted weenie jokes :) (Thanks Mandy for the picture lol).

Everybody keeping warm around the little fire!

Happy Mother's Day!