Steve Graduated!!!

STEVE officially graduated today. I'm so proud of him!

We woke up bright and early. No joke either-5:30am! We needed to be to the Y by 7:00 am because the ceremony started at 8:00am.

Steve didn't want to really walk, but I convinced him. I'm glad I did too, so is he! It made it seem more like a closure for that stage of his education.

We kept it low key and didn't invite a lot of people. We just invited our immediate families and then our grandparents. The graduation was great! Steve looked so cute in his cap and gown. The ceremony was short and sweet too. It was only an hour. Summer graduations are a lot shorter.

After the graduation, we went to Denny's for breakfast with the fam (minus mine-Kart had to go to work, Dad had business)

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Grandma Anderson couldn't make it to the graduation because she hasn't been feeling well, so we surprised her with a visit! She was thrilled.

Dear Steve,

Baby you did it!!! You graduated! I'm so dang excited for you and I'm so proud of you. You mean the world to me. I'm so lucky to be married to such a hard work. You have worked you're cute booty off! seriously.

I count my blessings every day that I have you in my life and that we are married for the eternities! Thanks for thinking of us and our future. By you working hard and paying now we won't have to pay later. :)

I seriously love you honey, I'm so grateful for you!

I'm so happy we get to spend our life journey with one another, and see where life takes us.

Let's PAR-TAY! ( woot-woot) Your done with your Bachelors!!!

Love,

Keira

Last night, two of my little Beehives wanted to help me make Steve a graduation cake with the fondant that I made the night before. Unfortunately, the fondant didn't turn out as great since I used the off brand off crisco, so it kept cracking. But, Steve still liked the cake and the girls had a fun time making it. Lindsay (the one sticking her tongue out really hates BYU, and so she said she would help make the cake, but won't smile by it. ha ha. She's obsessed with the U.)

The PRANK!

Well, Christine and I prank ed two managers at our office today!! It was so fun to do something out of the ordinary. I don't work Friday's, so I won't get to see there reaction tomorrow-BUMMER. Unfortunately, Thursday evenings are the only night that there are no managers so this was the only night we could do it.

Anne was going to go in on it too, but she chickened out! She was worried what they would do back to us. I think it would be great if we got a little pranking going on in the office, make it a little more fun-something out of the ordinary.

Christine and I decided that fasted and quickest prank we could do would be to Saran wrap the chairs, mouse pad and computers and then throw confetti everywhere. If I had more time, I would of rather of put tinfoil everywhere or wrapped everything with wrapping paper! But, this worked for now..I wonder if there will be anymore pranking going on?? Hope so.

Well I'm done with work in 20 minutes and I won't be back for 10 days!! Can't wait to go play at Lake Powell! :)

Here's some pics of our Prank!

Our First!

Steve and I took our first dance class last night! It was sooo much fun! I'm seriously counting down the days until our next dance class.

Our dance class is every Tuesday night from 8:00-9:30pm. Steve and I have been wanting to get more active, and how much fun is it to dance and be with your hubby all at the same time?

Our teachers are super fun too! They have both been dancing since they were really young and they are a really cute couple! The girl instructor, Jenny is from Germany and she said she has danced internationally for a long time until she married and met her husband. Now they teach dance here!

Last night we learned the Two Step. IT WAS SO FUN! I'm so happy that Steve and I decided to do this. We are getting some exercise while having a blast!

We decided we are going to to this every month now until Steve gets into Pharmacy school. The awesome thing is they teach different dance classes each month, so we will get to know a variety of different dances/dance steps.

Youth Conference 2010

Youth Conference was AMAZING. Words can't even describe how much fun, and how awesome it was. I seriously love the youth.

We were planning on leaving on Thursday night, but Bishop decided it would be a good idea to not go until Friday Morning since there was Flash flood warnings. Which, I completely agree. Flash flooding=SCARY! Luckily, we found out later there was no flooding. But, it's better to be safe then sorry.

So, we woke up bright an early and met up at the Fisher's house for breakfast at 7am. We also made our carpool arrangements.

Our carpool consisted of Steve and I, Tara, Kelsey and Amber. We all had a fun time talking, laughing, making inside jokes, and listening to Brian Regan on our way there. SO MUCH FUN! I seriously love these girls. And of course I love Steve! :)

"Peace out to Wingers" (inside joke)

We finally arrived to Castledale 2 1/2 hours later. Castledale is a super small, quaint town. It's really cute though and everyone knows everyone. We eventually found our park and set up camp. After we set up everything we all loaded up in the cars and made our way to go on a hike.

The hike was fun. SUPER, SUPER hot. There was NOTHING out there. Nothing. Okay, a cactus or two. So, I was sweating like mad, as well as the rest of the group. But, we made it to be fun. We all sang songs and joked around as we walked.

Once we reached the top we had lunch and enjoyed the pretty view. The hike was well worth it.

Once we made it back to our campground, everyone got into their swimsuits and went swimming at the Castledale pool. All the leaders just watched while all the kids had fun. Steve and I wanted to go swimming, but we forgot our suits! dang.

We were probably at the pool a little over an hour, and than it was time to go to the Emory County Fair.

On the way to the fair we saw lots of old cars, and than the guys played a game.

The fair had games, and all the regular fair stuff that you normally see.

There was this one guy though, his name is Freddie Perez who was seriously so funny. He had a whole set up dedicated to guitar hero. Steve calls him the guitar hero guru.. Everything about him was funny stuff. Steve and I got a kick out of it....

We all had dinner at the fair. You could choose between chicken or lamb. I'll take CHICKEN any day. I had a pet lamb, there is NO WAY I"m ever going to eat lamb. YOU just don't eat pets...

Anyway, after dinner we all went back to camp and changed into warmer clothes for the Castledale Pageant. The Pageant didn't start until 9pm, so we played some games while we waited to go. Unfortunately, on our ride to the pageant it started to down pour with rain! bummer. And bummer is right. We all got SOAKED.

But, we still stayed for the pageant, and by the time the pageant started it stopped raining and there was a double rainbow that went right over the pageant stage. It was really pretty.

The pageant was beyond amazing. The spirit was super strong, and it only strengthened my testimony even more. I want to go to the pageant again. I think I would get even more out of it the second time (especially if I'm not shivering! Luckily, Steve and I were able to keep each other warm- a little.)

The pageant didn't get over until a little past 11pm and so I was getting super tired. But once I got out of the wetness I had my second wind. We all played card games and then Tammy and I shared a tent. Tammy is the YW president and I seriously love her to pieces. I've been able to get to know her through our 4 years of being in this ward. I taught Tammy's twin girls when they were 5 and now I'm teaching her other daughter, Katie in Beehives. I seriously love Tammy though. We stayed up until 1:20ish waiting for the kids to go to sleep so we could T.P the tents, but they were NEVER going to sleep. We finally decided we needed our rest and we hit the sack. (I found out the next day they went to bed at 1:30. 10 minutes too late dang it!)

We woke up at 5:30 hearing someone blaring a car horn repeatedly. ARE YOU KIDDING ME CASTLEDALE PEOPLE? Waking us up. Then I went back to sleep because we didn't need to make breakfast until 7. Then I heard the most annoying bird sound of my life. I'm not for shooting animals, or birds or killing anything. But at that moment, my first thought was "where's a gun?" I was soo extremely tired, and the first wake up by the car was not pleasant. By 7 Tammy's alarm went off, and we got up. We found out the boys put a zip tie on our tent zipper so we were locked in. That wasn't the last prank that they pulled either. Tammy and I were finally free from the tent and we went to the bathroom to find shaving cream all over the toilet seats. I swear, next time i do this, I'm bringing tons of things to pull pranks with! They scared poor Marla (1st counselor) with CREEPY, HORRIFIC masks, that look like someone died. Pulled the tent stakes from the girls tent, so they woke up with a tent on top of them. It was all pretty funny, and I thought it was awesome. It was all in good fun.

I so wish me and Tammy would of stayed up a little later....

Notice the shaving cream on the ground by the tent..they put shaving cream by the tents too, so when we walked out we would step in it!

So, that was our morning. Steve said he didn't get any sleep. The first counselor in the bishopric was "sawing logs" Okay am I the ONLY one who has never heard that phrase? I had to ask him what it meant. He said it means he was snoring like crazy.

I had to add this picture, look how cute and funny this is! Steve is chasing Conner around the camp with tent ties.

What a fun morning. After we ate breakfast we went back to the pageant amphitheater and cleaned it (for our service project)

We than had testimony meeting.

It's so amazing that we can go from having such a fun time to having a spiritual high. I love the youth so much, and I'm so grateful that Heavenly Father has given me this opportunity to be with them. The are building me up all the time, and I know it's strengthening my testimony.

This ROCKS!

So I LOVE the show "THE OFFICE." Seriously, who doesn't?

I'm sitting here at work, kind of bored..it's a little slow my last hour. And it got me thinking...

How fun would it be to do this to some one's cubicle?

Anne, and Christine are definitely up for it. We think we might prank our manager next week. ha ha. :) Our manger is pretty fun, and he won't mind. I bet he will think it's pretty funny too.

My manager is similar to the character Michael Scott. His name is even Mike...It jut reminded me of the office too..

These pictures are GREAT ideas!!!

The three of us can't wait for the prank-ing to begin...!

Stoked.

So stoked that it's already Wednesday. One more work day to go.

Tomorrow Steve and I are headed to youth conference for the weekend. I'm really excited! Youth Conference and girl's camp were seriously so much fun to me when I was a young women. I even love it more now. It's so much fun to be with all the youth and Steve is with me now too-which I seriously love.

I was pretty bummed that I couldn't go to girls camp this year. I was planning on going but, than I couldn't get work off for the week since we have two other vacations that we are doing this year. Hopefully, I can go again someday though.

Life's been super busy lately. Summer's usually are. I just wish it would slow down just a little though, I'm always soo super tired by the middle of the day.

Steve graduates OFFICIALLY next Friday! I'm so extremely excited!!!!! It seems almost surreal. He's been going to the Y for 5 years it's hard to imagine him going anywhere else. He takes the PCAT in just 2 weeks and then he applies for pharm school! I'm actually really, really excited. Not the fact that I won't see Steve. But it will be an adventure for us, depending on where he gets into school. I kind of have a hunch we might be moving out of state...but what do I know?

I'm also pretty excited to make his grad cake! For the most part I have an idea of what I'm doing, I just hope it turns out the way I want it. I found these two cakes, that I'm stealing ideas from. :)

I might just make a grad cap with blue and white...

or

I really, REALLY love this cake. This lady did an AWESOME job. I'm thinking of doing the cake all white with maybe the byu Y in blue on the second layer in a big letter or just the blue and white stripes like the bottom pic...

Okay, something completley random. I have that blasted Jonas Brothers song in my head-"Hey You." I LOVE the song, but it's been going through my head all day.