Daisy Graduates from BYU!

I remember so clearly dropping Daisy off to her tiny dorm room for her first year of college. It was during Covid times and masks and quarantines and classes being pushed to remote learning were common. And that really does seem like ages ago now. 

But for some reason dropping her off to her little new Y View apartment the following year seems ... just a moment ago. It was still pretty bare and her roommates weren't around and it seemed so cold and lonesome that I was anxious and praying the entire drive home. Yet she happily spent three school years in that apartment! And now she's officially GRADUATED from college!

She got her bachelor's degree just yesterday--with a statistics major and math minor (and only one miniscule A- the entire four years)! 

And of course it didn't feel like too much of a goodbye to BYU. She'll be back there for her Masters in the fall. Still! Our first little college graduate! That's no small thing! Good work Daisy!

These pictures are at the open house for her department just prior to the graduation ceremony. 

It was a fun but incredibly full day. I picked kids up from school at 11:00 so we could change, eat lunch, and get down to Ogden where Mike was waiting with his mom (who he had picked up after leaving work early) at an auto mechanics where he'd dropped off the truck to be fixed. Then we headed to Provo--arriving around 2:30--to meet up with Daisy, ride the shuttle bus from the stadium parking to the Wilkinson Center, meet up with Abe, and enjoy the open house. ...

Then we headed to the ballroom an hour early to get seats. (Mike's mom had gone for a graduation in the Wilkinson Center last year and had trouble getting a seat at all.) We watched Daisy graduate, took pics, waited for 40 minutes for the shuttle, then headed to Devin and Melissa's to meet their new baby Moses. After that we went to Cafe Rio, then to Daisy's apartment to help load up all of her stuff, and then some of us headed back with Daisy (getting home around 11:30) and some went with Mike a little further south of Provo to pick up a little jon boat someone was selling--which got them home after midnight. So it was a good 12-plus hour day of wildness! But all good things! And we are so happy to have Daisy back for the summer!

Two Darling Girls

Penny recently went to "The Hanger Hop"--a 40s themed dance at the Logan airport that she and a few friends took dates to. Look what a great 40s outfit she created for herself. I think she might have belonged in the 30s (remember how darling she was in Anything Goes?) or 40s!

And speaking of darling girls, here Daisy is in a skirt she made. (We took these in five minutes before she left back to Provo last weekend when she suddenly remembered she needed to turn in a photo for BYU's graduation.)

And here she is earlier that day celebrating 22 year of living!