graduation and other goodness.

i've been drinking defense vitamin water like a mad woman lately trying not to get sick.
i have a sore throat and my ears are all clogged up, but i'm still trying to convince my body that it doesn't want to be sick. :]
i'm so glad this waited until after graduation!

aside from vitamin water, i've been soaking up time with my grandparents. we had a big group dinner on sunday night before my sister left, which led to a photo shoot.


i managed to get everyone to agree to the group photo. i'm still not sure how i pulled that one off.
and the second one seriously melts my heart. :]
after the photo grandma said, "you'd think that after all these years he'd give up!"
so cute.

yesterday, james and i played golf with my parents.


well.
i suppose that's not entirely true.
i rode in the cart, while james and my parents played golf.
i decided to go along with them because it would be a nice opportunity to take my camera out and shoot some scenic photos. except that i forgot to bring my slr. nice one. :|

i still managed to get a couple nice shots with my point and shoot. they only played the back nine holes, but some of the views are just so nice. in the shot of my parents you can see mt. rose in the background. it's funny how you can wear shorts and look up and see snow on the mountains. kind of like when you go lay on the beach at tahoe and are surrounded by snow covered mountains. it's just a little bit strange, but pretty enough that i don't mind. :]

so far though, operation: take photos/experiment with new cameras is not going well.

graduation was really nice. aside from only getting two hours of sleep the night before, that is.
i was up cleaning the house to get ready for a graduation lunch party.
[operation: living room to scrapbook room made huge progress! i'll do a separate post for that soon.]

luckily, all of the graduates were seated on the shady side of the quad. unfortunately, all of the guests were seated on the sunny side. i was like the 10th person to walk, so my family didn't have to sit in the hot sun for too long, but my poor grandpa has been having problems staying warm due to his cancer treatment, so he was wearing a few layers of shirts. he had to go take one of them off and left his seat for a few minutes at which point my name was announced! so they came all the way from colorado to watch me graduate and then he missed it. ack!
it's funny how summer finally decided to show up just a few days before graduation.

anyway, here are a bunch of photos from graduation: