Congratulations, David Mills. David graduated today from UNLV's College of Fine Arts with a degree in film production, cum laude. What an accomplishment, we are so proud of you.

Jenn drove up from Mesa to be at the graduation. Here's our group at the Thomas & Mack. We were an hour early and had seats on the upper level. This was the largest December graduating class for UNLV with over 1600 students. Every seat available was full by the time the ceremony started and people were lining the tunnels standing up to watch. Quite a crowd. Scott is talking on the phone to Tim Miller who just opened his mission call to Veracruz, Mexico. After the ceremony we had a luncheon at the house. Thanks, David, to a great day with family.

Note to self: We need more pictures of Drew with the great-grandparents. Lucky little guy to have such a great family caring about him.

I loved watching what was going on during this picture. Ashley: "here Drew, let me button your jacket. Drew, just hold still. Drew, I just want to fix your jacket for the picture."

Get used to it, Drew. Finally, all buttoned up, Drew was ready for the picture.

Goodbye, Brian, We'll Miss You

Today was Brian's farewell.
He will be serving in the Columbus, Ohio Mission. These are the four cousins next in line for mission service, Brian, Scott, Tim Miller, Ryan. We'll miss you, Brian, I know you'll do a terrific job with the people in Ohio.

This seemed to be a busy weekend with a lot going on. Late Thursday afternoon Ron and I left to take Jennifer her new furniture plus an old family computer. We didn't get there until 10:30 at night, unloaded everything and by the time the computer was up and running it was after midnight -- just in time for the girls to sign on to the internet and start doing finals. The furniture looked terrific in the condo. I'm sure it's one of the nicest looking "student" places around!

Friday morning we drove down to Tucson to spend the day with Brad and Kara. They gave us a tour of theUniversity of Arizona where Brad has spent so much of his time the last two years. Then a terrific dinner at Guadalajara mexican restaurant. A movie sounded like a great evening activity, but Kara didn't find one she was interested in seeing. I think she was just being kind to me, though, because we came back to their apartment and between the combination of getting up for seminary and driving down to Mesa and getting to bed so late - I fell asleep and slept through the beginning movie times. So Friday evening was just visiting and a few tv shows. We left Saturday after lunch. Kara was off to buy supplies for their evening activity which was going to be building gingerbread houses. I can't wait to see the pictures of that on her blog, I'm sure they were pretty cute. 12 more days and you'll be here for a visit - yippeee.