Artistic Interpretation

We have been blessed to receive some beautiful drawing from nieces and nephews recently and I just had to share these because they are so cute and show each personality so well :)  A couple of them are still on our front door, which is where I found them last Saturday night. I had gone out with Matt's mom and came back to find the first three on my door from the girls along with a clean home and a Funfetti birthday cake that they had made with Matt. They tried to distract me while Matt searched for candles and offered me glasses of water and then they sang to me right after giving me these homemade pictures.  

Johanita's Happy Birthday drawing for me. Notice the special scrolly handwriting. She also signed it "Truely Johana"

Jeraldine's avant garde bouquet

Jamie's version of the "warm fuzzy".  Notice the large Daddy Long Leg/mosquito eater (we are still debating) on the left (not Jamie's addition) which I did not even notice  until after I uploaded the photo.

  

Drawing from Carys, who signed it as Carys McGhee "Princess"

Little Calay's drawing which Dan fittingly titled "Masterpiece With Crayons"

Probably the most articulate and witty drawing I've ever seen from a child. This is from Cayden  who not only drew this dinosaur by hand and but he glued on a copy of Matt and I at last year's  BYU graduation to make it look like we were about to get eaten. Then his witty meesage to Matt above "Try not to get eating in the Real World, Uncle Master Matt" 

Pomp and Circumstance - Master Matt has graduated!

Matt graduated on May 6th from the University of Utah with his Master Degree in Information Systems. He would like to be called "Master Matt" now which I definitely do not do but oh well, he tried.

I am so proud of him and so happy to be done! Matt has had a long, hard journey through college and I could not stop thinking how amazing it is that he has persevered and stuck through it all. I have never seen so much hassle through financial aid EVERY SEMESTER.  It seems like every semester, they lost his paperwork and he had to worry up to the last minute whether he was going to have to drop his classes.

Matt in his all his graduated hotness with his wife on his arm

We also love that he was the last of his siblings to get his Bachelor's Degree but the first to get his Master's Degree. And he is the first cousin on the Folsom side to get his Master's. I like to brag for him if you couldn't tell :)

We were honored to have his Grandma and Grandpa Folsom join us at the ceremony. It was not an easy event for them with all of the crowds, the walking and the sitting but Grandma was determined to make it since she was not there for his BYU graduation last year. I got to shuttle everyone around in a mini-van while Grandpa told me I'm definitely not a Utah driver. I took it as a compliment but I'm not quite sure if that's what he meant. Since we were in the Sugarhouse area, they even had me drive by the house where Grandma grew up.  It was nice to hear her share stories about her life and the area.

Matt's parents also came out for the trip and the ceremony and Johana and her three girls joined us as well. They are probably the only 3 kids I know that would sit through a whole graduation ceremony without complaining - especially since they came to the BYU graduation last year and definitely knew better. 

All of the Business school graduate students during the Graduation Ceremonies

Jeraldine and Johanita waiting for Uncle Matt's name to be called

Proudly displaying his diploma

Matt with his cute nieces who sat through the whole ceremony for him

The morning of Matt's ceremony, we went down to Provo to watch the twins Chinese Presentation. It was weird to not be able to understand anything but it was so cute to watch and they did a great job. Below are some pics from that.

The girls standing in front of their artwork for their Chinese presentation.