'Quite a bit of pomp....under the circumstances.'

Well, if you don't know that quote is from, I highly recommend you rent Bee Movie. And if you put two and two together, then you figured out that I am referring to graduation. That's right folks, after a year and half of hard work, late nights and long papers, Carson is officially done with his Master's Degree! I could not be more proud of him. He actually technically finished his classes about two weeks ago, but he walked in the ceremony yesterday. It was so neat! Not a very long ceremony, thank goodness, because I think that the kids would have gone nuts. He recieved his MBA with an emphasis in Global Management. It's really interesting because when he first started talking about getting his masters, everyone at Online down in Phoenix said that he would never be able to finish it on top of working a full time job. They all said that they got through their first few classes and stopped. I guess he showed them! I could not be more proud of him for all of the hard work he put in. I can't tell you all how many nights he was up until the wee hours finishing papers and proof reading papers from other team members and helping other's with their stats homework or getting help on his homework from other team members. He really worked so hard and I'm so glad that he had the opportunity to be honored for his work.

We're so proud and happy to have Daddy back!

We had some company come into town for the occasion which was nice as well. Carson's parents and his brother Jordan and his wife Allison all came into town. I'm glad they could be there for the event.

Instead of doing a party, which Carson emphatically said he didn't want, we decided to all go out to dinner at where else but the Hard Rock Cafe. I know what you all are thinking, Hard Rock again. Well, we have so many memories at Hard Rock that we decided it was only fitting. We had great food, as usual, and they mad a big deal about him graduating. They pulled him up in front of the whole restaurant, announced that he graduated and then told him that he could have a free sundae if he could eat it in 5 seconds. As you can see from the video, he did his best. I know the video isn't that great, but it's fun to use your imagination. They actually said that they've done that trick before and nobody has every made it that far into the sundae. So I guess we reached two milestones....MBA and confirmed ice cream eater extraordinare.

I'm not sure what the pose is that Carson is doing and I'm really bummed that Audrey didn't end up in the picture. :( I'm not sure why, but Siobhan was really sad/scared after the ice cream stuff. It was kind of cute!

Please refer to the next post for some more fun pictures!