Pictures Worth More Than 1,000 Words!

Going to let the pictures say it all (well most of it) in this post:

Queue the music: Dum dum da dee dum dum, dum dum da de dum...
Please rise...

A few more people than we had seats saved for. (Neal, you're a trouper!)
(Saving seats wasn't too challenging until the very end. Some guy says "I'll just sit here," and directs his family elsewhere. I tell him the seats are saved and he looks at me like I'm nuts and that he's about to argue. I'd been there for at least an hour holding seats and he walks in a few minutes before and expects seats up close? Thankfully everyone was coming down right behind him so I didn't have to look like I was just being difficult.)

Somewhere in this sea of caps, gowns and hoods is Amanda!

There she is!!!

On her way to be hooded.

(Sorry it's a little shaky.) She's one happy girl and totally deserves to be so! (Hugs were from Whitney, her former roommate and best friend, & Linda, her amazing major professor.)

Yes, she's on the phone after just graduating, making lunch reservations actually.

He says he doesn't sleep through things like this; hmmmmm.....caught ya!

Look at that smile...writing her 160+ page thesis in approximately 3 months, she deserves to smile as often and big as she wants!

Lots of hugs for our girl!

All official now!

Photos outside after:

The roommates; two of whom graduate the next day

(Courtney, Amy, Amanda, & Whitney)

Close up with Dad, that didn't really work...

The Loveland Family with Amanda (glasses on & off)

(Liz, Emily (a HS grad two weeks later), Amanda, Ann, Kevin, & Neal. Missed you Matt & Rebecca!)

With JaNae & Dad 

So happy to be finished!

Now that she's got her master's degree she thinks she's in charge (we were there to celebrate her so, yes come to think if it, she was in charge.)

Well done Amanda!!!!! We are so very PROUD of YOU!