brett's grand grad weekend

the time has come for brett to end his hard work with school and graduate so we could get the crap out of rexburg.

and at byui they split up the graduation ceremonies according to your degree so brett's graduation festivities was an entire weekend affair.

(pics were taken by our sweet friend steve moa!)

     brett's convocation where steve and i attacked brett with candy leis that steve had made for brett.

it's a polynesian thang and it was really sweet of him to make em, pretty sure brett was freakin surprised!  haha  brett was blingin out in candy (which is a great road trip goody)

 brett's dear parents.  their last one in the family has grown up and graduated with a degree!

 steve and gwen and baby sienna!

we freakin miss them so much

i am so proud of my man.  all those long nights with his study group, takin tests and reading powerpoint stuff when he coulda been at home with his barfing woman.  i love him so much! 

 our other awesome friends, robert and raffaela, who we miss so freakin much too.



 hangin out with santa claus AKA gwen's dad.  he grows his beard out every Christmas and does "gigs and appearances" all over rexburg and has done so for 13 years!  this is as close to a mall santa as you can get in rexburg, except he's not creepy.

 baby sienna is about 8 weeks now and she is just the sweetest thing.  and she has these BEAUTIFUL deep blue eyes!  which isn't what we were expecting cuz of steve's togan looks.  she's a beautiful baby!

 the BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY IDAHO CENTER.  this is the thing they've been building for years and i remember in my freshman year that it was just a big hole in the ground.  it looks so similar to the conference center in SLC and holds just 6,000 less.  brett was part of the first class to have graduated in this building!  pretty cool, just one of the good memories we'll have from rexburg.

 our good friend sarah who brett grew up with in texas.  she and her hubby, jared, graduated together!  so cute. i didn't realize till i saw this pic that i'm starting to bust at the seams!  holy crap, i really wouldn't have worn this sweater when you can see the uneven button line.  another thing to throw into the "can't fit into this right now" pile. 

 when brett got his cap and gown, i thought he sorta looked like

*a dementor from harry potter

*a judge

*or a hogwarts professor from harry potter

but he did look cute.

 we're truly grateful for the sweet friends that we've made in rexburg, the lessons we've learned in school, the fact that we met here and spent the first 2 years of our marriage and found out we're pregnant and the memories we'll just always have.

but peace out rexburg.  hopefully if we come back it'll be in 20 years dropping our kid off to school if they wanna come here.

so what's next for the caldwells??

*Christmas in Texas and try not to die driving there from ut

*brett finds a job

*we move wherever brett finds a job

*i pop out a kid

i think that sounds like a good plan yeah?