Congratulations William!

I know that everyone always says where does the time go, but honestly how can William be graduating already from college? I mean it was just yesterday when we were making trips back and forth to our local high school for one thing or another and now he has a college cap and gown hanging on his bedroom closet door!

We ended up driving up the night before his graduation because the first ceremony was starting early in the morning and we didn’t want to be late because of the weather. And man oh man that was a good call! We took the truck because we weren’t sure how our gravel roads would be when we got back home and when we were leaving for Ames that night we had already about 10 inches of new snow at our farm. But as we were driving the weather was a little warmer going south and then for the life of us we couldn’t keep the windshield clean of ice. The heater was cranked as high as it goes and it was so hot in the cab I was literally worried about the eggs that we were bringing with us. But you had to keep it so hot to try to keep the ice at least somewhat off the bottom of the windshield so you could see when you were driving. So when we finally got to the kids, we were glad that we didn’t have to try that drive early in the morning tomorrow and all we had to do that night was to kick back and hang out.

The photo below is one of the Jumbotron at the stadium while we were waiting for the second ceremony to start. We got there pretty early because the weather was still terrible outside and that meant we had a lot of time to kill. It’s a picture that I put out on Twitter of William that the college picked up and put on the Jumbotron. Now ours wasn’t the only one that they posted, and we did pick a nice picture to submit.  

But with that said, you know the feeling that you get when you’re either watching your kid in a musical, sports, or a concert? Well it’s the same feeling that I felt while waiting for them to call his name at graduation. You try not to look too anxious, but inside you’re just busting at the seams. And guess what? When I looked around I was sure that I wasn’t the only one feeling that way. There was a lot of proud parents and friends there that I know also were pretty excited. 

Once the ceremony had started and all the graduates walked on stage for their diplomas, they all took out their streamer horns and shot them off at once. It was VERY cool! The first picture is just when the first streamers were flying – William is in this picture but it’s hard to see him. We were literally straight across from him during the ceremony.  

This picture is one of when the streamers were almost gone and the end of the program. 

It was such a great weekend and I couldn’t be more proud!  I am very excited for him to start his next adventure in his life and I know that he’ll do well.

Congratulations William!!!