Commencement

Rob and I in a rare moment with all our kids (and a Penny photobomb!)
Hannah (15), Sierra (23), Dani (27), Grace (9), Jenna (21), Ethan (12)

We had a lovely day.  This morning we had family cleaning hour at Dani's! Always a favorite activity :)

I also went to Costco for our BBQ tomorrow.

Then we got Jenna and ran some errands she needed to do before we went to BYU for commencement.  It was a lot of fun to walk around campus with Jenna and to see her "first ever classroom, of her first class freshman year" and all the other fun places.  

Elder Russell M Nelson was the speaker.  He did a great job.  It was really something to be there listening to an apostle of the Lord, not at a church meeting, and to hear what he has to say.  It was powerful and focused on the family and marriage and being strong in your convictions.  It was a no holds barred call to arms to do good, to defend family/marriage and God.  I love the motto of BYU, come in to learn, go out to serve.  There was a lot of that there too.

Beautiful BYU.

The Joseph Smith memorial room in the JSBuidling.

After the festivities we met up with the family at Tacanos.  Dinner was yummy and it was so fun to have everyone at the same table together.  We missed Tatum and Clayton but had two sets of grandparents and UB and all the kids and Penny.  Pretty sweet!