he's a Captain! oh- and a doctor, too!

Graduation!!!

The big day came and went in a giant whirlwind of chaos!

The seven military graduates wore their dress uniforms instead of the typical grad gowns and I think they looked pretty impressive.  This is their 'military face' picture.  Kent's military face isn't too intimidating :)

I'm a pretty big fan of the dress blues! and it was nice to have Kent stand out a little so I could see him amongst all of the graduates!

During the ceremony all of the grads are 'hooded' with colored hoods (all doctorate programs hood their grads. it's some sort of weird scholarly tradition)- but the hood was placed over kent's arm instead over his uniform because it's against military rules to alter the uniform in any way.

They did get their own special part of the program where they were all commissioned to the rank of Captain.  It was pretty cool. 

Here's Kent with his four other friends from BYU who all did school together here. We were all in the same ward and they got to know each other pretty well.

Kent's parents came out for the big event and were a humongous help with moving and cleaning and watching kiddos!  Thank-you!!!

After graduation we went out to dinner with Kent's parents and Laney and taylor and it was great.  Laney and taylor missed out on the actual graduation (although I don't think they were too upset about not having to sit through three hours of hearing 200 people's names they cared nothing about!) to watch our kiddos.  It would have been torturous to wrestle Zeb and Ike for the three hours- so thank-you Laney and taylor!!

Dinner was delicious and I'm really sad that there is no Elephant Bar and Grill in Dayton!!

I realize that I make this face in quite a few pictures- but I do it so you can all sense my enthusiasm and excitement about things.  :)   Here I am pointing to Kent's Captain bars. I got to put them on him. I'm told it's tradition for the wife to do it.

The day was pretty bitter sweet. So sad to think about this chapter of our lives coming to an end. I really have loved living such a crazy/busy- yet pretty simple life. I can't even begin to try and write about how much I have loved Toledo- but the past four years of blogging have partially shown that!!  It's also so crazy and exciting to think about everything that Kent (and I) have done in the past four years.  We took a HUGE and ridiculously heavy tub full of kent's school notes to the dumpster the day we left and Kent told me that's what his brain feels like sometimes.  I can't even begin to understand the amount of information he's piled into his brain. It's unimaginable.  Kent's amazing and I couldn't have found a more perfect person to be with forever :) Thanks for your fabulous brain capacity, kent!!  Way to go муж! тебя люблю.