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Some of you may have thought J.M. graduated in 2005 when we left BYU and moved to California. That is not the case. J.M. left BYU with 3 online classes to finish before he could graduate. He procrastinated them for almost 4 more years. It took me promising him he could buy a wakeboard tower for our boat to get him to finally finish. Even with the tower in sight, it still took him another year to pull it all together. Though it was a lot of nagging, it paid off. J.M. finally did it! And I am proud of him. So I threw him a surprise graduation party and invited all of his friends and even his family. The biggest surprise was that his family decided to fly in last minute for the big surprise. The photos will show the amazement on his face. Priceless! Oh and J.M. did get his tower, just one week later.

Surprise #1: The party screams “Surprise! It’s about time J.M.!” Here is his face:

Friends yelling surprise!

Surprise #2: J.M. spots his dad, and his face is priceless. He has no idea why his dad would be at the party.

We had to dress him up in cap and gown. It made it official.

I am looking a bit thrashed considering I had my kidney stone episode just days before. I can’t believe I pulled it off! Thanks to the McKissick’s for being my sneaky partners in crime and keeping J.M. out of the house for 4 hours, and to everyone who contributed and came. It was a lot of fun and I know J.M. felt the love. Thanks friends and family!

Here is his coveted reward. Funny, I don’t remember anyone giving me a reward for graduating. Hmmm…..J.M. it is my birthday soon…..

Since becoming quite large during pregnancy, I have been known to wear J.M.’s sweats around the house. I did not know it would result in him wearing my clothes too. He did comment that my p.j.s were quite comfortable. Pretty funny.

This has been my life for about 2 months. Since February, Carter has had the stomach flu 3 times, and I have had it twice. Days after the last spat of the stomach flu, Carter woke up looking like a cherry tomato. Pictures will follow. I thought he had the measles or something and rushed him to the doctor. Luckily it was just hives. I guess he is extremely allergic to something. We have yet to find out what that is.

Last week I thought I was in pre-term labor, but to my relief and yet extreme discomfort I found out that I was passing a kidney stone. Having never passed a kidney stone before, I thought my extreme back pain and abdominal pain was due to labor. To say the least, mini-labor before the real labor is not my cup of tea.

I have also had 2 colds, resulting in an achy body and head-aches, and now this weekend Carter woke up with a temperature of 104.3! I was extremely worried as I watched my busy body son sit motionless and in a daze all day. So I rushed him to the hospital AGAIN to find out it is probably the flu. I think I have totaled between Carter and I (NOT COUNTING PRE-NATAL VISITS) 5 visits to the doctor in one month. With my pre-natal visits and ultra-sounds, that would be 7 times! Crazy! I am so SICK of being SICK!

This is 2 hours after we gave him benedryl. He looked a lot worse before this. J.M. didn’t want to take him out to eat even though he felt fine, for fear people would think he was contagious.

Still in good spirits despite his appearance!