Graduation

Our epic adventures this summer all started on April 20th when Colin and I graduated from BYU! It was such a great feeling to be finished with school after so many years.

The actual graduation ceremonies were just a tad boring. In fact I fell asleep in both the Convocation and my own nursing graduation. Despite the long speeches it was still fun to attend both and I am glad that I did. I am grateful that I was able to graduate with Colin so we could take cute pictures together in our gowns.

 I graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing

 

 Colin graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Management with a Strategy Emphasis 

He also graduated Summa Cum Laude 

 

Overall graduation was great. I was so grateful to have so much of my family there. My parents and sisters came, along with both of my grandmothers, my Aunt Jena and Uncle Brian, my Uncle Daren and my cousin Haley. It was so fun to see all of them and spend time together.

My Grandma Bobbi and Grandma Fuller

I love these ladies!!

My Nursing Class. These are some pretty amazing people if you ask me.

As I have spent time reflecting on my college years I have realized how truly blessed I am. I had so many amazing opportunities to learn and grow as person. I have to admit I made a lot of mistakes over the past few years but thankfully I learned from them and am continuing to be a better person today (hopefully anyways). I have so many happy memories including freshmen year in the dorms, summers spent in CO, BYU Football games, road trips, camping trips, game nights, living with my sister for a couple months, and of course my journey to Tonga. But the best thing that happened to me over the past four years was meeting my dearest love Colin. I am so blessed to have met this amazing person and I am so glad that he decided he could put up with me for the rest of his life :) I am grateful for the opportunity I had to attend BYU and for the experiences that have made me into the person I am today!

Finally

I have finally decided to start a blog! I am kind of overwhelmed at the thought of having a blog because I am not the best writer and I don't have much to say about the world, but I thought at least my mom and mother-in-law would enjoy seeing what we have been up to.

The hardest part of creating this blog was deciding what to title it. I put Colin in charge of coming up with a creative name. I quickly realized that was a bad idea.  The only names he could think of were Robin's Nest, lyrics from The Killers songs, or Colandrea (which sounds like a STD). He even asked for help on Facebook to come up with a good name and Robins Nest and Colandrea came up again!! So I had the brilliant idea to title it, I Carry Your Heart With Me. This is the title of a poem by E. E. Cummings that was read by the sealer at our wedding. It is a tender poem that is very special to me now.

Well I have a million things to post on this blog about graduation, our wedding, our honeymoon, Disney World, and moving to Chicago to name a few. So be excited to see more awesome pictures like this: