Graduation from Dental School May 27th, 2016

The night before graduation was the banquet. Kyle and I had been looking forward to this for years! It was just the two of us and it was all about celebrating my Doctor! The dinner was held at the Science Museum which was so cool! Dinner after hours in the Museum? Yes please! 

It was a very fancy three course meal and it was delicious! The dessert was incredible. I would have had ten of them. They had all of the graduates pictures up on a big screen. There were speeches and awards. Then they called everyone up one by one and said what everyone was doing after graduation and gave them a little gift bag. It was so neat! 

We sat with Jarom and his wife, Todd and his wife, mom, dad and brother and sister in law. Derik and Kaity were right behind us at a different table. 

Kyle and his friends. These guys had way to much fun together over the past four years. Lots of ridiculous stories and text message conversations. Isaac wasn't able to come that night and we couldn't find Steven for the picture. 

And then it was graduation day!!! The day we had been waiting for and dreaming of for years!! It was kind of a bummer, the weather was miserable. Low 50s, cold, windy and rainy. The graduation was supposed to be outside. The only way they would move it inside was if there was thunder and lightening. So all week we were dreading that we would have to sit outside in the freezing cold and rain! Luckily the day before they caved and moved it into a new hotel right down the street from the school. It was really nice! We were so grateful. It was such a beautiful ceremony! 

Kyle had to leave early to "go to" an earlier graduation ceremony. He didn't end up going to that ceremony. Him and his friends played a last few games of pool and foosball. They spent a lot of time there over the years! 

I had to snap a picture in Kyle's cap. I feel like I earned it a little bit too.

One of my favorite parts of graduation was my dad hooding Kyle! It was such a special thing. 

My favorite picture from graduation. Introducing Dr. Kyle Cordner. Seriously he is the best. 

I love this family of mine! We are so lucky to have a wonderful husband and father that does so much to make all of our dreams come true. 

These are all pictures of us waiting for graduation to start. 

Jane had everyone around us wrapped around her finger. I think the family in front of us was a little nervous about all the kids we had with us. 16 in total! Ha ha. But all the kids did great. Juliet had to "go to the bathroom" a couple times. Really she just wanted to get out of that room. After they called Kyle's name and he walked across the stage I let them watch Mickey Mouse on my phone for the rest of the 60+ graduates after Kyle. 

These are the pictures of Kyle walking across stage and getting hooded. They are blurry because my camera can't handle an indoor setting. But I still love them! 

This picture on more time... because its awesome! 

All the family pictures after. We were walking on air. I started bawling when I saw Kyle for the first time. 

This is my favorite family picture. Super real! 

We love Derik and Kaity! 

Kyle and Todd. 

After the Graduation we headed over to our Church building. I had set up a little luncheon there for all of us. And it was so fun! I made a Soda bar for Kyle. All kinds of sodas and flavorings. I got black and gold cups and straws which was fun. We put Jane down for a nap in a pack n' play in an empty classroom. Ha ha. It made the lunch much more enjoyable. 

Costco for the win for everything else! It was low key but delicious. 

It was a perfect day! I love this man of mine. He is so hardworking. He is dedicated and loyal. He is patient and so sweet. He makes me feel so loved and special. He is the best dad to his girls. I am so lucky to be married to my best friend. 

Graduation Weekend and the Bolder Boulder

Graduation weekend was a dream! Saturday we moved out of our house. It was so crazy! We had so many people show up to help and then all of my family was there helping too. It was awesome. We had our whole house loaded up in about 45 minutes. 

Sunday we went to church for the last time. That was bittersweet. I already miss those wonderful people so much. 

After dinner we tried to go check out Red Rocks but there was a concert that night. Lots and lots of people smoking and tailgating. So we got out of there and went over to the Ken Caryl area by Dean and Jolene's house. It was a blast! It could not have been a more perfect evening. There was a huge storm about to hit Red Rocks, but luckily it missed where we were further down south. We hiked all over and then sat and chatted while the kids played on the play ground. 

Carson and Kyle hiking up the boulders.

All the cute little cousins hanging out! We are going to miss the Sellers! 

I told Carson he really had to work it in order to get those BYU girls to like him. Kyle rocked it pretty good too! ;)

The kids were all in Heaven. Abby and Jules kept finding wild flowers to pick and bring to me. 

The best picture you can get with 12 kids...

Aunt Halee is the sweetest! 

Then Monday we ran the Bolder Boulder. Saturday and Sunday we were all getting antsy to get to Arizona. We wanted to move into our new house and everyone else wanted to get home. But we had all signed up to run the Bolder and Boulder so we were all sticking around. We got up super early Monday morning and drove up to Boulder. Kelly stayed with our girls and Halee and Tragdon. We found a good parking spot between the starting and finishing line and hung out for a few hours. We went to a little bakery for bit and then when it warmed up we headed to the starting line. There were SO many people! They were starting a wave at the starting line every couple minutes. Each wave had about a 100 people in it. We slowly walked with out wave closer and closer to the starting line. And then we all took off! It was the funnest race I have ever ran! The energy was incredible. There were spectators the entire way. People that live in the neighborhood and different companies had set up stands with food and entertainment the entire way. There were bands all over the place. Lots of belly dancing (we all could have done without that!) and tons and tons of great energy! My mom and dad had taken off a the beginning and I spent the entire time trying to catch up to them. I finally caught my dad about mile 3. But my mom ended up finishing about a minute before me! It was easily my fastest 10k ever. I ran about an 8:45 the entire time! Through the hills and the heat and the elevation. That was huge for me! Kyle did AMAZING! He had never ran 6 miles before and he rocked it. Everyone did so well. The race finished in the University of Colorado stadium, and let me tell you that was the coolest thing ever. Thousands of people cheering you on and big loud music! You had to run almost all the way around it to the finish line and I was sprinting. I felt like I could fly! It was such a huge high. I ran into my mom right after I crossed and then every few minutes someone else would cross and we all met up at the top of the stadium. What an incredible experience! We were all saying that we have to come back and do it again! 

All of us at the starting line

Me and my mom at the finish line! 

All of us at the top of the stadium! 

It was the perfect end to the perfect weekend. It was the best possible way to say good bye to Colorado. What a perfect beautiful place we were blessed to live in!

Abby's Birthday

We celebrated our sweet Abby in Vail this year. I seriously can't believe that she is 5! I had bought these party hats for her birthday party and then forgot to bring them to the park. So we brought them up to the hotel with us. Kyle, Jules, Jane and I waited so patiently for Abby to wake up! We were so excited to yell "surprise!" like she wanted us too. She had given us very specific instructions as to how she wanted her birthday morning to go down. Ha ha. 

She opened a present from us and from her grandparents. 

Jane left her hat on almost the entire morning. It was awesome! 

Waiting for our birthday girl to wake up! 

Kyle and Tim had picked out these yummy cupcakes for her birthday. She ate almost all of them. 

The rest of her birthday was crazy. We drove home from Vail, Jane threw up all over me. I had to hurry and get a bunch of stuff for Kaitys baby shower that I was throwing that night! So hardly saw my sweet girl on her birthday. We love that little girl. So much. She is seriously the greatest. She is sweet, kind and loyal. She is the best big sister. She cares so deeply about her family. She is shy, but she loves people. She makes me so proud every single day! I love her! Thanks for turning 5 Abby!