Aaron's Graduation

Aaron graduated with his Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering this week! He knocked off a couple of graduate courses while still at BYU, then spent 4 long years taking online courses through the University of Arizona while working full time. It involved working on school pretty much every evening and most Saturdays. Despite all the time spent on that, he still managed to to be an awesome dad and husband. This guy is pretty much Superman. 

Elliot has always been very supportive of his father's schooling

Our pal Lakin volunteered to take some pictures with her nice camera.

I really wanted a picture of Elliot wearing the cap

This was the best we got

Elliot decided that this long sleeved robe must be a ghost costume. Aaron embraced that vibe. 

I sure love this guy.

 We got a babysitter and headed up to the university for the graduation ceremony. We had only been up to campus a few times and didn't know our way around at all. This was one of the many reasons this graduation was different from our BYU graduation four years ago. 

Proof he had a hood. Lakin and I had it looking better during the photoshoot, but this was the best I could do.
A volunteer went down the line of graduates shortly after this and did them completely different anyway. 

 Graduation was held at the U of A stadium. Aaron made a brief cameo on the big screen that I sadly was not quick enough to snap a picture of. The keynote speaker was Major General Charles Bolden, former director of NASA. He was awarded an honorary degree for his work with the University's space program, which is one of the best in the nation. 

Aaron was somewhere down there

The ceremony ended with a fireworks display accompanied with way too loud pounding music that made me feel like a curmudgeonly old grump. How can people enjoy music when the bass is rattling their bones and making their ears ache? Despite the finale (which many people did seem to enjoy), we had a good time celebrating Aaron's hard work. We are both glad he went for it, but even more glad that it is over!

 

On Aaron's first night without school work to do, I fully expected him to take the evening off while I worked. Instead, he jumped right in to the summer programming project he made up for himself. He's a hard worker!