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Graduation Day 8.4.2012

After two intensive years, the day has finally come- Graduation.

It's like after typing that sentence, I just feel done... like there's nothing more to say, or perhaps I just want to sit there, staring at those words to really soak it in. 

Of course it hasn't fully sunk in... after all we do have two more weeks of class to finish out our capstone presentations.  And, hearing from my other classmates we all still have guests in town, and I'll be the first to say between graduation parties and guests and other commitments, I haven't stopped running for 3 days straight.

That too, after determining to take a weeks vacation right before graduation.  Matt and I called it our Babymoon, and we enjoyed 7 days in beautiful Mexico.  It has always been important to me to find that work-life balance, and it was a great time to spend together away from the pressures of work, presentations and deadlines.  We swam with sea turtles, laid out in the sun, kayaked, rappelled, and he even zip lined.  All this to celebrate our monumental year where he graduated from Texas State as a Licensed Specialist in School Psychology and we found out we were pregnant and now my graduation.

We also celebrated with a party at our house.  Nearly 50 people packed into our 1600 sq ft house, and we had a desserts bar catered by my friend Paige Morgan of Paige's Bakehouse.  Since I missed the pinning ceremony at Concordia while I was in Mexico, I dedicated my pins at my party.  Pins went to my wonderful husband, to those who provided me scholarships and then to my mentors, Teri Hill, Dr. Edna Rehbein and Scott Alarcon.  We then passed around cake pops to everyone, counted to three and everyone bit in to display a blue center- We're having a boy!!!

In a few closing posts I hope to evaluate more about what my MBA means to me, and even update how our capstone presentations go.  For now, I'm just going to focus on finishing strong, and trying to keep my 4.0 in these last two weeks, when my mind is thinking about preparing for our little one, and trying to not fully check out... seeing as how I've already walked and all.  Guess all that's left to do is as the title of one our texts said- to Walk Out and Walk On.