Graduation Season!

Today my sister graduated from Hampton-Dumont High School. This marks my 5th graduation commencement at H-D that I've been to in a row plus my mom's Drake graduation in there as well. Commencements have obviously been a part of my life a lot recently. Through all of these I've listened to many different speakers and have really enjoyed the fact that H-D now uses teachers as the speaker. It's so much nicer to have someone who actually knows the students and it makes listening to the speeches so much better. Also I've come to realize how nice it is to go to a smaller high school where the commencement lasts about an hour and you know the majority of the people that you graduate with. I also enjoy going to the graduation parties and catching up with old friends and seeing teachers. It's always nice to be home. I will now also enjoy not going to a commencement for another 3 years when I graduate [and possibly Isaac]. Now here's a look back on the graduation celebrations that I've been a small part of in the past 5 years.

2007-Watching Traci graduate

 2008-My graduation with the siblings

 2009-Pekka's graduation with the siblings

 2009-Mom graduating from Drake [I believe Pekka took the picture]

 2010-Isaac's graduation

 2011-Carina's graduation

 The family at Carina's graduation

 Sisters [H-D graduates of 2008 and 2011]

 My favorite find in the trophy case today after commencement. I also discovered that I'm in the trophy case 3 times for conference champs in basketball and 2 times in track. I found that humerus since I really wasn't all that athletic in high school. 

So good luck to the graduates of Hampton-Dumont class of 2011 and also all of my DG sisters that graduated yesterday from Drake. I'm sure that all of you will do amazing things in your future!