Is There a Doctor in the House?

Last week we went to Utah and Brady GRADUATED!

Here he is being officially hooded.

Here he is with his fake diploma, but official doctorhood.

Ellie did pretty well during the graduation, especially since it was an hour shorter than we thought it would be. Grover was a good sport too.

Celebrating with the brothers. We did lots of celebrating last week, which mostly meant a lot of eating.

We had a great party hosted by our good friend Daniel (thanks again) at his awesome house. Good food, good friends, good times.

Ellie making good with Brady's dissertation adviser Brent.

Ellie a little more in her element with cousin Phoebe. These two were hilarious together, chasing each other around the house, squealing every time they saw each other, and here hiding in their "fort" under the desk. It was nice for Ellie to get a little girl cousin time.

Ellie eating a root beer float after being stung by a wasp. She tried to both drink and sit in the bowl of ice water we got for her stung hand, so this ended up being more soothing. She later decided to run through the neighbor's sprinkler, so she rebounded pretty well.

All in all, a pretty good trip with lots of parties (way too much eating) to round out the whole doctoral experience. For those of you out there on the fence about graduating, I highly recommend it.