Nurse Sara

Last Thursday I had the distinct pleasure to attend my sister Sara's graduation from nursing school.  It was held in Elmira, so I took the day off and Owen and I made the drive back home to go.  Dennis had to work and miss out on the festivities. 
We secretly decorated the house while Sara was rehearsing as a surprise.

As we started driving to the ceremony, Natalie and I noticed an ominous sight...

Add a tornado warning to the fun for the night.  We didn't actually get one where we were, but we were quite worried during the ceremony as the lights kept flickering.

This was when Sara spotted all of us

I think this group was the worst behaved in the whole room.  The worst was my mother, who couldn't stop giggling at various things throughout the ceremony.  That's a story for another day...but she was keeping us entertained.

Sara going up to get pinned

woo hoo!  All graduated!




We all got our photo ops with the new grad then headed out in the massive storm.

We got back to Mom and Dad's and cracked open the champagne to celebrate.

Of course we had a cookie cake as well...Sara's favorite!

We are all very proud of Sara graduating from college.  She worked very hard and will now be able to start an exciting new career that I'm sure she will succeed at.  Great job Sara!