Nursing School Graduation

After two very fast, very long years, it was time for graduation! Graduation was Monday, May 24th. The day before we spent our Sunday afternoon relaxing and shopping in Reno. The above photo of us was taken while we were having lunch. Dwayne's parents flew in from Texas for the events and my Uncle Bill, Aunt Lisa and Cousin Amanda drove in from California.
Family and friends from in town and nearby towns also attended.

Monday came and it was time to get ready. I took a break to have a little snack. :)

My sister has been working towards her Fine Arts degree while I was working on my Nursing degree. She graduated that night too.

We decided to take some family pictures before the ceremony since we knew how crazy it can get once things get going.

Dwayne and Me outside our house.

Dwayne's Dad, Dwayne, Me and Dwayne's Mom

Me with Auntie, Cousin Jordan, and Melanie

Me with Mom, John and Melanie

Us Girls

Cousin Amanda, Me, Melanie, Aunt Lisa, and Uncle Bill

Before long it was time to head to the ceremony. It was held at the Barkley Oats Park Arts Center. Mom snook downstairs to find us in the waiting area to catch a quick shot of us.

The ceremony was very nice. They always open with a beautiful bagpipe group, then the national anthem, and then of course the guest speakers. After all the formalities were done, it was time to walk across that stage! Above is my sister with her turn.

Then it was my turn to go!

It felt wonderful to walk across the stage and have that moment after all the hard work that went into getting there!

My nursing classmates decided to sit all together. We were at the back of the group, but believe me, everyone knew we were there! At the end of the ceremony as everyone was exiting the stage we decided to do the wave! It was a nod to one of our classes from spring semester. For review, our teachers liked to play jeopardy. Sometimes they would give out extra points for extra enthusiasm so we would be extra loud and one of the things we would do was the wave!

Above is what was considered the Western Nevada College Rural Nursing Group. Way to go guys, we made it! Aren't we a great looking group of Nurses?