So I'm finally posting about Chad's graduation and the party we had to celebrate!! He was involved in two separate graduation ceremonies... the first one was his Doctoral Hooding Ceremony and the second was his departmental graduation. Both of the ceremonies were awesome. I really enjoyed the Doctoral Hooding Ceremony because it was held in Royce Hall at UCLA which is really beautiful. ( I think that they usually hold music or theatre type events there). They called each student up on stage and "hooded" them with the correct color hood ( in his case, Navy Blue and Gold). Very cool.... The ceremony for his department was also very nice and much more informal. The coolest part was that because he had already participated in the hooding ceremony he sat on the the stage with the other professors and when his name was called they personally read his Dissertation Topic , etc..etc... It was also nice because Olivia ( along with 10 other family members) was able to attend and see her daddy graduate.
Later that day, after the departmental graduation, we held a HUGE party in our backyard to celebrate. I think we ended up with about 70 people or so... !!!! It was a luau theme and everyone really seemed to enjoy themselves...
(pause)... I'm having a contraction as I write... ai, yi, yi.
Anyway, I was REALLY happy that we made it through all the festivities without me going into labor or having a newborn around. It was a great celebration for my loving husband who worked for so long on a HUGE accomplishment.
He now has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology... what a stud!!
xoxox
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