Master Jeremy

Last Wednesday was a great mail day!  I checked the mail after work and found 1- no bills  2- a rebate check from my insurance and 3- a check to us from our apartment complex for referring my co-worker to move into our complex!  

As if those weren't great enough, Jeremy's diplomas finally came! 

The top one is his Bachelors (notice the Magna Cum Laude, what a smartie!)  The second one is his Masters!  

We will work on finding a fancy frame for these expensive pieces of paper!  

So now that it is official - his degrees are posted and we have the diplomas we will do a flashback to May 6, 2011 when he "walked" for graduation.  

His crazy hood and funny sleeves.  He felt like he should be graduating from Hogwarts!

Mom and Dad Greer

The Greers- Robin and Caleb and Mom and Dad

Aaron and Jenny were there too but they had to head back to work.

Mom and Dad Hjorth

Go UTES!

I spy Jeremy

We could always find Jeremy easy cause he was right next to a guy with a huge head of hair!

Checking to see what they put inside 
(I think the guy behind him was pretty bored!)

It was a great day and I was oh so proud of him!  
Even though he didn't feel like it was an official graduation (since he still had the summer to work on and defend his thesis) it was still fun to celebrate and be with family.


August 18, 2011 Jeremy defended his thesis.  Here he was practicing his presentation the night before at our house. 

Before we headed to that U that morning I gave him a candy gram good luck poster that I made . . . . why?  
Because we both love candy!
Here is what is said  . . . .
Jeremy-
Congratulations!  You have survived MILK DUD professors, MOUNDS of homework and NUTRAGEOUS late nights of studying so you could SKOR well on all of your tests and projects!  You have had some ROCKY ROADS but have proved you can ROLL with the punches and that you are no DUM DUM!  Thanks for being such a SMARTIE and working so hard!  You are a RED HOT student in your WHATCHMACALLIT degree!  There will be no SNICKERS and only a SYMPOHNY of cheers after your defense!  I'll be the one in the front row BURSTING with happiness for you!  Can't wait for you to be able to start to LOOK for your perfect job so you can make 100 GRAND!  You'll do great because you have worked EXTRA hard in preparing.  I don't think you are an AIR HEAD but you are one BIG HUNK that I love to the MILKY WAY!

and in case you are wondering, yes we still are have some of the candy bars left almost 5 months later!

Here he is getting his presentation set up.  He talked for a couple hours and answered questions from his committee and audience with perfect ease!  His committee signed off on his thesis that day (meaning he passed!) but they did want him to make a few revisions.  

I know that he is loving not having to worry about school and homework every waking moment of his life!  It has been a fun few months of us just working and coming home at night and not having to worry about how late he will be up doing school stuff!  I am grateful for all of his hard work that he put forth in school.  He was a very dedicated and motivated student (the motivation was running low the last few months though!)  

Congratulations on graduating officially Jeremy!  

We are all so proud of you!

Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year!  I took a few extra days off and Jeremy had the whole week off after Christmas!  

The holidays started off by heading downtown and going to Jeremy's work party at the Grand America.  We always have such a good time talking with his co-workers, eating yummy food and enjoying a fun talent show!  It was a fun night and of course trumped the Golden Corral lunch I went to the day before with my work!  (I am not complaining, getting out of the office for a free buffet lunch was great . . . it just isn't the Grand America!)  We always enjoy walking around the hotel after dinner.

The next weekend we met Jeremy's family at the Lion House.  We enjoyed great food and being all together (it even involved a fun white elephant gift game!)

We had a fun Christmas Eve dinner with my family (the fondue tradition lives on!) and woke up and opened presents then went to church with my parents.  After dinner we headed to Brett and Wendy's in Provo to say hi to them and their girls and Jeremy's parents.  It was fun visiting and playing with the girls and all of their fun things they got for Christmas.  

For christmas I got a sewing machine and serger which I am really excited about.  I have used my sewing machine but haven't opened the serger yet (I am still a little intimidated by it!)  

We had a great holiday season with family and friends and feel so blessed for everything we have!  We are looking forward to next year when there will be a 3rd Greer to join us in all the fun festivities!

Tessa's Birthday

Tessa turned 3 in November so we went down to Mapleton to celebrate with her!  

We had a lot of fun watching her open presents and eating pizza and ice cream with everyone.  We ended the night with dancing to games on the Kinect.

 She leaned into her cake and got frosting right on the cupcake on her shirt!

 I am 3!!!

 Gummy Bear Song

 Chad is such a great dancer too!

 How many people can you fit on a couch?!

Hatee showing off her dads new phone!

It's a . . . . .

Girl!

 

Look at that cute foot!

We went to the ultrasound and at first the tech couldn't tell if she was a boy or a girl.  She took all the measurements and gathered all the information they needed.  Since she still couldn't tell the sex for sure she had me get up and move around and go to the bathroom (which was a welcome relief, since I hadn't gone to the bathroom in over 3 hours and had drank a lot of water in prep for the ultrasound!).  We started the ultrasound again and luckily it only took a couple minutes for the ultrasound tech to say "oh, it's a girl!"  

I was a little shocked because I was thinking it would be a boy. (I hadn't had any dreams or revelations . . I just thought it would be boy . . . oh and because the chinese calendar said it would be!)

     We are pretty excited!

Last Day

Saturday morning we had to check out of our hotel but our flight didn't leave until 10:00 that night so we had all day to enjoy!  

We first headed to the "National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl".

I stole this information from their website . . I thought it was interesting so just copied it from their website!

Built in 1948 this National Cemetery is located in the Pu'owaina Crater (Punchbowl). In ancient times this crater was known as the "Hill of Sacrifice". So today the cemetery is a memorial to the sacrifice made by the men and women in the United States Armed Services. Dedicated on September 2, 1949, 776 casualties from the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor were among the first to be buried here.

I thought this flower was so pretty!

Lady Columbia symbolizes all grieving mothers and looks out on the cemetery that fills the 116-acre Punchbowl Crater.  The view from the Punchbowl encompasses the city of Honolulu from Waikiki and Diamond Head to Pearl Harbor.

The impressive memorial sits high on the wall of the crater overlooking the graves area of the cemetery. It consists of a non-sectarian chapel, two map galleries, a monumental staircase leading from the crater floor to the Court of Honor, and ten Courts of the Missing. A total of 28,778 names are inscribe on the ten Courts of the Missing which flank the staircase.

You can't really tell but all of these towers had names on them

It was a great experience being there and we were glad that we had the chance to go and see all of the names posted and all the graves of the people who have been buried there.    

Then we headed to the Dole Plantation to see all different kinds of pineapples there are and eat delicious pineapple ice cream!  

I said to Jeremy "turn around and smile" . . and this is what I got!  

He also found a new girlfriend while we were there.

Yum Yum Yum is all I can say about this . . . . and I wish I were eating it right now!

Crazy trees we saw on the drive from the plantation

We headed to the North Shore and watched a surfing competition for a while!  The waves were pretty big!

We stopped at Turtle Bay to enjoy the big waves there too!

On our way to the airport!  

We had a wonderful week!  It was a perfect way to celebrate our anniversary, graduation and life!  Until next time Hawaii . . . we will miss you!