Brandon's graduation 2015

Well, Brandon graduated high school!  Looking back over all of his cute school pictures, I can't believe he is all grown up (mostly).  :)  Seriously, it just went way too fast!

I made him a cute "graduation" hat, and put it on top of a glass jar filled with candy.  He definitely liked that.  I think it turned out really cute, if I do say so myself...and I do.  Ha!

And then this was my favorite part of his gift.  I couldn't wait to give him these.  Brandon has always talked about how when he grows up, he is going to have lots of "gold bars." He says he'll be rich and he will share some of them with the homeless.  

I found these "gold bars" on the internet and I filled them with candy.  They turned out great and Brandon loved them...Seriously, they looked pretty real!

I put them all around the glass jar inside the basket...

And then I added bundles of money throughout the basket as well.  It was pretty awesome!  We really didn't know what to get Brandon for graduation since he is leaving for his mission soon.  So we figured money would be the best thing.  He wasn't complaining about that!

Graduation was on June 5th at 1:00 in the afternoon at Cottonwood High School.  It was so crowded!  I have never seen the auditorium so full of people before.  We ended up sitting in the balcony and it was hot and noisy.  Plus, we could hardly see anything on the stage.  But we were there and we were proud of Brandon.  He was an awesome student and worked very hard through all of his years at school!  He graduated with a 3.9 GPA!  Awesome sauce!

Here are some pictures after graduation...

"I did it!!"

I don't remember the names of these kids...oops!

This is Brandon and "Agnes" (aka Stacy Bevan).  Cute picture...

Stacy, Brandon, Amber (band teacher), ?, Hunter, and Sully (choir teacher)

Sam, Hunter, and Brandon...such good friends.

Brandon and Amber...

I can't remember this girl's name and sadly Brandon isn't home for me to ask him...so it will have to wait for a couple of years.  Sorry (girl)...

After graduation, Todd and I took Brandon out to dinner at spaghetti factory.  It was awesome and yummy!  We came home afterwards and later that evening, Brandon left to go to the all night graduation party at Cottonwood.  

We are so proud of you Brandon.  Way to go graduate!!