Elizabeth's High School Graduation

I never knew how emotional it would be to have a child graduate from High School! The day that Elizabeth graduated from Seven Lakes High School was such a wonderful day! The entire day was spent honoring our beautiful graduate. Grandpa Bruce and Grandma Sharon came over to share this special day with us.

The principal, Mrs. Whitbeck, is big on the number 7 considering it is SEVEN Lakes HS. So, graduation was on June 7th at 7 pm.

We spent the afternoon having fun honoring Elizabeth. Darin and I had put together a DVD of pictures of Elizabeth's life set to music. It was emotional for everyone watching her grow up in pictures. She said it was her favorite gift, but I know know she loved getting her new Laptop computer! We had planned on giving her one for graduation but she didn't think we were going to give it to her until right before she leaves for BYU-ID. But, we surprised her with it now. We then ate Chicken and Steak cooked on the grill with baked potatoes and the fixings and salad. I told her she could have whatever she wanted for her graduation dinner and that's what she chose. We then quickly went outside for picture taking. It was a whirlwind day!!

The Honor GraduateElizabeth with Grandpa and Grandma McShane
Elizabeth, Trent, Eyn and Amberly

Our Family

The whole group! Grandma Sharon was hiding!

The Merrill Center - Elizabeth had to be there by 5:30 so I took her so I could save seats for our family. I was lucky to get seats on the second row behind a row of seats reserved for the teachers who entered with the students. They just happened to decide to sit behind the students instead so we didn't have anyone in front of us!! Great seats!!

Elizabeth entering the center and walked right in front of us! We had perfect seats!!

After she walked in she joined other Chorale Seniors on the stage where they got to sing the National Anthem. It was beautiful!! Elizabeth right after she came down from the stage with her diploma. Doesn't she look happy!!

Hats off to the Seven Lakes High School graduates of 2008!!

There was 577 graduates! This is the first class of graduates from SLHS to attend there for the full 4 years. The principal got up towards the end and congratulated them for not just graduated but for being exemplary students. They recently had their project prom at Dave and Busters and the Houston Police Dept. sought out the school administration to let them know that they had never had such a good group of students on Prom night before! The week before school was out they had their senior trip to Galveston where they spent the day at Schilterbahn and again the management there could not believe how well behaved and good they were. They truly are that! Congratulations Graduates!

Elizabeth and a happy Amberly!

Elizabeth with her proud Daddy!

Elizabeth and her "puppy" Trent.

Elizabeth with her taller but younger brother Eyn.

Elizabeth with her extremely proud Mom!

Our official High School Graduate Elizabeth

What a wonderful accomplishment you have achieved! We are incredibly proud of you and look forward to watching you continue on in your education at BYU-ID. You will do awesome and will achieve great things in your life! We love you!!