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Audrey Graduates!

And just like that, she is done with high school!
A couple of days before, I had her try on all the cords she received. We have lovingly teased her about being a boss lady for quite sometime, but it is a legitimate moniker!
I think she was pleased to have more cords than her older siblings too:)

Cords and what they represent:
white-Seminary graduate
red- Red Cross club
rainbow- art for 2+ years with an A
purple-maintaining a 4.0 GPA for 7+ semesters
blue & green- completing 200+ service hours
blue & gold- National Honor Society club

She decorated her cap as a future cougar:)
Still planning her outfits out since kindergarten and I love it.
Picking up the older kids the day of her graduation...haha

Our go-to Hawaiian plate lunch meal for graduation!

💗Ready to go💗
Aunt Marcie flew in for the best surprise visit!
 She made it memorable for everyone.
 And served as our graduation photographer.
If I hadn't been so busy, I would have cried upon her arrival💗





Cougar for life!
It was a beautiful evening for a graduation ceremony:)


This sums up Audrey's experience in school quite well. 
I remember her telling me her school was like being in a movie and everything and everyone seemed so random. 
Fast forward to her walking with a kid who no one really knew and clearly...had some feelings about his own experience.
 
Smile and wave boys, smile and wave :)

It just shows you how you can decide how you want to live and what opportunities you can make for yourself. 
Also, just the perfect image of public education at it's finest.
 It really is what you make of it! 
She just shines though🌟

We submitted her "Turkey" look for her baby picture😄
hugs
photobombs
sibling power!
Danica & Eva 
(the best church friends!)

the fab four
Angel, Zoe, Jaya, Samara, Audrey & Akiko
adding in Mirabelle and Zeph!
Audrey and Ayla

Akiko and Josie
I love these best friends!
(sidenote: Audrey is going to Japan at the end of June with Akiko for 10 days!) 
Audrey, this is just the beginning!
 We have had the best time with you during your senior year. 
You have been the most fun senior to have in our house!
 You have taken advantage of all that you have wanted to do. 

Audrey has this ability to visualize how she wants her life to be or what she wants out of a situation and then makes it happen with grace. I am not the only person who has said...
I want to be Audrey when I grow up :)
Oftentimes, I receive comments about her being on the ball, or being ready for adulthood when she was 16, being a boss, or just having everything put together. 
Anyway, she has some serious skills!


She is such a good sister, friend and daughter. She somehow makes time for all of us.
She is hard working, self disciplined, humble, wickedly hilarious (and slightly savage), so smart, determined, an incredible baker, gracious, poised, and accepting of all kinds of people.

We love you Audrey. 

We will try hard to not miss you come September but no guarantees! :)
Onward! 

 
 





 

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