Michelle’s Graduation

Our Granddaughter, Elizabeth Michelle Reay graduated from The University of Texas at Austin on May 20, 2011. This is the cute graduation invitation she sent out.

Commencement for the College of Education was held at Gregory Gymnasium on the UT campus. Inside Gregory Gym looks just like it did the last time I was there the first time I registered for classes in the Fall of 1956 and for my for my last time to register in the Fall of 1971. I was a very slow learner.

The Commencement speaker was Mack Brown who is the Head Football Coach at UT. He gave a very inspiring talk and gave incite to some of the things he experienced as a new graduate looking for a job.

We didn’t get a picture of Michelle crossing the stage but her father did. She graduated with High Honors and we are very proud of her.

Her father presented her with an absolutely beautiful cake that was decorated perfect for the occasion. And it tasted good too.

Here she is cutting the cake. I can’t wait to see her cut her wedding cake in a year and a half.

We made her put her cap and gown back on to get pictures with family. Here she is with her Grandma Doris and Papa Bob.

Here she is with her Grammie and Papa Wayne/

And here she is with her mother, Nola, her father, Tom, and her brother, Matt.

Here she is with her fiancée, Michael.

And this is her cousin, Cassandra, who is Catherine’s daughter. Catherine is the one who went to LV with us last month.

Dee’s sister, Elaine, presented Michelle with a hat and scarf that her great grandmother had crocheted especially for her.

I goofed and didn’t get a picture of Elaine, Catherine, and Cassandra with Michelle.

Here is a picture of Michelle with the rifle that her Papa Wayne loaned her. It was Wayne’s dad’s rifle so it will have to be passed down on loan to family or revert back to the Stamper family.

We have less than two weeks until we go to Waller for Matt’s graduation. This is a busy time for us.