Hats Off

Peter graduated from high school yesterday! Bryan was the official photographer for our family and his pictures are still uploading, so here are the few that I have.

In southern California you see lots of graduation leis. Apparently this is not a Pennsylvania tradition. We made the four (one carnation, two candy, one cash) that Peter is wearing and I had to ask the teachers checking the students in for graduation if he was allowed to wear them. (If they said no I didn't want them getting tossed, so I walked up with him in case I had to carry them off.) They had no idea and said yes because there was no one there with more authority to tell them no. With his height, his long hair, and his leis, he was always easy to spot on the field.

Bryan took this picture and then texted it to me, so I didn't have to wait for the mass image upload to get it. The cash lei was initially too short, so I carried it into the stadium after he lined up with his class. Bryan, being the hero that he is, figured out how to lengthen it so it looked like a lei and not an Elizabethan stiff collar. He left our seats and delivered it to Peter just before the graduates headed into the school to arrange themselves alphabetically.

This is the rest of us while Bryan made his delivery. It was sooooooo hot. We were all dripping sweat.

Here's the pre-graduation field.

Topher mostly did well sitting through the two hour graduation (there were five musical numbers and at least five speakers), but he definitely got antsy. We took a few pictures with my phone to keep him engaged.

My sister-in-law Falisha sent me this screenshot of Peter after his name was called. We had family in California, Idaho, Utah, Virginia, and Maryland that tuned into the livestream to watch him graduate. There may have been more that watched, those are the ones that I know of. It was cool that family could be there virtually.

The graduates were allowed to tastefully decorate their hats. This is what Peter put on his. Yesterday he was a senior and today he's a freshman again. He's off to BYU in August!

Congratulations, Peter!