More graduation pictures

These pictures are from our convocation on Friday morning.

This is me and my graduate advisor:

The graduating graduate students and a couple of professors from our department:

The graduating graduate students:

Joseph and me at a reception held by the Math Education Department:

Graduation

Well, this is about a month over due, but here it is:

Last month I graduated from Brigham Young University with a Master of Arts in Mathematics Education.

Here are many, many pictures. I don't really feel like learning how to make one of those slideshows right now - it is enough to finally get this posted - so I will just post many pictures.

Here is what the graduation program had listed for my accomplishments:

p. 14 of the Spring Commencement Exercises under the heading Master's Degrees,
Audrey Linford Hanks
BA, Brigham Young University, 2003
Major: Mathematics Education
Thesis: How Eighth-Grade Students Estimate with Fractions

Say woo! It actually all feels like a dream already (some parts of it a nightmare...), probably in part due to the fact that I spend my days busily chasing after my two boys and can't remember when my life was much else.

A "Special Treat"

So, the other day I am riding in the car with my husband and two children when Austin, almost 3, says to me, "Mommy, I have a booger," and reaches forward to "hand" it to me. I took it from him and as I was finding a tissue in which to deposit the said booger I commented, "Oh! What a special treat..." Austin replied, quite seriously, "It is not a special treat, Mommy. It is a booger."



**Updated note** It has occured to me that some of you may be concerned with the casualness with which I addressed the fact that my son was, in fact, handing me boogers - I mean, shouldn't I have at least been disgusted or mentioned something about the foul nature of that event? On the contrary, I am resigned to the fact that most children do pick their boogers, so I am actually extraordinarily pleased that he is choosing not to eat them.