GRADUATION

Chris And Rachelle

I have been meaning to blog about my graduation and Rachelle's been on me to get this up for a couple of weeks now. So I'm finally getting around to it. I graduated from the U of U on Thursday May 1st. It is fantastic to be done! Except for the job hunt which ensues. My convocation was held with the College of Health, which also saw graduates from Physical and Ocupational Therapy, Parks & Recreation, Speech Language Pathology, Nutrition, & Health Promotion/Education areas. My degree is Exercise and Sports Science with a minor in Nutrition. There were 4 available areas of emphasis in the ESS department an mine was simply Exercise Science. Overall graduation was what you'd expect. The speakers were pretty good in that they didn't go too long (although the speaker representing those receiving graduate degree's was fairly full of himself and got a bit annoying). The worst part of the whole thing was waiting through the people receiving their graduate degrees because they had to be given their hood and have the title of their thesis read. Then, as the professors started to lead the procession out of the arena, they PA system started to play "We are Family" by Sister Sledge and the whole place turned into a party. After we got out of the arena, I got a phone call from Rachelle asking where I was so I could meet up with the family for some pictures before we went to dinner. I asked where she was and she told me that she was at the door we came in at (which was the North entrance). I asked her if she was sure, and if she could see a parking lot in front of her (which would have meant that she was at the West entrance where the graduates were coming out of the building. She said no, so I went to the North entrance and sure enough, she was no where to be found. So as I was walking back to the West entrance, my brother called me asking where I was. Right about then, I saw them all standing right in front of the West entrance as I expected they might be. The worst part of the whole thing, was that PK had his little daughter Natalie wearing a BYU onesie under her dress, so that when I tried to take a picture with them, he'd lift up her dress to show the BYU logo. For that, I must destroy him. Anyway, after some pictures, we went down to the Gateway Mall and had dinner at the California Pizza Kitchen. When we got there and asked about the wait for 12 of us, we were told it would be about a hour if we wanted to sit at one table, or about 30 minutes to be split up. We decided to wait for one table and somehow my mom worked her Mele family magic and got us seated in about 15 minutes.

Chris And Lynsey


So now that I am done, the challenge becomes finding a job. And so far, no go. I'm realizing that either the job will pay good but the pay won't be stable month to month (as is the case if I were to become a personal trainer), the pay is good but there are no available benefits (as is the case with many of the jobs I've considered), or the pay isn't great but benefits are available. And we're trying to find either something I can do from home so I can watch Avery and rachelle can keep her job, or something where I can match rachelle's current salary and get benefits so that rachelle can either stay home or get part time work. If we find something were rachelle's not working, we'll most likely be moving back to Utah County. Otherwise we'll be staying up here in Ogden so rachelle can keep her job up here. Wish me luck in finding something soon. Because our little guy is coming and he's not going to wait.

Leiter Family