He is done (almost)

My oldest son is done with college at Central Washington University. Saturday he graduated with a major in information technology and administrative management with a specialization in web design and database management.
He has a minor in communication and coaching. He just has to take 2 classes over from his freshman year when he got so sick and had to come home for a while.
Colby finished high school at Kentlake High School in Covington Wa and got accepted to CWU in Ellensburg Wa on a track scholarship. I was so excited to have him enter this next phase of his life.
School began for him in September and in December of that year our family left him behind in Wa and we moved to Utah.I had never not seen him run in his races so that was one of the hardest things about having him so far.  Luckily for me, my other son, Jake is running for UVU and I love, love, love to go and watch him run.
We traveled to Boise Idaho to watch Colby run indoor track that first year and I remember when I saw him I just cried. I was afraid to go over and talk to him as he was gathered around with his friends.  I just grabbed  my husbands arm and said there he is. Of course if you know Colby you know that he has always been so nice to me and he thought I was dumb and said mom come on over.  This is a picture of him as a freshman at that track meet.

Through the years we have welcomed him home by air and by car for the holidays and for summer. He made the holidays brighter and the summers more relaxed for us by bringing friends and his cute dog and telling us the funniest stories.
While he was a freshman he got really sick and he had to drop out for one semester and come here and get better. It is because of that illness that he is not quite done with his schooling and is doing summer school. He's just got to finish those 2 classes he dropped as a freshman...but a senior taking freshman classes should be easy, right?
This is him going back for his last year.

It has taken him 5 years to get this education and he has worked so hard, lived on his own away from family and really achieved alot. He has delivered phone books, refereed so many basketball games, given tours of the campus and pretty much anything asked of him to make money and pay his way.  We have sent him care packages, cards, money and grandparents have taken him to lunch and visited with him on their way through and then called and given me a full report! Once my sister ordered him pizza and because of modern technology she "watched them make it and deliver it" via the computer. He loved that.
We can hardly wait for him to get here and be done with school.  (6 more weeks)