Jordan Tampien; J.D., M.B.A.

Well, it's official. Jordan graduated from Gonzaga Law School and Business School this weekend! He is now a Juris Doctor (aka: lawyer) and has his Masters in Business... what a stud!! I am so, so proud of him for working so hard for the last three years and achieving two very sought after degrees.

Our weekend consisted of numerous graduation festivities and I'm sure there are even more to come. :) To kick things off, the Law School put on a Boat Cruise on Coeur d'Alene Lake on Thursday. We rode out to CDA on legit yellow school buses. Pretty classy. ;)

We had an AMAZING evening for a boat cruise on the lake -- it was sunny and absolutely beautiful! Although we had to laugh because all the girls' hair was completely windblown on top of the boat. Finally Breanne, Katie, and I gave in and tried to make a joke of it. Ha! These ladies are my favorite law school wives... we agreed we are probably just as excited as our husbands that they are graduating! :)

And their husbands, Nick and Shamus, are Jordan's best friends from law school.

Me and Bre finding any possible photo op on the boat. :) Bre is a photo enthusiast too and we've actually taken a couple photog classes together! We get along so well and it has been so nice to have someone who's been able to relate to the last three years of my life!!

Pretty view on top of the boat...

The Law School Graduation ceremony was at 9:15 on Saturday morning -- kind of early for a graduation, right?! It actually was a really nice ceremony though... I didn't even pull out my phone and play games. ;) They had bagpipes playing when the graduates entered and exited the arena, which was really neat, and all of the speakers were actually really engaging.

A big day for both of us!

Jordan and his parents, Brenda and Russ.

Jordan and four of his six siblings. From left to right: Joel, Jordan, Joseph, Joelle, and Johanna. For those of you who might not know, all of Jordan's siblings have a name that starts with the letters "Jo-". :)

Jordan in a Murphy sandwich... my parents, grandparents, and Lorna.

Best buds, Jordan and Shamus... no longer law students! The other day Jordan said, "Well, if nothing else comes of law school, at least I met Shamus." :) I know the O'Dohertys are going to be in our lives for a long time!

Love this picture of my man...

Jord and I were chatting a couple days ago about how excited we both were for him to be done being a student... and then all of a sudden we were like, "Uhhh... so now what?!" Which is the million dollar question these days. :) We are definitely in a transition period -- Jordan still has two more months of intense studying left because he is taking the Bar Exam at the end of July. Which, by the way, is a 20 hour written test over three days. Gross. Kind of a bummer, but it's one last hoop he has to jump through. By the time that's over, he'll hopefully have a job lined up and it will hopefully be in Spokane. But there are no guarantees in this economy! We are keeping our fingers crossed!! Please keep us in your prayers as Jordan studies for this huge monster of a test and tries to find a job.

We had a big BBQ at Jordan's parents' house after graduation, which was a ton of fun. Thank you to everyone who was able to come -- it meant a lot to both of us!

To see all the pictures from Jordan's graduation weekend, click here.

On to the next adventure... whatever that may be! :)