Saturday afternoon was Parker's graduation from Florida Southern College. His graduation was held at the FP Funding Center (the old Lakeland Convention Center) where we used to attend Annual Conference and where Daryl and I both were ordained.
Parker and his roomate Eddie before the ceremony started.
Grandmommy was able to join us for the big day.
It was FSC's largest ever graduating class! And in the program Parker was recognized for graduating "summa cum laude."
Processing in.
On stage is retired Bishop Bob Fannin (who we went to England with in 2011) and the current Bishop's assistant Alex Shanks, who is a member of the FSC Board of Trustees. Bishop Fannin gave the invocation.
And here is the video of Parker's name being called and him walking across the stage.
After the ceremony it was raining outside so we took all our pictures inside the convention center.
We went to dinner as a family at one of Parker's favorites - Harry's in downtown Lakeland. Then everyone else went home and Parker and I worked on packing up his apartment. After running some furniture for storage to Grandmommy's, we came back and went to the Joinery for May Day Ice Cream.
We finished packing a little in the morning and got the cars about half loaded. Then we cleaned up and went to church at First UMC in Auburndale where the Hill family is. Parker has worshipped here while at school over the last four years. Today was youth Sunday so we got to see the whole Hill family in action. It was a wonderful service!
After church we went back and finished loading the cars just in time for Parker's check out appointment.
So for one last Lakeland treat, I took him to Lovebird Chicken for lunch.
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