Ryan Passed !!

Ryan defended his thesis on Thursday.  He has been working 12 - 16 hour days for the last 2 months to finish up everything he needed to do and fix the many problems that somehow happened to pop up at the last minute.  I was very anxious for his thesis defense to go well and was surprised by how nauseous I was the whole morning before.  I can only image how he felt.  Ryan's parents and I went and watched him defend.  I wanted to get a picture of him standing up at the front of the room all cute in his suit, but everyone showed up early, and I didn't think it would be very professional to take a picture in the middle of his defense.  He did a wonderful job.  His graduate adviser got up and talked about how wonderful of a student Ryan has been, and said that he worked harder than any other masters student he has had.  After about an hour of asking Ryan questions after the defense, they decided that he passed!  Yay!  Ryan has a few paragraphs and figures to change in his thesis but other than that he's done.  Our whole family is so happy.  I think Lucas is in heaven with how much time he's spent with his dad over the last day and a half.  In a few short weeks everything will be turned in and Ryan will have is Masters degree.  I couldn't be more proud of everything that he has done and how hard he's worked.