Graduation?! Almost not!!

So anyone who knows my sister really well, knows the trauma of her graduation. But for those of you who don't, I'll fill you in!!! Anyway, my sister was involved in a lot of sports and dance programs and stuff. The school spends a fortune on these things and asks the parents of the students or the students themselves to pay for camps, uniforms, and other expenses. Breanna and my parent talked to the Athletic director and Nana's dance teacher about the expenses that she owed. They worked out a deal that erased her past debt and she just needed to turn in current stuff. So Nana got busy and did fund raisers and helped out her dance teacher cleaning the studio and all sorts of things. Nana went to go check what she owed at the beginning of March because if it wasn't all paid off by the end of May, they wouldn't let her walk. When she went to check, they told her she didn't owe anything. She was ecstatic because she still thought she owed a lot. If it sounds too good to be true it usually is. At the beginning of May the Vice Principal came back and said that Breanna owed the school $1000 and she needed it by the end of the month to be able to walk. Nana was devastated. She did not want to be the only Hutchings to walk. Well, she didn't have the money and mom and dad didn't have the money, so Mom and Dad went to talk to the school. They weren't trying to get out of paying, just trying to work out options that would allow Nana to walk and the payment to be postponed!! They also wanted to find out what had changed since March when they told Nana she didn't owe anything. Nana had received a scholarship that could pay it off, but she couldn't get her scholarship until she had her transcripts submitted to BYU and BYU sending a report to the agency that gave her the scholarship saying she was enrolled in school. But BYU wouldn't send that until she paid her first month's rent in July (even though she wasn't going to school until September). So that was another almost $700 she had to come up with. It was crazy. When mom and dad asked if they could make as many payments as they could until the end of May and then pay the rest during the summer when Nana had a job, the Principal said No!! The Athletic director even came back and said that he never excused her from past debts. Nana had also earned over $300 in a fundraiser and the cheerleading coach said she never received it. So the principal pretty much accused Nana of stealing that money!! They were soo rude and mom said she almost hit the principal. Luckily, dad works in business and kept a level head on his shoulder. They sucked it up and thus began the month of pulling resources. Nana called everyone she could think of to ask for loans, offer babysitting services or any other service for pay, putting the word out at schools and through the places of businesses that we worked at, garage sales, and car washes. Most people were outraged, but there were the few that were mad at us. Mom got in trouble at her school for putting a flyer in all the teachers boxes for a donation car wash we had to raise the money. The worst part was yet to come though. Nana put up flyers on bulletin boards around her school to advertise for the car wash. Well, Nana got pulled out of class to go to the Principal's office. The principal said she had to take all the flyers down because "it made the school look bad" (mind you she didn't say anything mean about the school on these flyers). Then to top it off, a security guard escorted her around campus like a criminal to make sure she took down all the flyers, even when classes let out and kids were walking past her. Poor Nana was mortified and just bawled. We really think that the school was doing this because they had recently had a registrar who embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars out of the school. It was HORRIBLE!! The garage sale was fruitful though, as well as the car wash. There were the occasional cars that passed by and screamed "Pay your f%@*!&# bills" and one hostile person call the place where we were holding the car wash telling him how wrong it was that we were allowed to hold the car wash for the purpose of helping my little sister graduate at his business. To the business owners credit he defended us and told us we were welcome to have a car wash at his business whenever we wanted. We were truly blessed to have so many people pull through for us. And WE MADE IT!! She was able to pay off her debts and got to walk with her class. It made it that much more special for her because of all the struggle and sacrifice it took. It was also neat because my 2 sisters from AZ and my sisters 4 kids came to the graduation!!! We were all soo happy to go!! And Nana looked soo cute and was soo happy!! It was all worth it!!Nana is the blonde with the yellow sash turned toward the camera in the front left corner. Sorry my camera went fuzzy.

Nana the Flasher!!

We are crazy siblings. But we do have fun!!

Nana with the 'rents.

The whole gang that came.

Nana with her niece and nephews.

We had to hold the graduate up in our arms!! It's the crazy thing to do!!

The graduation dinner at BJ's. Mmmm. Pizookies!!

More eating fun.

My free meal because they gave my first one to someone else so I didn't get my meal for like 20 minutes. Cara got hers for free too when they didn't tell her that they ran out of broccoli so they had to run to store. Oops!! Yay for free meals!!