Steph Drahozal

Okay so I wrote this one back in June as well, just publishing a bit late... Graduation was very bittersweet. I was obviously sad to graduate and leave Virginia Tech, my home for the last four years, and all the friends I made there. I am going to miss not starting my days until 10 am (or so…), the $2 beers, the day drinking, the football games, the Law & Order: SVU marathons with my roommates… Graduation was also tough for me for another reason. I remember sitting in Lane Stadium in 2012 watching my brother walk out onto the field in his cap and gown. I was sitting right next to my mom and remember her telling me how happy she was to be at Chris’s graduation and all the wanted was to see me graduate, too. I told her not to worry about it, of course she would see me graduate. At the time, I really didn’t think that was going to be an issue- I thought for sure she would live that long, she was doing so well! Unfortunately, my mom was not physically there to see...

Another check off the bucket list… Skydiving! So I wrote this post right after I went skydiving and was just too lazy to publish it until now... My family is all about fun and trying new things. We had casually talked about skydiving a few times, but never made any concrete plans to do so. Last August, my cousin Melissa bought her husband a skydiving voucher for his birthday. We were all jealous until every time he tried to go it got rescheduled due to weather. Once it kept getting pushed back and pushed back, we had a brilliant idea- hey, why don’t we join him? We can do it after Steph graduates and make it a sort of graduation thing too! Graduate from college, jump out a plane 13,000 feet in the sky… Sounds about right. So we did it. Dad bought us all vouchers for Christmas (thanks, Dad!). Dad, Chris, Anna, Melissa, Tom and I all looked at our schedules and picked a weekend that we could all jump. It was actually finally happening! We hyped ourselves up (luckily not psychi...