Monday, May 31, 2010

Senior Banquet 2010

A few years ago I got the idea that we needed to have a formal banquet honoring the graduating seniors at our church.  Each year the speakers are the pastor and the Sunday school teacher of the graduates.  Our teens classes are split by gender...so if all the seniors are guys then it is the Teen Guys teacher....if we have gals and guys graduating then we have both teachers and the pastor.  Every year we come up with a theme and deocorate around it.  This year we decided to build "chuppahs" over the tables.  This was done with hooks holding gossemer over the tables.  If you need directions for this email me and I will do my best to describe it to you :)

Area where the speakers spoke.
Wall of Honor :)  I made  "polaroids" in photoshop of the seniors and printed them on 16x20 formats.  We attached a sharpie marker for their friends to sign on the polariods.
Looking through this table setting your can see the "photo back drop"  we took a 10x20 white backdrop and stapled it to the wall next we stapled strips of black gossemer over it and gathered it in the middle for a jaquard pattern.  The weights holding the ballons were cans of coke in black tissue wrapping.
This amazing cake was made by a lady in the church wrapped with ribbon and adorned with fresh roses.

The grape tree--about 30"tall was made by the pastors wife.  No I dont think anyone counted the grapes :(
The table setting was inspired by Martha Stewarts wedding site.  The punch was a kool aid punch...secret recipe of the pastors wife...if I ever get it I will share it with you!  It is indeed the best ever!!

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Saunder Springs

our new favorite swimming place!!

Friday, May 28, 2010

On My Way!!


The numbers on my scales have quit going down today!! {AGAIN!} So I bought a new scale :) and set a walking goal! I have decided to walk the distance from my house to the White House {distance according to Mapquest :)} 631 miles!! Just got off the treadmill with a start of 1.2 miles in 17:56 mins.

I will be posting the updates in my top bar if you would like to watch my journey!

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Thank You, Sir Ken Robinson

Can not be better said! Thank you Sir Ken Robinson!!


Saturday, May 15, 2010

Homeschooling!

Wow! Did I ever really think it would be me?! Uh not really. But here we are! trying to figure out how and where to start. So come along and follow me on our journey :)