Graduation Highlights

By Becca

It's been a little crazy these past two weeks, consisting of:

Taking the GED test ( I passed, Yay!)

Preparing for the graduation party

Getting the house ready for company

Writing my graduation speech

Then the festivities began, and as fun as the weekend was; it left us rather tired out. 

With Memorial weekend, the greenhouse where I work was very busy, 

and today is the first chance I've had to sit down and really focus on this post.

There are a few things that deserve their own post:

Like my Great Great Grandmother's tea cup,

 the pennant banner I made for the party,

and this fantastic summer project!

For right now I'll try to do a brief overview of our weekend celebrations.
Friday we had a lovely dinner with our family and had a bit of a ceremony.
Dad and I read our speeches and I received my diploma.

Did I mention that we ate in a bank vault?  :)

Then we went to my favorite park and took more pictures.

Thanks Aunt Martha!

Isn't that such a sweet little cottage? 

No one lives in it, it's just a decoration.

Beth and I reenacted a picture that was taken in this park 14 years ago.

It's not exactly the same, but we tried to get the same "feel" :)

Saturday afternoon was filled with family, friends, food, and fun!

 The decorations were quite similar to Beth's,
 for the exception of 36 balloons, a different banner and my typewriter :)
(Can't seem to find a picture of the balloons)

The menu was macaroni salad, pigs-in-a-blanket, scotch-a-roos, 

lemon bars, fruit cups, root-beer and orange floats.  

That's a lot of food! Anyone want a month's worth of leftovers?

And there were lots of games indoor and out~ lawn darts, ladder golf and Mom made a giant version of "KerPlunk".

There were a few rounds of Spoons,  Pit,  Apples to Apples, 

Urban Myth and UpWords played throughout the afternoon.  

 I think our tire-swing got a pretty good work out :)

Needless to say, it was a wonderful day :)

I hope everyone else had a good time too!

Now my next task is writing thank-you notes, I suppose that's a good way to spend a rainy afternoon. 

Thank you Dad and Mom for giving me a great education and party! :)

Thank you to everyone who helped set things up, made us breakfast, sent cards and gifts and came to celebrate with us!