Class of 2012

So in my last piece on here I wrote about my sister graduating but hadn't gotten to the best part of the day - the party! (Or open house if you'd rather go that route)

 

We started the morning with heading off to church and meeting up with the rest of the family - All of my immediate family, except for my other little sister who decided to be a poop and refuse to show up, both sets of grandparents and then my aunt and uncle who live about 2 hours away.

 My grandparents on my dad's side and his oldest sister and her hubby met us early to attend church with us, major kudos to them because it takes about 2 hours for them to get here and church starts around 1030... not that bad of a drive and really not that early I guess, but on a Sunday morning not really something I'd want to do! The other set of grandparents met us out at the Alerus for the graduation ceremony directly after church.

Graduation went fairly quick. They had the varsity jazz band playing while everyone was coming in. Mrs. Aleshire never disappoints when it comes to good music for stuff like this, one of the best band directors/teachers I think most of the high schoolers in the city ever had. The graduates only half filled the allotted area this year, not sure if that was due to them not making it, or just a much smaller class then I remember having

After graduation it was a race
 out to the parents to get everything ready for the open house. BBQ pulled pork, cookie salad, fruit and veggies and then of course, cupcakes! Oh, and I printed out awesome little stickers for the bottom of tons of kisses, but I didn't do the sticking of the stickers. I'm sure that was tons of fun I didn't miss out on! The weather held up beautifully and we only had a few slight mistings, but nothing to make anyone want to leave or go inside. Over all I think it went pretty well.

On a different note - we saved a ton my making almost everything on our own. We did all our own cooking and even baked and decorated the cupcakes on our own - actually, I didn't, mom and the others at home did. The cake stands were an idea mom found on, take a guess, Pinterest! We of course manipulated them a little to fit our theme and keep it super cheap. Nothing but cardboard cake boards, cans of peas, scrap book paper, ribbon, hot glue and a little spray adhesive! Not bad and I think they turned out amazing! The kisses was also my mom's idea, I just happen to be lucky enough to work somewhere that I have the capabilities of printing out mass quantities of them very quickly. Pink lemonade in super cute dispensers borrowed from a friend topped off the whole look!