A Day to Remember {Joel’s Grad}
We did it!
On Saturday, we got son number 2 all graduated. It’s still a little hard to wrap our minds around. The day turned out to be perfect weather wise, and things seemed to go without too many catastrophes.
Since I spent a few days showing you the process of decorating the school gym in an “Old England” theme for the grad banquet, I thought you’d like to see the final pictures of how it turned out.
It really was pretty with all the sparkling lights.
A corner area was set up as a place for the photographer to take family pictures with the grads.
We also were well protected…
The table centerpieces had pictures of the grads, so each family knew where to sit.
The washroom doors were also cleverly disguised to fit the theme.
One of the grads and her dad built a beautiful phone booth to add some interest to the space.
I thought it turned out beautiful.
The punch table was a busy place throughout the (long!) evening…
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I don’t know about you, but I can’t remember a single thing the speaker talked about at my own graduation. But, I found myself learning something very important at Joel’s. The speaker was one of our boys’ favorite teachers.
“Be people of extremes,” he said.
“Be hot or cold.”
He went on to explain that “hot” is like a soothing, healing hot springs and “cold” is like a fresh, clear, refreshing mountain spring.
May our words and actions be healing or refreshing…
I love that…
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Mr. Bird was definitely one of my favorite teachers too!!
I love how you are perfectly sandwiched between your boys…Everything looked lovely… Congratulations to all. We have graduated 2 and have 1 more to go in 2015.
So fun! I’ve been on vaca so missed the last few posts, but will go remedy that 🙂 Congrats on the graduation of your second son! I’ve managed 4 so far, 2 left to go….
And to think I was feeling weepy earlier thinking about my oldest finishing Kindergarten this year. It just goes so fast! Congrats on your son’s grad:)
I know that this is about Joel but let’s talk about you in that dress and necklace!! Gorgeous! I just wish I could see the shoes 🙂