April & May are notoriously busy months for our household, and this year was no exception. This year we had a high school senior- JS graduated last Friday, May 16. In the months leading up to grad I was frantically working on his scrapbook to get it caught up and spring cleaning our house. There were also clothes and gifts to shop for and dresses to sew, food to make and invitations to mail, senior pictures to order and grad-planning drama to endure, flowerbeds to mulch and a thousand other details to attend. The last month has been so scheduled that now that it's behind us, it feels strange to not have anything pressing on the agenda for today.
Here are some pictures of the occasion:
I love this picture of JS decorating his gift table. His teacher's sons didn't pay the slightest bit of attention to the girls' tables with all the "fluff" but they were 'all over' his decor.
JS knew what he wanted- he had it all planned and did all the decorating himself -all I did was stand and watch. It was truly one-of-a-kind, light on the senior theme, heavy on the hunting theme, but so totally JS. (I mean, who else has a bill cap to hold cards on their gift table?!)
My brother gave the commencement address.
My entire family (minus 1 nephew) attended from out-of-state, which was a real honor.
JS's senior speech... graduation = D.O.N.E. Freedom!!
School didn't come easy for this one and he worked hard for a diploma. He would've given up and dropped out if we had allowed it, but we're proud of him for persevering.
It was making me a little nervous when 2 hours before grad the senior speech was not written. For a number of years he was adamant that he is not giving a speech if he graduates, but he persevered through this too, with his own unique flair.
Take note of the shirt because he & I spent hours shopping for it. This one has definite opinions on clothes!
AMS Class of '14 with their teacher
One of us didn't get the memo to wear a coordinating color.
The special young lady who makes it all worthwhile.
(And was quite brave to come meet the whole family.)
And don't forget gifts... gifts make it worthwhile.
He was hoping to get enough cash to invest in a Matthews bow.
Thanks to generous friends & family, he did.
My family stayed at a local cabin for the weekend.
Everyone helped with food, which greatly lightened the load for me.
We took a little time Saturday afternoon to go to the school picnic.
The High School guys always play softball against their dads;
this was JS & R's last year to play in the "big game" so we didn't want to miss it.
They are usually pretty evenly matched; this year the HS guys won by 1 point.
My youngest brother was feeding a coon out of his hand here.
(No it did not have rabies; it had obviously been fed before and was very careful about not biting.)
Love my family!
Thanks for coming, y'all. It's always sweet when we're not the ones doing the driving.
Two down, one to go. A's graduation is 3 year away.
There is talk of renting this cabin and the whole family coming again.
We have no objections.
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