Thursday, February 4, 2010

Updating my earlier post...

It as a really beautiful day today. We could hear the drip, drip, drip of the snow melting. Brittany and I just wanted to be out in it so that's what we did. All of this graduation talk makes me feel very uneasy. I guess I better get used to it huh? We searched some this afternoon for ways to make our own graduation announcements...Kodak has a program that you can do this...we created our own card. I think it will be lovely. Our school colors are pink and green...(ok, don't laugh, we are girly girls...we love pink and green) Brittany told her dance teacher a couple years ago and he got a belly laugh out of it. I can't imagine why??? Anyway...the card we chose has pink and green circles on it with a white background and a bit of brown too. It is so pretty...it is kind of exciting that we can choose our own design. The card will have one picture on the front, one on the inside and a tiny one on the back. Brittany chose two Bible verses and just like that we created our beautiful announcement. I can get more for my money this way...and we had the fun of creating it ourselves. Now, we just need to snap a couple of really good pictures which I am sure we won't have a problem doing as this is one of my daughter's favorite things to do.

Next...as we were driving around and we were talking about all the people she would like to invite I had a flash of...I don't know what...the vision of something spilling on my mom's carpet or furniture and said out loud...we can't have the party at Grammy's...she'll be a nervous wreck and then I'll be a nervous wreck and that isn't going to go so well...so...what if we check out a pavilion...it is summer after all. We drove around the adjacent town and found three to call about. Then one practically in our backyard. Which even has a fireplace...so if the weather is cool by chance...we could have a fire. To me this just feels right. We can have a picnic theme...maybe get a volleyball net and have a game going. Have some bubbles for the kids. There is a pond nearby where we can feed the ducks and geese. So...for $45 I can rent this little rustic pavilion in the woods and if things get spilled I won't have to worry. Whew! I mentioned it to Dennis this evening...he thought it a great idea too. Whew! First two decisions...Made!

3 comments:

  1. Hey Joyce!
    The Main Dish is a commercial kitchen where they offer a menu each month, of 12 entrees. You go to their kitchen, where they have about 9 industrial tables set up. According to which menu items you have chosen, they have the recipes on your work station. They have done all the chopping, mixing, etc. of the ingredients. You take the dish and actually put it together, put it in an aluminum container, wrap it, label it, and put in your cooler. When you get home, you have 12 entrees to put in your freezer.

    Each week you take out 3 entrees to fix that week. All you do is add side dishes and bread (if you want). They even tell you what sides are recommended.

    Go to www.yourmaindish.com and there is a video on there. You can see me doing a commercial for them. There are about 7 or 8 ladies giving reasons why we like the Main Dish. I look horrible because I don't smile at all! I was so nervous!

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  2. That's what we did for our daughter's graduation. We rented a pavillion and the rec. equipment. There were about 75 people there and we all just had a wonderful time. Our colors were blue and orange (Denver Bronco colors) and, yes, we got chuckles out of having school colors too!
    For her graduation announcement we went with humor. Surrounding a black & white photo of her we had these sayings: Senior Class President, Voted most likely to succeed, #1 in her class, Recipient of the Prestigious Proud Parent Award. People got a kick out of it since she was homeschooled!
    We made up a poster board with her senior pic in the center and had everyone sign it.

    A couple of months before her graduation I contacted family, good friends, her Pastor and any other mentors asking if they'd write her a letter of encouragement as she began this new segment of her life. I then compiled them into a nice notebook and had it at the picnic.

    The Lord blessed her with an absolutely perfect day.

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