Graduation Party

We had Jonathan's graduation party yesterday and it was great! I was a bit flustered at first because the ceremony went 2 hours long and was supposed to go an hour and a half at the most! It stressed me out a bit to be one of the last people to get to my own party!

So now that I got that out, on to the party stuff....

Here are the tables. I wanted the "chalk board" look for the tables so I covered the tops with black paper and put chalk on each table for people to leave messages.

The centerpieces were soup cans filled with sand. Pencils were hot glued to the can, then I scrunched some notebook paper down in there and put the sign in on a skewer. I covered the rubberbands holding the pencils in place with black tulle. Then put blue and red paper shreds around it.

Here are the favor bags that were filled with Smarties and Air Heads.

The tag read:

"For all of you AIRHEADS

Who don't have a clue,

Who've perused the thesis

And are quite baffled too,

Find enclosed with our love

Some SMARTIES to chew.

You may even get a Diploma or two!"

I didn't get a picture of all the food before people dug in (mainly because I was running around like a crazy person) but I had to get pictures of the food name signs.

We had Centroid Caesar Wraps & Chain Rule Chargrilled Wraps

Chebychev Chicken Salad Sandwiches

Notation Nuggets, Fractional Fruit, Chaotic Attractor Chips, Diff Eq Drinks

The finished product - graduation cap cookies!

My mom made the stand for me. It was a block of styrofoam then balsa wood around the sides. I tied tulle around it to help it stay together. The black beads were a fun new find! Look here for more info.

I was so pleased with how everything came together! I am so appreciative to my family for all the help setting up!!!! And all the people who stepped up and helped do last minute things after we got there (you know who you are!) My husband was so sweet through all the planning too. :) He was very grateful for all the hard work I'd put in to my party... I mean HIS party!

Congrats to Dr. Jonathan Mitchell!!!!

We're so proud of you!!!!

Now on to my next big project.... moving to Abilene!

T - 2 Days

One of the things I'll be making for the graduation party is graduation cap cookies. I was originally going to do this from Bakerella....

Then I saw this in one of my cookie cookbooks and decided to switch because Jonathan's favorite dessert is cookies...

But I was told by my cookie-loving husband that this one was TOO much cookie! Can you believe it? So I decided to morph the two ideas together.

This is a picture of the pieces ready to be assembled...

When I was playing around with option #2 I didn't like the icing look (mainly because I'm a perfectionist and couldn't get the icing smooth enough!). So on my final product, I dyed the cookie dough red so I didn't have to ice anything! And baking the "bottoms" of the caps in cupcake papers it made the ridged look like the Reeses! I was very pleased! So I made all 50 of these a week or so ago and froze them so I would just have to assemble. Now that they are thawing on my counter I'm a little nervous... I'm just hoping they don't sag or break and then we will have to make 50 more tomorrow night before the party! ugh!!!

Oh and I got a few pics of my little helper....

Just precious if I do say so myself! :) He didn't really help I just wanted to post some pictures!

I'll post the finished product soon!!

Gearing up!

What a crazy weekend we just had!! We went to Palestine Friday to celebrate Mother's Day with my mom, then drove to Conroe on Saturday to celebrate Cheyenne's 4th birthday, then back to Palestine, then drove to Carrollton today for our nephew Ben's baby dedication. Now we are finally back home and I got to celebrate Mother's Day with my baby boy and some Pei Wei! :)

Now that we're settling back in I'm getting geared up for Jonathan's graduation party this Saturday! I can't believe the day has finally come! I remember when he started this program and seeming like we would never move on to the next chapter! :) I'm so proud of him and all he's accomplished. I envy his determination and drive.

So I think I'm about ready for the party and wanted to show you the disaster (aka Party Prep Room).

Stay tuned for the final product!

Math Themed Graduation Party Preview

So I think I have everything ready to go for next weekend which is good because we have a crazy schedule ahead of us! Just wanted to show you a preview of the centerpieces...

Jonathan helped me with the equations (of course!) and I have tables 1-8. Can't wait to show you more but you'll just have to come back later!