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!