Graduations

I can't believe that DH and I are old enough to have two of our nine children graduated. Scary thought:) but that is what we have. B#1 actually graduated last year and has been attending our local community college this year. During the summer he participated in a Police Cadet Academy in a town near ours so here are his graduation pictures from that. He is pursuing Law enforcement as his career and is actually working on the river as part of the Marine Patrol for our local Sheriff's Office.


B#1 with our Sheriff and another guy, not sure who he is actually.

The cake for the reception.

B#1 shaking the Sheriff's hand as he went forward for his certificate. During this academy they had the option of being pepper sprayed as part of their training. I do believe that they now have a healthy fear of using pepper spray on people without just cause. It is some nasty stuff which took B#1 a couple of days to be completely cured from.

Then last weekend we had B#2's graduation party here at our house in the backyard. She loves lavender so we went with that as our theme, using purple and white for our colors. The big purple things in the picture are our drink dispensers. I had hoped to borrow a friends pretty glass ones to hold our water and our punch but she was using them so it was time to get creative with what to use. A friend suggested covering the big orange water coolers from the church with table cloths and tying it with ribbon so that is what we did. All in all I think that worked well. We should have made more punch though as it went pretty quickly.

We were blessed to be able to borrow tables, chairs and table cloths from the church.

The girls made lavender sachets for all of the girls and ladies to take home with them. Nothing for the guys that came though, sorry.

B#4 spent the day before baking 85 cupcakes and then the day of the party filling and frosting all of them. We helped her a little. These are chocolate cupcakes with a peanut butter cup inside them with peanut butter frosting.

These are chocolate cupcakes with raspberry filling with chocolate frosting and a raspberry on top. We also had lemon cupcakes with lemon filling and vanilla frosting and the good old stand by of yellow cupcakes with chocolate frosting. They were all yummy!