Grace is a senior this year and we celebrated her graduation with a party earlier this month at our town hall.
Here are a few pictures from the the event.
Behind the scenes:
We (Mom, Emily, Grace, and Laura) made most of the food for this. Therefore the day before was a busy day in the kitchen!
I didn't take many pictures since my hands were dirty most of the time, but here are a few.
Cookies; we made 5 different kinds, all of them were yummy! We made them some earlier in the week and then all these on Wednesday. We ended up with lots left over, but we were okay with that. Cookies freeze well, and we have been enjoying them ever since.
Potato salad: 24 cups of diced potatoes later....
We even made our own barbecue sauce- it turned out great!
The Party!
Our cousin-in-law Ashley did the flower arranging for us!
The tables set up and ready
The food all ready to go!
Hot BBQ chicken & pork sandwiches, veggies, and four kinds of salad. Delicious!
Ice cream and cookies for dessert.
Some hungry boys who were getting tired of being told that they couldn't eat yet....
Grace and her picture display
We did a brief program in the middle of the afternoon. We played a couple songs and Dad and Mom gave Grace her diploma and tassel.
She's worked hard to earn that diploma!
Since writing personalized songs for special occasions is becoming a tradition in our family, we wrote a song for Grace: (Well okay, we take a familiar tune and write new words to it.) It was tricky to find time to do this when Grace wasn't around. But it turned out pretty good. We used the folk tune Bill Groghan's Goat.
Here is the first verse:
There is a girl, Her name is Grace
She's read every book, that's on our place
She plays the piano, and the fiddle too.
But farming is, what she likes to do!
And there were 4 more verses. :)
It was a fun day, with nice weather. It was fun to see and visit with friends, neighbors and relatives.
Happy Graduation Grace! Congratulations!
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