The shower was so beautiful this past Sunday. The food was as wonderful as the company. Amanda received wonderful gifts for her new home and memories were created with the scrapbook pages everyone made. I was excited about the idea, but the finished product was breathtaking. If guests did not have pictures to use, we had cameras and printers to take them right there. I was amazed at how talented everyone was. I posted my page, but after seeing everyone else's, I think I have some room for improvement. I spent several days working on shower gifts and decorations and Amanda's mom spent weeks. She had the creative ideas, I was just a grunt worker. I seemed to be missing that creativity gene. We gathered recipe cards, advice cards, and scrapbook pages from all the guests. All the table decorations were given out as gifts for the guests. There were fresh flower arrangements, votive candles, candy bags, and tea cups filed with flowers. Teresa made a cake out of towels and a Newlywed Survival Kit. It was a fun day. Everyone pitched in for the food, set up, and clean up. Now I am excited for the wedding. I still need to find a dress!
The last picture I posted was Cheri and Christina at their new home this fall, Adrian College. Simone (Christina's mom) and I took the girls up there today to look around. After all the college visits we took the girls on, they went to Adrian on their own and we had not seen it yet. We even found a nice dorm manager to let us in the dorms and she even gave us a tour. We missed the bookstore though. It closed at 2 PM so I told the girls we would take another trip up there just to buy some spiritwear in a couple of weeks.
Things are flying by this summer. I leave tomorrow for my Yearbook conference for 2 days, then Seattle Friday for 6 days, then Cheri's party the 12th, the wedding August 7th, then Cheri is off to Adrian August 16th. I feel like I'm running and having trouble keeping up. I'm kinda glad I don't have too much time to stop and think about how much my life is changing. Shane (Cheri's boyfriend) just brought me a video of Cheri that his aunt made us. We were watching it and what memories! There has to be several hundred pictures on it and it is all to music that makes me cry without the photos. I'll have it running at the graduation party. It is precious.
THE RAMIREZ, ANDERSON, AND DEFALCO FAMILY - WE LOVE FAMILY, FRIENDS, FOOD, FUN, AND FUR!!!
Monday, June 29, 2009
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
2009 Graduation - Cheri is an alumni - now the fun starts!
We had a very busy weekend! Saturday we went to Lindsay's (Amanda's sister) grad party first. We then headed to my nieces' party (Mary and Rachel) up in Swartz Creek. I got to see my nephew, Terry, for the first time in many many years. Then we headed down to Breann's party and I saw her mom for the first time in like 10 years. Cheri and Breann went to pre-school together at 3 years old and her mom and I were best friends for years. She lives in Arizona now so it was a treat to see Lori. We ended the night by going to Looney's to watch the Red Wings win against the Penguins (Go Wings!!!).
Sunday was graduation day. We had a rough morning because Cheri was missing her Dad on this special day. I had to be at Savage Hall at 10:30 to check in the grads and practice for the ceremony (I read all the girls' names). The seniors got there around 11 and it was very busy for the next couple of hours. Graduation was beautiful. We had 460 seniors and Sarah and I got them all announced in an hour and a half. That includes speakers too. After many pictures we headed to Outback to celebrate Cheri's graduation. I did my fair share of crying this day. I cried when I announced Cheri's name during practice (I didn't during the real thing - thank God!), then when the graduates walked in, and again when they walked out and I hugged most of the ones I have been close to over the years. I love these kids.
Sunday night was the Senior Send Off at the UT rec center. It started at 10:30 with check in at the school and then 5 buses took the kids to UT. We had 208 seniors attend. The night was filled with basketball, volleyball, swimming, eating, picture taking, and a million other games going on. We had the fire alarms go off and needed to evacuate 208 kids and 20+ parents. I saw smoke and was worried. The staff threw me out because I was running around checking to make sure all the kids were out. Once we were out, the police and fire department went in and we found out it was the DJ's smoke machine that set off the alarm and caused the smoke. Oh well, the kids will have a story to tell about the evening. The buses came back at 5:30 in the morning to take the kids home. I was exhausted and they gave me the day off work Monday so I slept until noon and am still trying to catch up on my sleep. Oh yea, I cried when I put the kids on the buses and I went on each bus and told the kids I loved them and they better come back and visit me.
All in all it was a great weekend and will be a treasured memory for the rest of my life and hopefully the kids too. My seniors are now gone and Cheri is getting ready to move to Adrian college in August. Now we get to concentrate on Clint and Amanda's wedding. We will be having Cheri's grad party on July 12th, so if you can make it you are invited. The busy summer will make the sorrow of losing Charlie's little Jovie girl a bit easier to handle. She will be on my mind though and I am sure she will be on the rest of the family's too. She is now our little angel in heaven with her grandpa, my dad, and my grandparents.
I will be out of school tomorrow (Wednesday the 10th) and then the wedding shower is the 28th. Seattle on the 3rd of July, grad party on the 12th, wedding on the 7th of August, Cheri to college on the 16th. I am hanging on and ready to enjoy the ride. Hopefully, I will get some R&R somewhere in there this summer.
Grad pics below -
Sunday was graduation day. We had a rough morning because Cheri was missing her Dad on this special day. I had to be at Savage Hall at 10:30 to check in the grads and practice for the ceremony (I read all the girls' names). The seniors got there around 11 and it was very busy for the next couple of hours. Graduation was beautiful. We had 460 seniors and Sarah and I got them all announced in an hour and a half. That includes speakers too. After many pictures we headed to Outback to celebrate Cheri's graduation. I did my fair share of crying this day. I cried when I announced Cheri's name during practice (I didn't during the real thing - thank God!), then when the graduates walked in, and again when they walked out and I hugged most of the ones I have been close to over the years. I love these kids.
Sunday night was the Senior Send Off at the UT rec center. It started at 10:30 with check in at the school and then 5 buses took the kids to UT. We had 208 seniors attend. The night was filled with basketball, volleyball, swimming, eating, picture taking, and a million other games going on. We had the fire alarms go off and needed to evacuate 208 kids and 20+ parents. I saw smoke and was worried. The staff threw me out because I was running around checking to make sure all the kids were out. Once we were out, the police and fire department went in and we found out it was the DJ's smoke machine that set off the alarm and caused the smoke. Oh well, the kids will have a story to tell about the evening. The buses came back at 5:30 in the morning to take the kids home. I was exhausted and they gave me the day off work Monday so I slept until noon and am still trying to catch up on my sleep. Oh yea, I cried when I put the kids on the buses and I went on each bus and told the kids I loved them and they better come back and visit me.
All in all it was a great weekend and will be a treasured memory for the rest of my life and hopefully the kids too. My seniors are now gone and Cheri is getting ready to move to Adrian college in August. Now we get to concentrate on Clint and Amanda's wedding. We will be having Cheri's grad party on July 12th, so if you can make it you are invited. The busy summer will make the sorrow of losing Charlie's little Jovie girl a bit easier to handle. She will be on my mind though and I am sure she will be on the rest of the family's too. She is now our little angel in heaven with her grandpa, my dad, and my grandparents.
I will be out of school tomorrow (Wednesday the 10th) and then the wedding shower is the 28th. Seattle on the 3rd of July, grad party on the 12th, wedding on the 7th of August, Cheri to college on the 16th. I am hanging on and ready to enjoy the ride. Hopefully, I will get some R&R somewhere in there this summer.
Grad pics below -
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About Me
- Cindy
- I am a mother and a grandmother (how did that happen?)I am a teacher. I teach English, Yearbook, Speech and Theater, and Zumba. I have taught many other things over the years. I love teaching.