It's a Luau

Oh what fun this has been.  The school asked me if I would head the decorating committee for the school dance.  The first one they have ever had!

 

YES PLEASE

and.... OH MY that is a HUGE room... it's approximately 13,000 square feet of HUGENESS!

 

Yay!!!!

 

YIKES!

 

Hello decorating party of 2.... Katie and I didn't want extra hands to "mess up" our program.  One other mother said pleassseeee so ok, and then we had one lady not make it...so decorating team of 3!

 

I had 1 1/2 weeks to get it all together on a wicked tight budget....

 

So we had a bunch of projects going.   Pineapples for décor....sure!

 

Sand..... Yes please

 

 

Centerpieces Oh yea baby!

 

 

 

 

 

Oh my loves.... my love of the pineapple.... is it silly oh yes.... but is it amazing... OH YES!  (each leaf was hand painted with love)

 

 

YES PLEASE!!!!  I love you pineapples!!!!  You're BEAUTIFUL!  (yes I talked to them...)

 

 

whew - one week of frantic cutting/clipping/gluing making madness!  whew....

 

 

4 ft totem pole.... in the back seat...sure!!!

 

 

After nearly 3 hours to pull it together - combining the hand made stuff along with the décor they already had...... we were finished.

 

The set up.... photo booth area.

 

 

 

Drink bar.

 

 

 

snack tables

 

DJ stage

 

 

 

overview

 

 

 

 

 

front desk

 

 

we covered the windows - preventing peeping parents....(school requested that)  LOL!

 

 

Love the umbrella and beach balls

 

 

 

 

 

This was one of our biggest ventures yet..... I would LOVE to be a party planner..... sign me up!!!

 

(They have already asked us to do ALL of the dance décor!!)  YIKES and a lot of YAY!!!

 

The kids had an absolute blast!!!!

 

Here is the coolest kiddo of the night!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What a FUN experience for them!!!!!!



Groundbreaking!

Our school/church is preparing for the final phase of development on the campus.  Everyone is SO excited to see this happen.  It will have a gym, auditorium, science labs, music rooms, offices, additional class rooms...all kind of awesomness.... and very importantly - it will be adding another 228 parking spaces!!! (there's never enough parking, right?)

 

Anyway they set up a tent and it was an AMAZING day.  The weather was pretty perfect too.

 

They invited our cheerleaders to come to represent the school spirit. 

 

 

The door below - shows where the real doors will be.  It was pretty neat to see this....

 

 

there were quite a few people that came to celebrate 

 

 

I just love that the Pastor always wears that hat LOL!

 

 

 

The committee had also invited both the church kid choir and school choir to come sing.

 

 

I was in charge of making sure the cheer girls got where they were supposed to be.  I don't know why I was nervous about that....they're great kids and did what they were supposed to!

 

 

The ceremonial ground breaking!

 

 

Something I thought was pretty neat was Fr. requested that we bring water with us... he blessed the water and went out there and spread the blessings wherever we wanted to.  It was neat! It makes me feel all sentimental inside, just to be a part of it.

 

 

 

Parental picture! There's never enough of those LOL

 

 

Mikayla broke the ground too.

 

 

 

 

Here is the video of the song

 

Here is the video of their cheer

 

I can't wait to watch the building grow!!!

 

 

Below is the area on Sunday.

 

 

Here is the area on Monday....... the dirt is moving already!