Did I really just have an open house for my high school GRADUATION..?!?

       Well, the title says it all. The whole thing was pretty surreal, yet nothing has really hit me yet. It'll probably take till I'm completely finished will all my classes for me to truly feel done.

    

       Last night was Courtney's (one of my best friends) graduation ceremony. She goes to Johnson Corners Christian Academy. They had a nice ceremony, although only 3 graduates! 

       Here's a picture of Violet and me at the ceremony. I had to put it on here because I look so ridiculously young. You wouldn't think that in less than 24 hours I would be having my own graduation party :]

       After the ceremony and reception was over we headed up to Williston to go to Applebees. A celebration dinner you could say :] It's a tradition of ours to go to Applebees with Pastor Sheldon. It all started because one time, at Fine Arts Festival, we wanted to go, but they wouldn't let us 3 girls go alone. We grabbed Sheldon and he became our chaperone. We did this a few more times over the years, therefore it became a tradition :] We told him we had to do it once more before fall and figured this was a good time. You know you're a different kind of teen when you actually CHOOSE to hang out with your pastor :] on graduation night of all days! 

       Here's some pictures from our open house. It was very successful and fun. Lots and lots of people and good food :] My outgoing personality came out and I was having quite the time visiting with everybody. haha

 

       Us girls were quite excited to have our faces on cakes. haha

       We had 2 huge tables to decorate, each taking a half. Here's mine. It was really fun to decorate, and yes, those are panda's on it :]

       The four of us: Me, Missy, Cora, and Erin

        Erin is a close friend of mine who moved here in April of '07. Cora is also a close friend who I met last fall. She became a christian and we all got to be very close. Her dad tragically died in a freak farm accident in December. Her family moved right away to Michigan (to be with family) but she was able to come back and graduate with the high school. She's an incredible strong girl and I was very happy she was able to be a part of it all. 

     Here's Missy and myself at the reception. I was very blessed to be able to celebrate such a monumental thing with my very best friend.