Summer Bucket List: Man of Steel Premiere

I can officially mark one off of my Summer Bucket List. Last Thursday night we bought our tickets for the premiere of Man of Steel. In true midnight-premiere style, we all wore our Superman gear (Montrell and I went to Spencer's earlier in the day and got ourselves some new tshirts). We lined up outside for about an hour, sweating and Candy-Crushing while we waited (It's absolutely maddening, I tell you! Don't play that game). We wanted to see the 3D-version, and in doing so we got some special limited-edition Superman glasses...really they're just blue with the logo on the side. Whatever makes us feel a little better about spending $3 on 2-cent plastic glasses, I guess!

I guess I should admit to you all that I totally fell asleep for about 80% of the movie. I'm too old for midnight premieres...especially ones where the movie is two and a half hours. It's like after I graduated college, my body just decided that staying up late was not for me. Bah hum bug. My husband and our friend Steven LOVED it, though. It had plenty of action to keep the men entertained. Plus, we all know Superman is the most handsome of all the Superheroes...not handsome enough to keep me awake, apparently...I'll go see it again this week, promise! I'm the worst Superman-fan of all time!

How's your bucket list going? I need to mark a few more off before July gets here!

Last Day of 10th Grade

It's officially Summertime in our home. My husband came home from his last day of teaching Sophomore Geometry and took a nice nap on the couch. Tomorrow means he finally gets to sleep in. Like, really-really sleep in. First time since August! I know he's excited...well, he will be if he ever wakes up this evening!

Remember back in the Fall when he was off to his first day? Still as handsome. That's for sure!

If you were wondering, here's the finished surprise orange project. I used a pinwheel from our leftover wedding decorations and a frame from our living room to add to it a bit. Now he can have Summer junk foods for a week or two, at least!

Last Day of School Gifts

It is finally, finally, finally my husband's last day of school. Word on the street is, our school district is the only public school in Texas still opening its doors this week. Let these kids out for Summer! To help his kids (can 10th graders be considered, "kids"? Ha!) get into the spirit of Summer, we prepared them a treat for their last day. They each got 2 "chill out" popsicles, wrapped in a little printed label. You elementary teachers could make this super cute with ribbons and tags...but, needing to make over 100 of these, I stuck to paper and clear tape! We filled (literally) our freezer with these and froze them overnight. 

My husband has a Geometry parter within his department and we wanted to gift her with a little something too. Nothing says "Summer" like lots and lots of Kool-Aid, right? We bought her this cute tumbler from Wal*Mart, filled it with many flavors of Kool-Aid and taped on a label: "Stay KOOL this Summer." 

That favorite teacher of mine is still at his school right now. Let the 1-hour countdown begin! He'll be coming home to a counter-full of orange snacks as a surprise. "Orange you glad it's Summer?" Corny/cute. That's how I roll. (Montrell, if you happened to jump on the blog before you get home, sorry! Surprise!)

We're in a school-free zone until August! 

I guess I can add Montrell to the household chore-chart, now, right? Right!

Jaci's Graduation Celebration | A Purple Lunch Party

On Saturday, we had a lunch-time celebration in honor of the newest (and last) high school graduate in our family, Jaci. Her favorite color is purple, so we went with that as the theme for the whole room. Using this fun party from PEARsalad as inspiration for our centerpieces, we stuck to dots/circles and lots and lots of pictures of Jaci. All those images from her senior photo shoot were all over the place :)

Jaci's grandpa made some awesome BBQ for all of us and the desserts were all equally as delicious!

Just like the past two celebrations we've thrown here at this same building (lumberjack-shower + sports-shower), there had to be a photo booth. 

To say Jaci's family and mine have been friends for a long time is a bit of an understatement. Our parents met and become friends before she was even born. In addition to my own sister, I got to grow up with Jaci, Trent and Nathan as my siblings too. We realized a couple of months ago we haven't taken a whole lot of group pictures over the years, but we do have this one from Trent's graduation celebration back in 2007! So, we did a remake. I can spot a few differences... none of which involve me getting any taller!

After that, we added in all our significant others. We've grown in number quite a bit over the past year!

To see some of Jaci's graduation ceremony and what we did after this celebration, check out this weekend's recap. 

Weekend Recap | Jaci's Graduation

The big day arrived Friday for so many of the "kids" I've known for so long, growing up in my small hometown. I got the honor of substitute teaching all of these students during their Fall semester and I must say, even from behind the big desk in the classrooms, this is definitely a pretty cool group of seniors!

My little sister-in-heart, Jaci was the salutatorian of this class, which meant she had to give a speech. We were in the stands taking a few deep breaths, knowing we wouldn't want to talk in front of so many! I was just as nervous for her as I was when my sister, Bethany, had to give that same speech at her graduation. She did it flawlessly, of course, (as did Hunter, the Valedictorian). 

The next morning, we celebrated her big day with a fun family party at a local church, in her honor. If you're one of my awesome instagram followers, you got to see bits and pieces of Jaci's purple graduation party preparations already. Come back tomorrow to see the full post on all the sparkles and cute details. It definitely has to have its own post!

Later Saturday evening, family, friends and many of the new grads got together at Jaci's house for rounds of volleyball, horseshoes, washers and, of course, plenty more food. 

Can't wait to read about all of your weekends. From all my social media feeds, 

there seems to have been plenty more graduations and lots and lots of weddings! Let the Summer fun begin!