Travis' Grad Party

This past weekend we made the trip to Dearborn for my littlest brother's high school graduation party. It is SO hard to believe that all the DeKruyter kids are done with high school, I feel so old....

The party was a huge success though, but it sure was a lot of work! It was predicted to rain the day of the party, we had a few party tents set up thankfully in case of rain. We set up the morning of just praying and praying that there would be no rain, well prayer works because there was NO rain! The sun was actually out for the entire party and it was gorgeous weather!

It was a little crazy getting ready for the party the morning of, there was some definite chaos getting everything together and all the food ready to go out on the table. My mom catered in some chicken, which Allyson and I went to go pick up. I watched the caterer put the pans of chicken in the car, so when we got home I did exactly like he did to bring them in the house. Well that did NOT work, as I was walking up our front steps the pan of chicken I was carrying bent in half! I quick cradled everything in my arms and held it all up against my body. As I SCREAMED for someone inside to come and help me, I could feel the hot chicken grease just flowing down my body and legs....and of course I was wearing the dress I was planning to wear to the party all day. I only managed to lose 3 pieces of chicken total, but the dress was a total loss :( Despite that little mishap everything else went great! It was so good to see friends and family again in Dearborn!

Travis will be going to Calvin College this fall, he plans to major in biology. The unique thing about this coming fall semester is that all four of us DeKruyter kids will be in college! Bryant still has one more semester left at Calvin, Allyson is going to be a junior at Calvin, and I have one more semester left of nursing school! CRAZY!!!

After the grad party Travis' had a soccer game. He is on a U-18 team. They won the soccer game 12-0....although do not be too impressed, they were playing a U-14 team!!! Those poor 14yr olds, they didn't even stand a chance. But it was their last game, so after the game we boomed the whole team with water balloons!