Many Pictures from Graduation - Scholarship #2 - Projects for School

It's been an extremely busy month! Here is what we've been up to this month!

 

Ryan received his second scholarship.  His essay was one of the four chosen to receive the IPCA scholarship - which is my union.

 It was held at Carrabba's and the food was excellent!

 Once again, he was the only boy out of the four winners. 

 

 At the end of football season, the football team gifted me with a photo session for our family. (As I had taken pictures from the field for the past four years). I chose the following three poses:

 

 

Ryan graduated on May 26th!

These are the graduation announcements we ordered through the school

 

Getting ready to mail the announcements

 The inside envelope

 

There were over 600 graduates 

Ryan is about three quarters of the way back on the right side.  My mom, dad, brother, Bill and I are sitting in the lower right side of the picture not too far from the railing. 

Here is Ryan walking into the arena

It was extremely hard to get a good pictures from so far away!

Here he is getting his diploma.



 This is the professional picture we purchased. 

I'm outta here!

This picture appeared on the Daily Herald Website

I decorated the mailbox while Ryan was at work and he came home to this

 and this was hanging on the garage door when he pulled into the driveway!

(The balloon bouquet was given to him by the front end managers from work)

 

These flowers were delivered from Aunt Marge

GO GO MUSTANGS COLORS 

 Before we left for Northern Illinois University we took these pictures

 It took a few stores until I found clothes to match the colors of Ryan's cap and gown!

 Ryan with his best friend and our neighbor, Raymond

 Ryan received many generous gifts.  These were the gifts that Bill and I gave him.

We got him a new laptop, cash, and gift card.

(The teddy bear is dressed in a cap and gown and reads: Mustangs 2013" 

 The Diploma

 

Although Seniors have been out of school since May 23rd, I'm still working!  We had snow and flood days, so we don't get out until June 5th.

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I was asked to make something for the bus drivers for Bus Driver Appreciation Day.  I had the students from the three different buses sign these foam board cards.

 

 

I made these Tagxedo's (similar to Wordles) for some of the teachers/friends for an end-of-the-year gifts:

 I made some classroom signs too

(This is for a teacher who is getting married and will have a different room number due to a new last name)

I wrapped the framed art in these cute reusable bags 

I made matching cards

 

 and attached them with these matching butterflies - they turned out so cute.

 This is a personalized reusable bag for a teacher I check snacks for each morning.

 These are the gifts I'm giving the students.  It's pencils that say "Third Graders are #1" and some

Play Dough

 

Tomorrow is Field Day and the following day is assemblies and other events to wrap up the year!

I'm looking forward to having the next 2 1/2 months off!

Hope the weather gets better!

 



Scholarship Banquet NUMBER ONE!

We attended the scholarship banquet at Maggiano's in Oakbrook on April 20, 2013.  The luncheon was very nice and the food was delicious.

 

 

 

These are the scholarship winners and

YES! RYAN IS THE ONLY BOY! 

 

 

Ryan received a call last week from my union, Indian Prairie Classified Association -

HE WAS SELECTED AS A WINNER OF THAT SCHOLARSHIP ALSO!!!!

AGAIN, THE ONLY BOY!

 

Check back near the end of the month for pictures from that banquet

 

(Cap and Gown pick up is next week -hoping to have pictures of that too) 

Time is just flying by!

~Lisa~

4 Months Into 2013

We're already FOUR MONTHS into 2013???  How did that happen so fast? 

Here's some of the things that have happened in our family since my last post

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~JANUARY~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

Ryan turned EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD!!!!

We just had a small family get-together with Grandma and Grandpa at their new home.

Here's our MARVELous son!  He's into DC comics, so I tried to stick with that theme!

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~FEBRUARY~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

These are the favors I made for the students for Valentine's Day - They each got a personalized bookmark and some lip balm and deck of cards.

 

My teacher friends got a little surprise too.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~MARCH~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Easter was the last day of March! - It was also the last day of spring break : - (

Ryan asked that I still HIDE HIS BASKET!

He found it, went to work, and then we drove over to my parent's house for Easter Dinner.

(somehow, I forgot to take pictures)

 

 

There aren't many days left of school.  Hard to believe, but Ryan is off to college in the fall.  He received his letter of admissions to College of DuPage:

 

 

The BIG news is - he won the scholarship from his union Local 881.  He was the Northern Illinois regional winner!  He will be presented with the scholarship on Saturday..... stay tuned for pictures!

 

Lastly, I have had several teachers tell me I should "sell my stuff" I make for school.  I thought about it for a while and then decided to take the plunge!

 

I have been pleasantly surprised at the success I am having at selling "my creations"! It's addictive! I have the app on the iPad, and every time someone purchases something you hear a cash register sound!  It's so exciting to hear it and to try to figure out who purchased the item and where in the world the students will be using the item.

Besides all the USA sales, I have sold many things to Australia and Canada. It's amazing to think of children all over the world using items I've created during their school days!

You can visit my store here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Lisa-Sadler-9956

 

Hope to post a little more often!  It's amazing how fast time flies!

 

(this signature tag is appropriate for today - we've had major flooding in our area - school was canceled due all the road closures! FYI - 31 more school days left, not that I'm counting or anything!)