Jim’s Graduation | Class of 2013

This past weekend was pretty monumental!  Jim (my handsome brainiac husband) graduated from Cabrini College with his MASTERS degree!!  That’s right… MASTERS DEGREE!!!!    I couldn’t be prouder!!  Seriously… I’m SOOO PROUD!!  What an accomplishment!   One that our crew would never let go unnoticed!!  WE HAD TO CELEBRATE!

Tiffany and I, being the party planning addicts we are, knew this was a prime opportunity to put our skills to work!  We planned Jim a surprise party! A pretty awesome party if you ask me.  Although, it was so much fun, we don’t have many pictures to share with you.  We were too busy being a blast… er, I mean, HAVING a blast! 😉

But you know us, we always have some DIY project up our sleeves, and this graduation party was no different!  One of the little projects we tackled were some pretty adorable graduation cupcake toppers.  They were made out of candy and were a HIT!  PERFECT for any graduation party.  AND since it IS graduation season we figured we’d show you how we made them.  This way, if you are throwing or attending a graduation party YOU could make your own!! BUT if you do, I must warn you they’ll go FAST so hide one for yourself before they all disappear! I myself, learned this the hard way.  No cute little cap cupcake topper for me 🙁 !  My fault, shoulda known better!!!!!

Okay, here is our DIY graduation cupcake topper tutorial:

Materials:

• Reese’s Mini Peanut Butter Cups
• Reese’s Pieces
• Ghirardelli Squares
• icing gel
• and cupcakes (of course)

First, pick out all the brown Reese’s Pieces and unwrap all of the candy.  We put ours in the freezer for about 15 minutes before and it was MUCH easier to unwrap the cold candy.   While your candy is in the freezer eat the rest of the Reese’s Pieces!

When your candy is unwrapped, take a Reese’s Cup and flip it upside down.

Top it with gel.

Place a Ghirardelli square on the gel.

Then with a little more gel, “glue” a Reese’s Pieces on top!

AND VIOLA…. 

A cute little graduation cap for the top of your cupcake!!

We also made some simple graduation signs for the other cupcakes.  They were a nice touch but no one wanted THOSE cupcakes.  They were the rejects that were eaten last! 😉

OKAY!!!!  Now onto the party…

Here he is…the guest of honor!  Jim had no idea what he was walking into.  Well, until he was at the door, looked down the street, and saw his parent’s car.  WE WERE SOOOO CLOSE!!! But he was really surprised!  We hid it pretty well!

GREAT JOB GUYS!  I know it’s especially hard for a certain few of you to keep secrets!  Don’t worry, I won’t blow your spot up! 😉

Again, sorry for the lack of party photos.  I know it is very unlike us to leave out the details!  We won’t let it happen again!! 😉

We partied until the wee hours of the morning!  Aunt Tiff made the kid’s night when she blew up the air mattress and put on a movie.  ACTUALLY, she made us parent’s pretty happy too.  The kids cuddled up and wound down, sorta! They still stayed up way past midnight… but hey, isn’t that what parties are for??

SUNDAY was GRADUATION DAY!!!!!

I figured we can’t have a “graduation post” without a few photos of the actual ceremony itself!

Again, Jim worked so hard… AND I want to brag about how awesome my husband is…. SO here are some shots of his big day!!

YES!! There were bagpipers!  Cabrini College is pretty fancy like that!   AND they had drummers…

I was happy I was able to pause my cheering to snap these few photos of my hunky graduate!  Although I DID break the rules and cross the “commencement barrier”  but hey, my husband only earns his Masters once.   Sorry Cabrini, your little white chain wasn’t holding me back! 

After the ceremony we took some family shots.  Here is Jim with his #1 girl….  

And his cheering section…. 

We were all so proud!

Jim, CONGRADULATIONS, for what is probably the 1000th time, but I am just so proud of you!  I love you and always knew you could do it!

CLASS OF 2013 BABY!!!!

AND for the rest of you SENIORS out there…  CoNgRaTuLaTiOnS to YOU!  May your graduation be quick, your parties AWESOME and your summer the best you’ve ever had!!!

Have a great one gang!

And always remember….

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!!!

xx,

Heather