end-of-year floor party 2012

I wanted to do something special to celebrate the end of the year and honor the seniors on our floor. They've all been with us for two years and have become like daughters, sisters, and friends. This year I themed the party after the schools the girls had chosen. We have one going to Dartmouth, one to Vanderbilt, one to Baylor (Sic em Bears!), and seven going to OU. I used the school colors for tableware and even found some music from each of the schools.

I printed out these for notes to each of the seniors.

Our buffet for the evening. The menu consisted of foods that represented each school. We had "Vanderbilt" hot chicken (fried chicken, sprinkled with cayenne pepper and eaten with a piece of white bread and pickles), "OU" wheat salad (made with Waugh wheat, so I guess you could say it was really OSU wheat, but we won't tell them), "Dartmouth" corn chowder (it actually worked out that this was for the girl who's vegetarian, so I just left out the bacon), and "Baylor" Dr. Pepper products to drink.

Thanks to pintrest, for dessert we had "class rings" (ring pops) and "diplomas" (rolled wafer cookies with pull-apart twizzlers tied around the middle).

After dinner we played Pictionary using graduation, college, and Western Civ terms.