I had my second 10 year high school reunion this past weekend. I didn't graduate twice (barely made it out once!) but was invited to the reunion of the school I attended 7th-10th grade. When I got the invitation for the first reunion, I emailed some of my Wall girls and asked if
we were going to have one. They all said, great idea, Amy, why don't you get started on that! Didn't have to ask me twice! Put on a party? The biggest one I've ever done? Yes, please!
We had the reunion in the smaller of the two fellowship halls at the local catholic church. There was a playground right behind it for the little ones, and plenty of room for us to spread out and visit. Some of the guys cooked burgers, Marlayna had a delicious cake make, and we had an absolute ball.
Kysha and Skylar came to help decorate before hand, and Shyanne helped tremendously, from putting together and mailing out the invitations, decorating, and bringing year books from almost every single year we were in school. That was a huge help, since I only went to school there for our last two years, I didn't have anything like that. We counted, and 27 of our classmates went to school together from kinder until graduation. I think that is awesome. I hope to be settled somewhere so my girls can have that experience.
One of the things that worked out great for us was that I hired a photographer to take pictures, so none of us had to worry about getting all we wanted while chasing kids.
Katie Probandt graduated a couple of years behind us and has just launched her photography career, and I think she did a great job. You can check out her work from the reunion
here.
We had a pretty large group of friends, but within that there were smaller groups of 2, 3, or in our case, 4 girls. We even named ourselves AMOS, for Amy, Marlayna, Olivia, and Shyanne. Olivia has moved off to South Carolina, her oldest was turning 1 this weekend, and she's newly pregnant with number 2, so she wasn't able to come. We missed her! But we took a picture with her spot open :)
I had so much fun putting this thing on and then during the reunion. It didn't feel like work at all! And I think everyone enjoyed themselves. There was a lot of talk about not waiting another 10 years and having a reunion at 15. One even suggested an 11 year reunion!
