Lauren's Senior Year of High School

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Lauren's Senior Year of High School

As I write this, Lauren has already left for college. Yep, my baby girl is all grown up, and has moved out of the house and into her own college apartment. It happened so fast. ...it's been hectic - Jacqui's work has been busy, and then add all the graduation, prom, college stuff on top of that - well - hectic, exciting, and sometimes a little nerve-wracking. But I wouldn't trade it for anything. I am so proud of Lauren. Her grades in HS were good enough (Summa Cum Laude) that she was granted automatic admission to both UT and A&M. She really had her heart set on UT and living in Austin, but she didn't get admitted into the Engineering or Business schools there - while she did at A&M. SO my daughter is an Aggie. Whoop!

Anyway, now that you're all caught up, here's some pictures form Lauren's prom, graduation, senior awards ceremony, the last walk, and her 'senior pictures' that were professionally taken (and it's obvious, as they really came out great IMHO).

Lauren and Grace

The Prom Dress

OK - here's the story about prom. See that huge group of kids? All their parents got together and formed an unofficial 'prom committee' to organize and chaperone (1) dinner at the Sweetwater Country Club, (2) two limo busses to take them from Sweetwater to the prom (3) two limo busses to pick them up after prom. And while they are loading into the buses after prom, they are changing into casual clothes and giving the rented tuxedo's to designated parent pickup people (this was our job). (4) The limo busses then took the kids down to Galveston where they (5) rented two adjoining beach houses for Saturday AND Sunday night, as Monday was 'Senior Skip Day'. Man, these kids are spoiled, and yes, I'm as much at fault as anyone. Only the BEST for my Daughter!

Grace, Lauren, Payton and Bella

Lauren sent this picture from the beach house

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE SENIOR AWARDS VIDEO
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This is a really neat tradition that RidgePoint does called 'The Last Walk'. It's a celebration of the last day, and the very last time the seniors walk down the hall and out the building.
For me - being there and experiencing it was fun and exciting, and a bit sad. It was really sinking in that my daughter was graduating from high school.

Before the walk, there's an audio/visual presentation with lots of videos from the year - football games and stuff like that. They also had a section where they had a 'before and after' picture of everyone like the one below.

OK - almost ready for The Last Walk....

Get outa the way - here they come!!

BOOM - look at all those high school seniors!

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE SENIORS LAST WALK - part1
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CLICK HERE TO SEE THE SENIORS LAST WALK - part2
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CONGRATS EVERYONE - YOU DID IT!!

Hey there's Lauren! ...and Grace, and Natalie, and Bella and a few other familiar faces

That's it - High School is OVER

Gig 'em!!

THE GRADUATION CEREMONY

We got there a bit late (damn traffic), and originally were gonna sit waaaaaay in the back.

Thankfully, Julie, Kenn and Mimi had saved some seats for us a bit closer..... see Lauren? No, me neither.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE GRADUATION
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WOOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!

Everyone was taking pictures afterwards, and of course we were no exception.

Lauren and Clark make a cute couple

Our Happy Family.
And look how big Austin is getting...14 and counting. Won't be too long and we will be doing this again for him.

Lauren and Mimi

...And Grace!

We had a graduation party at our house - and this big Jenga was a hit!

We had a good crowd - lots of cars

Mimi and Nana enjoy some wine and a nice chat

Julie, Nannie and Bruce join in as well

And watching sports - it's Beck and Ryan (of course).

Some of the kids eatin'...

...and gambling.

Well lookie there! These kids actually knew how to play pinball~! ...and when he saw the machine he said "Iron Maiden - I'd never leave the house!"
I was surprised they even knew who Iron Maiden was.