Friday, April 5, 2013

Banquet in Wonderland


Every Spring, Bingham hosts a banquet for the high-schoolers. A tradition started a few years after they added the high school, it's Bingham's version of the prom, with a few fun twists.

The theme is kept secret till the moment the students walk (or like this year, slide...)  into the room. This year, our students traveled down the rabbit hole to Wonderland, where they spent the evening with Alice (played by yours truly) and her friends.


Lewis Carroll, A Clock, Wild Mouse, The Queen, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, Alice, The Hare, and the Mad Hatter, at your service. 

The students (literally) slid down into the rabbit hole (which was a door propped up into a dark room full of furniture), then walked into the gym, covered in decorations. 

One of the walls in the gym- the other had a shadow puppet of Alice and many faces of the Chesire Cat.

For the first hour, they played games, like Alice's Caucus, Build a House of Cards, Flamingo Croquet- complete with a queen that demanded her card soldiers to take some students out and "off with their heads!" 

The Mad Hatter then invited us to his tea party, which in all its madness, started with a fabulous table of desserts, before moving into a dinner of chicken kebabs and twice-baked potatoes. Props to Beth Long and the parents who made the fabulous food. 
The AMAZING dessert table: meringues, cake pops, a chocolate fountain. The kids loved it.

The rest of the evening was filled with dancing to fun hits that ranged from Thriller to Single Ladies to Celebration to Gangnem Style. It was quite a night. 
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Oh, the cake pops.

The fun part about the evening is the contribution of the staff to make it happen. From planning, to decorations, to serving the food, to dressing up as characters, to running the games, to teaching the students how to do the Thriller Dance, it's a night that we work together to give the students a great time. And a great time was had by all! 


Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Celebrating Easter!

Currently grading: Romeo and Juliet projects for my 8th graders. woot. 

I am blessed to live in a country where we actually have two Easters to celebrate! But as our pastor shared on Sunday morning, this should remind us to celebrate every day as a Resurrection Day.
Proudly wearing our Easter dresses

Elise's sister Grace is visiting right now, so the four of us delightedly put our Easter dresses and celebrated at our Sunday morning service, then invited eight friends over for lunch. Joy excitedly used her mom's Easter Sunday recipes of cranberry chicken, cheesy potatoes, and cheesy bread to make up our feast. 
Enjoying the Jellybean contributions that Grace brought as well!

Hoping that you all enjoyed your celebrations of our Savior's glorious return to life, and the joy that brings every day since.