Doesn't feel like 20 years!

Last weekend we had the Colts Class of '88 reunion. I'm sure I mentioned before that Mike and I were asked to help with this endeavor. I don't have pictures of the reunion. They are posted on google picasa...so if you want to look, e-mail me for the link.
Friday night was an Alumni Only night at the high school. It really felt like the first day of high school walking in the front doors....except that Mike was with me (I didn't know him on the first day of high school!). The only thing we had to do for this night was take a turn sitting at the check-in desk...which was fun because you got to talk to everyone coming in! It didn't take long and there were over one hundred people there. Everyone was talking and having a good time remembering the good ole days. The guys were hard to recognize because they had changed so much (balding, spare tire, filled out in the shoulders), but the girls looked fantastic! There were only about 3 of us that were chubby. Anyway, I was not excited about going to the reunion, but Mike really wanted to go. I was so surprised how much fun it was! We had a great time chatting with everyone and catching up on their lives for the past 20 years. Jeralyn Alvey from Mike's Butler ward had me take a picture of everyone that was there from their ward growing up. They had a great ward with A LOT of youth! I'm hoping to get that picture from her soon. When the current VPrincipal kicked us out of the building (because he wanted to go home), he told me that we had the biggest reunion that they've seen yet! Everyone just moved to the front sidewalks and chatted there. Some people went to a bar (open invite to everyone, but of course we passed), and we hear the last person left about 11:30pm (the party was supposed to end at 9pm). My parents were nice enough to have the kids at their house, so after picking them up and then waiting in traffic because of a crash, we got home around 1am.



These flowers are from the Country club night...courtesy of Jami
Saturday, was the Alumni/Spouse or significant other night at the Country Club. We were in charge of the check-in desk (thanks to Kat & Cozette for helping with that!), the name tags, and the cd favor. It got kind of crazy checking 200+ people in as everyone was showing up on time! But, again, fun to be at the check-in desk to chat with everyone.
We took a class photo on the golf course...that was fun as we also had the class photo from 1988 there. Good times chatting with everyone again.
The Country Club ran out of food, but we had plenty of desserts thanks to Jami. (A few of us girls went to help her put together desserts on Friday morning). They were delicious and we had enough that we got to take some home! Our kids loved the little cupcakes.
Ok, back to the night. It was outside all night, which was fine except that it was 100 degrees and humid, so I wasn't in good shape for hugging people! That made me a little self-conscious, but then I had to get up and help with the program! I gave the stats of our class and then helped with the 'prizes' for things like: most marathons run, most kids, who had a kid that goes to Cottonwood. We then watched a video put together by Jodi C.'s brother and Matt Murdoch. It was a jaywalking type video where Heather H and Brad S. went to the school and asked current students things like: what do you think of when you hear Depeche Mode, or 1988 (the kid said Vietnam!), and would you go out with this person (pointing to Heather's picture-they said no way and that her hair was big!)
They also added the yearbook photos of classmates who have died-13...I hear that's a lot. Along with 'We will always be friends.' at the end of the show. Luckily, a lot of the 80's music we put on the cd, was also in the video...that was fun!
Back in Black from AC/DC was kind of a good theme from our class!

We finally left about 12:45/1:00am-ish. Mike's folks were nice enough to be at our house, so we felt like we needed to get home. We probably could have stayed and talked and helped clean up for another hour. The next day, the committee kept sending around e-mails saying how great it was and also that we were so sad it was over and we'll miss seeing each other and chatting. One gal said it best when she said she doesn't want to lose these connections again. Hopefully we'll be able to keep in touch better. I'll see if Mike has anything he wants to add, but we just had a fabulous time and the reunion couldn't have gone any better!