AfterProm

Beginning last summer, the AfterProm committee met monthly to plan a fun and safe alternative to the many other "activities" teenagers might come up with to do after prom.  We sold Beef House rolls and jams twice, had tables at sporting events selling sunglasses and lanyards with school insignia, held a soup and salad supper before a basketball game and invited the rival school's community to attend too, sold tickets to raffle baskets, and sought a ton of donations from the community. 
It was well worth it all tonight!

 After taking pictures at ISU with the kids, Jeremy, Caeden, Joyce and I had a quick supper at Steak 'n' Shake. Then the guys stopped by our house to drop off Caeden, while Joyce and I made a few stops to pick up some things before meeting the parent volunteers at the school.  We had some fun trying out the games before getting started in the kitchne.

We were all pretty excited to see the inflatable rental we had only known was "velcro darts" was a massive 15+ feet high!  

This was the other side  There were big nets on poles to grab the balls down from the velcro spots.  

It was pretty cool!

Jeremy's job for the night was to run the "Off with Their Heads" game.  He and Joyce tried it out.

  

I think she got out some good aggression as it took about 8-10 whacks to get the velcro helmet off.  Pretty jarring to the neck, Jeremy said, but fun!

We had a Vegas theme for the night, including hippity-hop horse races.  Joy was the winner in the race against Joyce. 

Students had to sign up, and parents had to indicate if they wanted to be called if their student left the AfterProm before it ended at 1:30.

Each attendee received a mustang lanyard and sunglasses.

Jeff got in some practice dealing cards with the parents. 
(No money or prizes were used in the games...just for fun.)

I was in the kitchen most of the night.  We served breakfast food--pancakes, sausage links, biscuits and gravy, from 10:15 until 11:15.

Then we put out a sundae bar.

Dice table

 Shelby and her sundae

Trying hard to stay awake, and it's not even midnight yet...ughhh!!!

Ryan, Hunter, and Bobby made use of the costumes and props from the photo booth while entertaining the crowd with quite a variety of karaoke songs!

We hired a magician (TnZ Magic) to do an hour show at midnight, but he came early and did up-close card tricks with kids for an hour and a half before his show!  

He was a fantastic magician and performer, and the kids absolutely loved him!

His show included a lot of audience interaction.

 He called on Sylvia once to help with a trick.

He solved a Rubik's cube in less than 10 seconds behind his back!

 His audience was very appreciative!

At the very end of the night, every junior and senior won an awesome prize.  

Annah won an iHome alarm clock-radio and some gift cards.

We were all exhausted and over-tired by 1:30 a.m., but it was such a fun night!  We were so glad the kids all enjoyed it and stayed safe at the same time!