Digital Underground

Scott and Haley before the Digital Underground Dance

(black lights -everyone dresses in neon colors)

Homecoming 2012

 Scott and Leilani

Senior year Homecoming Dance.  Best dance yet, according to all reports.  I resisted the urge to hand Leilani my jacket. :)

Homecoming

I've waited a few days to post Scott's homecoming pictures because I've been waiting for a friend to email me a picture of his whole group, but I'm going to forget to ever post them if I don't do it now, so here they are. Maybe I'll add the group shot later, or you can see it on facebook, if you're Scott's "friend." When I was at the dinner location (a friend's back yard) at the appointed time to take pictures, as you can see, only five of the twelve couples had arrived, and we were on our way to a wedding so I couldn't wait around.

Scott and Avery

All 24 sacked out in our back yard after the dance watching a movie. John rigged a giant screen with a king-sized sheet and pvc pipe and hung it from our deck. By all reports a great time was had by all.

An Answer

He's annoyed that I'm taking his picture. That's why I couldn't take time to focus. You'd think he'd be used to it by now.

He "popped" the question with his name in a bag of popcorn.

Tough Guys

The ongoing "discussion" in our house for the past week or so has been over Homecoming. Specifically the upcoming Homecoming dance. Scott is a junior and so, I believe, duty bound to make some sweet girl's high school experience complete by asking her to the dance. He has gone back and forth between: yes, I'm going, it's too expensive, no one else is going, okay, we're all going, now no one's going, and, I swear, mom, if you say one more word I'm not going. The fact is, all these tough guys want to go, but no one wants to be the first to ask, or end up being the only one. This is the first boys' choice dance for most, if not all, of them. Over the weekend most of them finally got up the resolve, and everything seemed to solidify at school yesterday, because at about 8:30 last night about 8 excited and slightly nervous football players showed up at my house with an assortment of balloons, cereal boxes, posters and the like. They finished up all their various projects, Scott and a friend had to flip a coin because they were going to ask the same girl, (Scott won, but conceded because he didn't really care), they got a little advice and moral support (and pizza), and then were off to make a bunch of girls happy. All at the same time.

One More Last Time

Last night was Camille's very last high school dance. It was the senior prom or "Accolade." Apparently a good time was had by all -it was held at Ogden's Union Station. Her high school days are truly winding down.

Prom

Camille was at a life-guarding class all day, but for once she was ready and waiting when her date arrived! No last minute hair disasters or broken zippers or stressing over this or that. She didn't seem to worry so much about everything being perfect this time, which was nice, even though I thought she ended up looking beautiful. Maybe that will carry over into the rest of her life a little. :) I mean it's good to do things well, but we need to keep the stress to a manageable level, right?

Prom Invite

So last Sunday Camille's friend, Natalie, called her and asked her if she had been asked to the prom the night before. She hadn't. Natalie said she had given her friend Robert very specific directions to our house. Well it turns out she had given him very specific directions to our neighbor's house. While my 45 year old friend two houses down was flattered to be invited to the prom she kind of figured it wasn't for her, but since Camille's name wasn't on it she thought it was for her next door neighbor on the other side who goes to a private school and doesn't know Robert at all. I can only imagine that girl's confusion. Robert tried to track it down by knocking on doors, but in the end he had to redo the whole thing. Camille finally got her official invitation on Monday night.

There were questions inside each balloon. Since they have all their AP classes together she had to look up clues in her AP textbooks (yes, they are both geeks) and solve a puzzle to find out who was asking her to the dance. It was actually quite clever, and it was funny to imagine our neighbor reading those same clues in confusion.

Homecoming

Saturday was a busy day for Camille. Besides Matthew's baptism it was the Homecoming dance. That meant a daytime activity (riding go-carts), coming home just in time for the baptism, playing the piano for the baptism, and hurrying home to get ready for the dance. It must have worn her out because she took a 5 hour nap after church on Sunday!

Camille and Luke before the dance

Random Pictures

Blowing bubbles at sunsetJunior Prom
Napping with a friend