Homecoming 2015

Saturday, September 19, 2015

I'll have to have M&M fill in the details on what they did for the date.

Taking some pictures while waiting for her date.

Attempting to put on the boutonniere - it is much harder to put on a shirt than it is to put on a suit coat!

His tie matched her dress perfectly! They were very well coordinated!

Wrist corsage

Here are some group pictures that were taken at her date's house:

M&M made the boutonniere - although apparently we didn't take a picture of it by itself... She added some jewels to it instead of using the baby's breath.

Prom 2015

Saturday, March 14, 2015

In February, M&M was asked to prom by a friend from band. He had someone give her a ball made of rubber bands. She had to unwrap all of the rubber bands to find this note inside, along with his name:

She answered him by writing a letter on individual Dum Dum lollipops and then numbering the lollipops so that he could unscramble the message. Then she had friends give him a bunch of lollipops throughout the day until he had all of them. The message said, "I would be a Dum Dum if I did not say yes" and then it had her name.

A couple of months ago I was searching for some modest formal dresses for M&M and found a listing in the ksl.com classified section that listed several that I was interested in, all from the same seller. I met the lady selling the dresses at a parking lot and ended up buying 3 of her dresses - and this was one of them. They all fit M&M perfectly. The one she wore to prom was her favorite because she loves the color blue - the other 2 dresses are a light purple and black. This one reminds me of Cinderella's dress - a very pale blue with a pretty floral pattern with sequins on the top of the dress.

So, we had the dress early on but we didn't have shoes to go with it. So the Saturday before the dance, M&M and I spent the day driving around to stores to try and find what M&M was looking for - some sparkly high heeled shoes with closed toes - but not too high and she didn't really want the shoes with straps that we found everywhere. After going to several stores and having no luck we finally went to J.C. Penney at the mall and found what she was looking for.

M&M did her own hair. It was nice that they had the activities the night before because she had plenty of time to get ready and wasn't super stressed and rushed.

M&M sent her date a picture of the color of the dress and he showed up with a perfectly matching bow tie and vest.

M&M and her date were in a group with several other couples from band and they had a lot of fun. They had some pre-dance activities the night before where they had a nerf gun war and played human sized Hungry Hungry Hippos. The dinner was served at her date's house and they had candlelight dinner set up with his sisters serving and typed menus for them to pick items from. They were also served sparkling cider. The dance was at Thanksgiving Point.

Boutonniere we made for M&M's date.

M&M's wrist corsage

Sweethearts Dance

February 21, 2015

This was a girl's choice dance that M&M asked someone from our old ward. She was in a group with a good friend of hers from our old ward as well. They had a lot of fun - it was a fun group for her to be with. I found her dress at a second hand store and we made a little jacket for her to wear over it. M&M and I made the boutonniere for her date. They ate dinner at one of the girl's homes - ordered Chinese food and had family members dressed up to serve them.

Homecoming Dance

Saturday, September 20

M&M's first formal dance! Here in Utah it is a tradition to make a whole day of the date. There were 3 couples in their group. They started in the morning played some games at someone's house from their group. Then they ate pizza for lunch and went to play some miniature golf. After that, she was dropped off at home to change and get ready for the dinner & dance. The dinner was homemade and they ate at her date's house. Then they went to the dance and afterwards made s'mores over the fire pit at her date's house - she brought a change of clothes for after the dance. She had a really good time. It was nice because she is good friends with her date and knew the other boys in the group as well.

M&M has a good friend that is a year older than her in school but they are almost identical in size. Her friend offered to let M&M borrow one of her dresses for the Homecoming dance. This was one of her dresses and it looked really nice on M&M! I found the shoes at a secondhand store - and they looked brand new.

She did her hair herself!

Posing out back for her dad...

Pinning on the boutonniere

I decided that since we have 5 girls and will most likely be needing lots of boutonnieres in the future, that I would learn how to make some.  This is my first homemade boutonniere and I think it turned out really nice!

The 3 couples in their group. These pictures were taken by M&M's date's parents.  They ate dinner and did most of the activities at her date's house.

When M&M's date's mom found out that M&M was going to be wearing red shoes with her dress, she had her son buy these red shoes to match!

Homecoming Dance Invite!

When we arrived back home from my parents' house on Labor Day, we were getting ready for bed when the doorbell rang.  This was on our doorstep:

The boy's name that asked her was spelled out in the blue papers around the "minion" Twinkies.

The boy that asked M&M is one of her good friends from our old ward.  After searching around at the stores for some way to answer him, we finally came up with this idea:

The girls had fun helping to draw faces on the balloons and to make the feet.  Then one day after band practice, M&M and I went over to his house to leave these on the front porch. We put pieces of paper inside of the balloons and when the message was put together it said, "It would be despicable of me not to say Yes."

(I can't believe that I have a daughter old enough to be dating and going to these school dances!)