"You Are The Reason" - Prom 2018

This weekend, our girlie had her last High School Prom.
She graduates in just 2 weeks!

They had so much fun!

Their group was at our house for a little bit of the day date 

and you could hear the laughter come rolling up the stairs. 

How I love that sound!!! 

=D

How grateful we are 

that the twigs have had 

such hard-working, fun-loving, kind, 

good friends through High School!

“Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the cheerful, 

the planners, the doers, the successful people 

with their heads in the clouds 

and their feet on the ground.” 

-Wilfred Peterson

“Surround yourself with people who have 

dreams, desire, and ambition; 

they’ll help you push for, and realize your own.” 

-Anonymous

"Add to brotherly kindness charity,"

-2 Peter 1:7

"Come fly with me" Prom 2017

The theme for Prom 2017 was 

"Come Fly with Me"

 which was totally fitting for our girlie and her date.

He's crazy about airplanes!

(notice the tie pin)

He's pretty crazy about fast cars too and has a deal

worked out with his neighbor

(a pilot)

to borrow his vette

in exchange for doing his neighbor's lawn care.

Our girlie was the beneficiary of all that mowing 

and loved the sweet ride!

Dig these Flynn Rider smolders - haha!

The group was at our house for part of the day date

 and we could hear them

laughing 

clear down in the basement.

=D

I LOVE the sound of teenagers laughing!!!

What terrific kids

and what a fun night.

=D

The night before the winter dance...

The night before their High School Winter Dance, 

these fun people got together 

(minus one of their group members) 

and made their dance boutonnieres

and corsages.

For all but our girlie, 

this was their first time making a corsage or boutonniere.

You're right if you're thinking two of these people aren't in High School. 

Zac asked one of his favorite people 

and High School Administrators, Deb, 

if she could use 2 more chaperones for the dance. 

She said she was delighted to have them attend. 

(Don't you just love the little pine cones!!

We found them on trees at a nearby park 

right after the skies dumped a hale storm on us. 

Our fingers were so numb from the cold and wet that 

we didn't even feel the needles poking us after a while. 

...hahaha...)

Zac and Deb have a tradition of swing dancing together 

so it was a sweet opportunity for them to have another dance. 

We love Deb! 

It was fun for Zac and Ashley to attend a formal dance together too! 

=D

More dance pictures to come...

New things in the rain...

A few Friday evening's ago, we headed out with the twigs 

and their venturesome friends to try some new things.

The first new thing was geocaching in the rain. 

As we drove through the beautiful rainstorm 

along the foot of the mountains, 

lightening was flashing in the clouds where we were headed 

and I was worried our little adventure might be over

but just as we arrived the lightning stopped. 

We bundled up and set out to find the cache with our umbrellas and gps. 

Finding the cache was the easy part. 

The hard part was trying to get the crazy thing open. 

It was a puzzle cache.

We read the clue/story, took notes, 

and gave the directional combination lock 

our best try...up...down...down...down...right...up...time after time. 

Eventually, we were soaked, snookered, 

and ready to head back to the warm, dry car 

when I heard Hunter say "let's go look at the view!" hahaha 

Just like that the teenagers all took off through the drippy scrub oak. 

I love their love of this gorgeous world. 

Hats off to Jenny and Ben for being such good sports 

as this was not your normal Friday night hangout. <3

The next new thing we tried was just past the neon dragon. 

It's a little restaurant called Pig & A Jelly Jar. 

Our friends, the Dixons, have talked about beignets for years. 

I've always wanted to try them and this place has them. 

They also have fried dill pickles, fried green tomatoes, and pigberry shortcake. We got an order of each and passed them around the table. haha 

Just saying, sriracha aioli is the bomb with fried green tomatoes! 

We ended the evening playing Taboo and laughing till midnight. 

If you can figure out the 

"Up, Down, Left &..." cache GC3DF7Y, 

please give us a hint, we're all ears and thumbs! :)