Showing posts with label dance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dance. Show all posts

3.22.2011

mormal

On Friday Megan went to Mormal (Mormon + Formal = Mormal)  4 local stakes (congregations) from Mission Viejo,  Rancho Santa Margarita, Laguna Niguel and San Clemente) put it on every year.  The dance was at Soka University - a beautiful campus.


Before the dance the kids went to Dana Point to take pictures.

Friends from church & school.





Love these pictures of Megan with her cousin Dusty



  Dusty & Megan and their dates



As the sun went down it got cold, very cold.  The girls were shivering in their dresses.




We found the cowboy booys on ebay and Megan was beyond excited to wear them.

2.17.2011

TOP SECRET . File# WF2011

This last Saturday Megan and friends were off to Winter Formal at the Richard Nixon Library.  Before heading out to the dance they had a great time taking pictures at the Oakley building AND eating dinner in the lobby.  The pictures turned out unique which is what the kids wanted - I think they are tired of dance pictures at the park.  We even edited the photos to look like they perhaps came from an old spy camera.

Here's a few from the night...

The whole crew.  A great bunch of kids. 



The girls.  Loving the pictures of the girls in their nice dresses posing on a dirty tank.



Also love these shots of the giggling girls.




The boys.  I think they thoroughly enjoyed the tank.



This was the one shot we edited different just cause the sun was so awesome.


Megan and her date Austin.












There was definitely no lack of cool places to take pictures.  The kids posed with guns...


and cool maps.  Not to mention torpedos, mines, motorcycles, bomber chairs and more.


Megan and Em with Megan's date Austin and his sister.


Dinner was set up in the lobby where the kids feasted on a fancy dinner of In-N-Out burgers and fries.



Once dinner was done a limo picked the kids up and whisked them to the dance.


After the dance they headed to our house for breakfast - waffles and breakfast casserole.  At our home they were greeted by the lovely piece of modern art created by Luke especially for the occasion. 



2.16.2011

gotta catch 'em all

Our high school just had Winter Formal which is a girl ask guy event.  Here's the details of how Megan asked her date.

She started with clear plastic christmas ball ornaments that she separated - spray painting one side red and the other white.


Once dry she inserted one puzzle piece into each ball.  The puzzle was an enlarged photograph of a local place that Megan had cut into 12 pieces.



Megan then took the 12 balls and added black electrical tape around the middle and finishing them off with a round white sticker.  If you are a geeky boy or live with any geeky boys you might now recognize that what Megan was creating was pokeballs from Pokemon.  We apparently embrace geekiness in our home.


All Megan needed to complete her invite was a letter from the Pokemon Center and the actual invite (little square card below) that was inserted into a pokeball and placed at the location that the puzzle revealed when put together.


January 16, 2011
To:  Brock, Pewter City Gym Leader
From: Nurse Joy, Pokèmon Center, Kanto Region
Dear Brock,
We need your help!
Yesterday, at the break of pokèdawn, the malicious trio of Jesse, James, and Meowth 
(that's right), otherwise known as Team Rocket attacked a pokètrainer in the Oaktree
Forest, scattering all his pokèballs.  We need you, you squinty-eyed, hair-gelled 
pokèwonder, to save the day! 
According to our pokèsources the trainer lost 12 pokèballs, all in the vicinity of the
pokèbridge, located near the center of the pokèforest.  We need you to immediately get
dressed in the provided pokètraining ensemble and locate all of the pokèballs.  You
GOTTA CATCH ‘EM ALL!  
Once you have safely gathered all 12 pokeballs it is imperative that you bring them back
to the safety of your pokèhome to be opened so as to not have any pokèmon escaping
into the wilds of the forest.  The safety of these 12 pokèmon is of the upmost importance.
Their pokèsafety is in danger so please perform this mission quickly.
The pokètask may be treacherous and you may desire the company of another skilled
pokètrainer.  Feel free to locate another trainer of your choice and bring them along. 
In the event that you do bring another trainer all we ask is that you provide the
companion trainer with the necessary pokèrecording equipment that we have given
you so as to document the pokèmission for later review.
Thank you so much for helping us solve this puzzling pokèproblem.



Megan, Emily and Meg's friend Kenzie dropped off the letter and a Brock outfit (for those not in the know Brock is a pokemon trainer that wears an orange shirt and green vest) at the door of her intended date, rang the doorbell and ran.


Before ding dong ditching they had hid all 12 pokeballs


at this local park.


While waiting around to make sure no little kids would come by and start grabbing pokeballs before Austin got there I snapped this picture of Emily.  It has nothing to do with the invite - I just like it :)


His response came a few days later.  After a knock on the door Megan walked out to find this...


disclaimer: the above photo is a reenactment :)

The back of the yes sign...


And the personalized pokemon card that accompanied it