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homecoming

NOTE:  Pictures added 9/30

Tonight Megan is off to the Homecoming dance.  Can't wait for her to come home so we can hear all about it and see pictures.  

Here is a quick photo of Megan and her date (once she brings the camera home I'll post more) but this can at least satisfy grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc. for the time being.

Take a look at their corsage and boutonniere.  They, along with the group of kids they went with decided to hand make their "flowers" instead of buying them - best idea ever!!  The creativity exhibited was fantastic (I'll post pictures once I have the camera back)

Meg and Austin made theirs using the crime scene tape from Austin's invite to the dance.  They worked on them themselves, rolling the crime scene tape up into roses.  Megan also added a little pipe cleaner parrot for some added punch. Cute, creative and they recycled!  

A few photos from the pre dance activities.

Dinner at Ruby's

 

Hanging out the Disney Store in the mall - playing around and taking pictures.

I love these next shots of the kids plopping down in the middle of the mall to play games.  

And of course, the night wouldn't be complete without all the girls heading to the bathroom at once.  I love that they documented it!

we've got spirit yes we do

Final day of Spirit Week was Spirit Day so the girls went all out with Tesoro red, white and blue.  They definitely showed some school spirit today.

Their outfits today made me way happy.  


You see when I was in high school (forever ago) I was in ASB serving as the Commissioner of School Spirit.  I was head honcho in charge of pep rallies, spirit week and all around general school spirit.  I was the obnoxious cheerleader that was always on the mike at pep rallies encouraging kids to dress up and participate in school spirity jive.


So this school spirit thing runs in my blood.  I loved seeing my girls all decked out in school colors - it made my Commissioner of School Spirit heart jump for joy.  I loved that they participated all week during Spirit Week with crazy clothes and good attitudes.  I love that they had fun!!


Next week is sure going to seem lame watching my kids walk out the door in jeans and boring tops.  

ummm, hello beautiful??

Perhaps the most stressful day of Spirit Week was Thursday's Ugly Outfit Day.  This seemed to be the day that was hardest to pull off but after a 9:30 pm jaunt to Ross the night before the girls managed to put together some ugly outfits.

Excuse the poor pictures.  The lighting at 6:15 am is not ideal especially when using the point and shoot camera or cell phone.

Now for the outfits...

I had to include this close-up shot so that our devoted blog readers (who am I kidding - we have none) wouldn't miss any of the fine details on this outfit.  The intense look of the animal, the natural foliage set off with just the right amount of sparkle thanks to the strategically place metallic studs, not to mention how fantastically the shirt pairs with the purple and black herringbone pants.  Emily, you make me proud!


Is it good or bad to admit that the pants were not from my shopping spree at Ross - we actually had them in a closet.  I'm not sure why they were initially purchased and I think we had forgotten we owned them but now that they have seen sunlight the girls may need to be rockin' them more often.  They're kinda so ugly that they're cool.

Megan went for ugly AND comfort.  No lie...if she thought she could get away with it without experiencing total ridicule she would have a closet full of these silky moo-moos and wear them everyday.  


She tried this little number on before going to bed and refused to take it off.  She climbed into bed wearing her new outfit of choice and then sang it's praises more when she got to sleep in because other than hair and make-up she was ready to go.  No precious morning minutes spent trying to put an outfit together.  Go from girl in jammies to dressed to impress simply by stepping out of bed.  I'm telling you, she may spearhead the effort to make silk moo-moos popular with teens.

One more day of Spirit Week wear and than we are back to old, boring outfits.

heading out the door BRIGHT and early

Shield your eyes...it was Neon Day today.  

Emily sporting a Denise Designer Original...hot pink t-shirt cut to make it a bit more fun paired with some sweet tights, neon orange shoelaces and an obnoxiously yellow headband - so cute!

Megan also sporting some nifty tights...yellow tights with neon orange fishnets over them with leg warmers added for good measure.  Bright shirt, some neon feather earrings all brought together into a cohesive neon explosion with the addition of the polka dot skirt.  Thank you Goodwill for always having something to complete an outfit.

Before heading to school the girls met up with some fellow neonites at early morning seminary.  This is probably the most awake and alert they have looked at 6:30 am.  

An unimportant side note...the girls seminary class is huge.  This is only half the class.  There are like 26 or so kids in the class.  Round of applause to Tom, their teacher, for being able to control, teach and love a class this size so early in the morning.  Glad its him and not me!


Now I'm off to help the girls scrounge up some ugly outfits for Ugly Outfit Day - the fun never ends!

howdy pardner!

Spirit Week continues with Wild West Day.  The girls put on their best western duds and cowgirl'd it up.

Tomorrow...Neon Day.  Yea, that should be interesting.

i heart nerds

With Homecoming being this weekend for the High School the Spirit Week festivities have begun.  Today was Nerd Day...

And just to prove that my kids are secure in their nerdiness...a photo of Megan at the mall in all her nerd glory.

We had some final Homecoming shopping to do and she didn't want to take the time to run home and change so shopping we went.  The best part was while she was getting her make-up done at MAC (experimenting for the dance) one of the girls working there commented on how cute she looked, asking her where she got some of her outfit.  When we explained she was dressed for nerd day she still insisted that she liked it.  Who knew Nerd Chic would be a hit.

Oh how I love these two adorable, little nerds!  They make me laugh every day.

Coming tomorrow...Wild Wild West Day.

the answer you have all been dying for

Saturday night Megan got invited to the Homecoming dance - you can see the creative invite here.  The family then spent the next two days trying to formulate a good response back that was in keeping with the crime scene/"die" to go to Homecoming with you scenario.

Monday with plans firmly in place the mischievousness began.  I mean look at Megan...that is the face of a girl plotting.

Meg started her reply by putting together cardboard coffins - thankfully Halloween is just around the corner so these weren't too hard to find

Meg, with a bit of help from Emily and Mom, put together 24 of these bad boys

Who knew 24 little cardboard coffins could leave such a mess.  We are still picking up little white sticker cover papers even now.

After she had the coffins complete she went on to fill them with trinkets, candies and notes.  She and I had shopped early in the day for all the little goodies while trying to think up clever little notes to go with  them.  I'm just getting this out here...I have insomnia so I get no sleep - everything seems funnier with no sleep.  Megan on the other hand has no excuse for thinking some of our lame notes are funny.

Here is a sampling of some of the lameness...

a nose that grows in water - "only I "nose" which coffin holds the answer"

bat pez dispenser - "umm...not the one - you going batty yet?"

bug candy - "stay calm and quit bugging out, you'll have to find the answer eventually"

plastic parachute man - "chute still no answer"

candy sucker with teeth - "is this answer getting all up in your grill?" Remember, I'm getting no sleep so the cheesiness of this is all on Megan

mini old maid card game - "by the time you find my answer i'll be an old maid"

eyeball candy - "eye can see that finding my answer is a bit hard"

wax lips/teeth - "apparently you have bit off more than you can chew"

light stick - "you still haven't found the answer?  you're not very bright"

candy corn - "is this answer bordering on corny yet?"

hugs and kisses candy = "some hugs and kisses to keep you motivated to continue digging"

These were just some of the fantastically witty notes.  Once all the coffins were filled Megan buried them in a huge rubbermaid using 8 big bags of dirt

Dirt that did not smell pleasant.  We really did try to get the best smelling dirt at Home Depot.  Megan smelled every bag of potting soil and went with the least offensive - nice of her, huh?

Once all the coffins were buried away Megan topped it off with these three tombstones that read..."So you really want to go with me to Homecoming so badly you would die?  Then you better get to digging to see if you need to start planning your funeral.  Good Luck.  Love, Megan"

Mission accomplished...almost.  When we went to pick it up to put in the car it was clear that there was no humanly possible way for us to do it - the thing weighed a ton!!  Derek was down for the count as he had the flu and even with Emily helping we were unsuccessful at lifting the beast.

Luckily, two of Megan's guy friends who were heading out for the evening to ask girls to Homecoming came by and loaded the dirt up for us and then went with us to deliver it to the doorstep.

Megan got to hide across the street from Austins house to watch it all unfold.  It was hilarious.  But the best part...Megan purposely left out the coffin that held the answer.  Little meanine!  We drove back to our house leaving Austin and his family to dig.  We came back a half hour or so later to leave the final coffin.

This is the little guy that finally got left on the porch sitting atop a pile of dirt with a tombstone that said "he-he-he, I seem to have forgotten one"