Prom 2010: Together We Are

I am so blessed to live in a community that values the milestones of our teenagers. So quickly our babies become teenagers and we are so distant from their activities and their most priceless memories. I cherish that I will never be in that situation.

Jr prom is such an amazing event here. Parents are invited to prom!! And the kids love having them there. We are able to enjoy watching royalty announced, when pictures are taken, we can have pictures taken with our kids, we are invited to dance and enjoy a floor show by the junior class. This year there is only 9 girls and more than double that in boys. To make sure all the boys were able to perform, they invited some girls from the lower class to perform, Jaden was one of them. They spent almost every night for two weeks practicing and did an amazing job.

My beautiful girl.


She tried forever and couldn't do it

The Sassy Seven

Grandma and Jaden

Jaden and her BFF Brandi. I love this pix of them.


My three girls: Jaden Hadlee and Brandi


Chad and Jaden

Sweet Revenge

How else do you get a boy back for trashing your room with millions of little pieces of paper? You have him arrested of course!

A while back Nick had knocked over a girls garbage can, we used this as the reason that he was being "questioned". I had a friend of mine go pull him out of class in front of all his classmates, and drag him to the principals office to discuss the matter. The principal(on the right) was so into this, he wanted Deputy White to handcuff him and pat him down, she would not, of course. Once in the office they talked for a minute and Mr Brady stated that it would be in Nicks best interest if they called his parents to the school and he left the room to call them. When Mr Brady returned, he had the sign and the balloons from Jaden! Poor Nick, I thought he was going to cry.

Nick Lloyd asked Jaden to prom this year. He was in Rexburg for a school activity so Hadlee, Brandi and I decorated her room for her. The shredded paper was a disaster trying to clean up and I am still finding papers everywhere!

Bienvenido a la haceinda loco

As I have said before I am the biggest procrastinator! Josh had to build a Hacienda for a school project and we got it completed the night before. He did such a great job and we had so much fun building it. And yes Josh, you were right, the marshmallows were much better than the boring legos....

Jaden's Foxtrot

Jaden's Social Dance club preformed the Foxtrot at the Bancroft variety show. Jaden and Ryan had never done this dance before and learned the dance in two hours, the day of the show!

Not Busy Anymore

I have no pictures today. Normally I only blog when I have a picture to attach. I have been a very bad blogger lately. I have been so busy with work, Josh's games and cheer. With cheer now over(sniff, sniff) I may get my to do list done.

I am very distraught about Jaden not cheering next year. She came home the other day and just the mention of cheer I turned into a puddle of salty water and snot! I am not the only one that is upset, numerous people in the community have said "what will we do without Jaden?". The principal has also talked to her about continuing because she is almost guaranteed a cheer scholarship. Her cheer coach had a 'vision' about starting an all-star league not affiliated with the school, this way they will be able to cheer and compete. I am determined to make that vision a reality! Do they not understand that this whole cheer thing is about me?! Really what will I do with myself it it is gone?

MY TO-DO LIST :

I am trying to get my basement finished before Jaden moves out! (cross my fingers). And when I say "I" am, that means literally I am doing it. I have gotten the walls primed, the moldings in the office cut and stained, the base for the hearth built.

What is left:

rock and granite the hearth

carpet and hardwood

build the bar

mouldings

install wall and ceiling speakers

paint

lighting fixtures

get a new pool table(since the store that was housing mine went out of business and never called)!

Now that this list is written, is seems so short! So why is it taking so long.....

SnowBall

This year the Cheerleaders hosted a dance, The SnowBall. The night before the dance we were at the school decorating until almost 1 am. The decorations turned out so cute, and their will be a DJ there also. Im sure the kids will have a great time. Oh wait, did I mention Chad and I are the chaparones?!

It was so much fun to sluff school and go shopping with Jaden for a dress. She had wanted a short dress but of course we could not find one she liked ANYWHERE. She found this dress and it was IT. I begged and pleaded for J to get some heels and of course we end up with nike's with a gold swoosh. She is beautiful and she made the nike's look amazing!

I had to get a pic of Jaden at the piano. She is self taught, and plays mostly by ear. She can read sheet music but not like most people do. She doesn't know c,d,e,f,g,a,b, she looks at them like numbers.

Jaden had 5 boys ask her to this dance, she ended up going with her friend Kendall. He is such a good kid and is one of the few that meets Chad's approval. Kendall even brought Jaden roses.

They went with Hadlee, Brando, Nicole and Sawyer. For their day date they went to Logan to Valentines Day and to Dinner. It was 730 when they got home so it was a rush to get ready.

Jaden had warned Kendall that there would be photo shoot when he came to pick her up, he was a little worried about that. So, I promised that I would only take one picture and of course it came out blurry! It was hard to restrain myself and not pull all the kids out of the truck that were waiting. Once I get the dance pix I will post those.

It amazes me how time flies. It seems like yesterday when Jaden was 2 years old singing 'Angels Among Us' to me in her ladybug skirt, while she was rolling on the floor of my Hyde Park house. I cherish every moment I get with her and can't wait to see where she will take her life.