Wow, the weather was amazing for homecoming this year! Made me wish there was a football game to go with it, well, I guess there is one tonight :) This year, the boys didn't invite any guests to the dance, which made things a bit easier, coordination wise. Instead, I checked with a mom who is newer to the community to see if she wanted to send her boys with us. Our four guys have become good friends; they've been over to dig the pool, our boys have been to their house to play video games, they all volunteer at church together, etc. It's always more fun to do pics and go places with buddies!
Chase and Gabby decided they didn't really want to go to the dance, but they did want to dress up fancy, take pics, and then go to a fancy dinner at a steakhouse. Chase drove to our house after his senior pictures and got fancy in our laundry room. He ended up wearing the tie Noah selected for him when they stopped by his work, and it matched Gabby's ($10!) gown perfectly.
It was a little hectic getting that many ties tied well, quickly, but Gabby made sure everyone was looking dapper before we left . . . and I realized about five minutes down the road, that we'd forgotten the boutonnieres Caelan made the boys from these really cool "wood" flowers we found online. Drat!
Pictures went swimmingly at our friends' house, and I even took a family Christmas card picture for them before we left :)
We took lots of pictures in the fading light, here are some of Chase and Gabby and their first formal event . . . everyone else was wearing comfortable shoes, Gabby thought she should, too!
(Gabby remembered about the "look angry" model pose, but we forgot to tell Chase! :)
Graysen wore his knee brace and his sweet Air Force Ones. He said by the end of the dance, he and his buddies just sat out on the patio because his knee was hurting. "I did the worm in the middle of a dance circle, though." :) He said his knees never touched the ground, so it was fine. Ha! Let's see, other highlights I got . . . the DJ was good, but not as good as previous years. Someone snuck six raw potatoes into the dance? Random. It was fine until they started throwing them and our Varsity QB got hit in the face. Also, the perpetrators made the DJ take a bite of one of the potatoes, at risk to his own health. Idk. Weird. Oh, a bunch of their football friends were at the dance. The guy who got the concussion and ruptured eardrum wore a black fedora with a foot long feather pinned to the side. Graysen said it was sweet, but also annoying because the feather kept hitting people in the face :)
Meanwhile in the parking lot, lol, this was very funny! Buck drove up to hang out with me when he finished working. We got some food at one of the little businesses in the homecoming dance business park. When we returned to the van, Buck wanted to charge his phone off of the van's battery (Buck wanted to play his video game ;) After awhile I said, "Should I start the van to recharge the battery?" He said, "Nah, you could do this for seven hours and the battery would be fine!"
Maybe five minutes later, the whole van went dark. We both stared laughing and I said, "I TOLD you!" Buck texted Graysen and had him ask Rylan if he had jumper cables in his car. The text back: "Rylan didn't drive." Buck said, "Ask Cisco." "Cisco didn't drive either." This was about 30 minutes before the dance was due to end. All the other cars in our fleet have jumper cables in the trunk, just not either of the vehicles Buck or I were driving. I texted Caelan, and she was just getting off work. We were way out of her way but had to get the van started! I cancelled her rescue mission when I saw that there was a Walmart five minutes away that closed in about 20 minutes . . . Buck had just jumped out of the van to go get in his car, when his NGF walked up--with jumper cables!
It turns out, Buck started texting his NGF when he found out he and his wife planned to pick Rylan up from the dance. Little did we know, they were taking a nap in their vehicle, just one row away :) That's a quick rescue! The next challenge was the three-foot patch of rose bushes and landscaping between my van and Buck's car, which he'd parked a level lower than mine. It took some repositioning to get the cables to stretch, but they got the van up and running with just minutes to spare! Hooray for friends and unexpected bro time, lol, what a funny way to wrap up the evening :)
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