Prom 2009

No promises but here goes trying to talk about prom without flooding my computer with tears.

Well, prom week started with a little drama. Jess' date cancelled thus the drama began. Knew if we survived that it would build some character and maybe show her that she actually can survive what an 18 year old thinks that she can't. Went back to some of Jacob's messages on the strength from within. She did find out what good friends she has as they rallied and showed a lot of love along with seeing the loyalty and love of a sister and two brothers...so proud of them. She did get a date with a sweet young boy who is a friend and stepped up to say he would go. We sent his family into a whirlwind trying to get a tux and make plans but I think both agreed that they had fun. End of drama.

So it was Jessica's senior prom and Stephen's junior prom. They both went with the same group for pictures and dinner which for a mom was extra special to see the sibs do that. Stephen has a friend in Toccoa that he met at church beach camp last summer who came for the weekend to be his prom date. We are all in love with her, such a precious girl who loves Jesus. Stephen had a game in Georgia that morning so the day started extra early. I had to pick up boutineers and corsage early. The florist we used is right across from the ball fields where my boys started playing T-ball as 5-year olds. That morning the fields were full of little ones so yes you know what happened next. My mind started racing backwards to all the times we spent out there and now here I was preparing for his junior prom and my daughter's final prom. You guessed it, the waterworks started. Had an extremely hard time pulling myself together but I did.

Pictures were a blast. We took some at home and then met their group downtown. So much fun seeing all the kids all over downtown dressed in beautiful dresses and some very handsome boys in their tuxes. My major thought was time does go way too quickly!!!

They all had dinner at Casa Bella's (great food and atmoshere) and of course more pics there. They went to the school for the dance. The theme was a night in Paris. All was beautiful according to the kids. About 11pm they came back to our house for a midnight breakfast til about 1:30. Must say that usually very little is going on in our house that time of any night but especially Saturday night with a preacher in the house. He was a real trooper but he admitted that it was lots of fun. I loved having so many come back and tell of all the goings on. You get the true emotion of all of it when they first get back. Kinda like school. Always loved picking them up from school and hearing all about it right when they would get in the car. Just nothing like that emotion straight from the moment. Have to say that this was such a great group of kids, their parents should all be proud. They were all beautiful on the outside but so precious within and chose to have a safe smart fun-filled prom that I'm sure was very God-glorifying. I'm still not sure who had more fun, them or me watching them. Gotta love em.