40's Hangar Dance

Jenna went to the 1940's Hangar dance with Ethan. Rick and I went last year and had a great time! I would have loved to go again, but it was the same weekend that Rick and I were going out of town. Jenna and Ethan went with Anna and Andrew. They all looked so cute!! 

Earlier that day...

Swing Dancing!

 Janelle and Bryton on their swing dancing double date! 

 And a temple group!! 

Happy New Year's!! (Janelle's Weekly )

Janelle with her MTC District

Janelle's water bottle that she affectionately calls "Walter." She has had this cheap water bottle for years and we keep trying to get her to get rid of it because it is broken, but she managed to find a new lid to it at the DI or something, ha ha! 

Janelle ran in to Bradley Williams at the MTC!! 

Janelle went Side by Side Razor riding with Bryton. She lined her friend, Trina Lang, up with Bryton's twin brother, Kolton. Bryton's brother Kadan and his fiance' McKenna also came. She said that they had  fun time!! 

Sadies, Josh

Josh went to Sadies with Bridget Layton. They are good friends and have been out a few times, and Josh said that it was a lot of fun. For their day-date they painted their shoes to coordinate with their sweatshirts. They turned out great! The dance was supposed to be outside, but they thought it would rain and moved it into commons area in the school. I can't remember what else they did on the date, I will have to ask Josh! 

Preference

Jaiden asked Cameron Hugunin to Preference...

Today was the day!! Other couples were Gwendalyn and Gabe, Emily and Maddox, Keirra and Keaton. It was pretty chill (and cheap) which is nice! One of the boys (Gabe Layton) was in a Rugby game today, so they incorporated that into their date. They went to someone's house and decorated posters and then they all went to cheer him on at his game! Then they had grilled cheese sandwiches at someone's house and painted little plates and mugs (the kind where you use special markers and then put them in the oven to set the paint.) That was fun, but all of Jaiden's sunflowers turned from yellow to brown after she cooked it, ha ha! 

They came home and got ready for the dance. Jenna is the newest hairstylist in the family and did Jaiden's hair for the dance. She is getting really good at it! Man, I sure could have used her skills last year when I was struggling to get Jaiden and Janelle's hair done up all fancy for dances at the same time! Jenna loves it and is always doing interesting hairstyles on herself and on her friends! Jaiden had asked me to take their preference pictures and so I took them at the Opera House. It was freezing! But at least it wasn't raining. (They moved the dance from the outside tennis courts to the commons area inside the high school due to the threat of possible rain in the weather forecast.) They then went to dinner at Keirra's Grandma's house (Cafe Rio style sweet pork). After the dance they came to our house for key lime pie and Jackbox games! 

Winter Formal

In 2020 when the high school proms were cancelled Jaiden and her friends set up their own prom in someone's basement. They had so much fun and said that it was one of their best dances! So this year they were going to do it again in additional to the regular school dances. But then the girl hosting the dance cancelled. Jaiden and some friends still wanted to have a "dress up" date. So they dressed up and had me take their pictures up at airport hill. (Three out of the four dresses are actually Jaiden's, ha ha --  all but Emily's!) Then they came back to our house for dinner and then they looked at all the pictures, laughing at some of their funny faces and poses. Then they chose one picture (their "everybody look awkward" photo) and each couple attempted to paint it!" A couple of the pictures actually turned out pretty well!   

The instructions for the picture below was for everybody to look awkward!