Junior Prom

Jaiden went to Junior Prom tonight! (January 29, 2022) She got asked to Junior Prom on November 22, 2021 by a good friend of hers, Caleb Slater...

Jaiden and Caleb doubled with Emily and Lane. They went with another carload to Vegas and played Top Golf and went out to eat. They saw some of the sights and then headed back to get ready for the dance. 

Jaiden had gotten her dress for really cheap at Suzy's Closet several months ago, but it was sleeveless and so we brought it to a seamstress to get it hemmed and asked her if she could make sleeves out of the bottom part that was cut off. It turned out cute, but turned out to be a lot more expensive than we were hoping for. The alterations were way more than the dress itself. But Jaiden looked gorgeous and hopefully we will get some more use out of the dress in the future! (The dress looks orange in the pictures taken at our house, but it must have just been the lighting, because it is actually a dark coral color -- not orange, ha ha!)

The dance was at the Red Barn. Jaiden said that it was fun, but got shut down twenty minutes early due to the mosh pits -- which apparently also broke the supports underneath the wood floor -- or something like that! 

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! 

Jaiden: Football Games!!

August 13:  Today's theme must have been tourists!

August 20: Tonight's theme was Camo!!  

September 3: (Homecoming) Red-White-and Blue -- Out!!

Homecoming Dance!!

Jaiden had a blast at both the day date (Veyo Roller Rink) and the Homecoming dance tonight! (Even if she did have to spend most of the day Friday setting up for it and a couple of hours after the dance taking down all of the decorations!) Drawbacks of being a school officer, I guess! I tried to get a picture of her with her Homecoming Queen crown on, but she wouldn't let me -- said it would mess up her hair! 

                                                                    We LOVE this picture!! 

Jaiden Homecoming Queen

Gracie Newbie (Senior Class President) showed up on our porch dressed in a suit with a funny wig, asking for Jaiden. When Jaiden came to the door Gracie did a little dance singing, "You're on royalty, you're on royalty, you're on royalty!!!"  

Apparently being on royalty is quite a big deal here at Snow Canyon High School -- and it is actually a bit time consuming! Since Jaiden is the Activities Rep for SCHS, she already had an extremely big week ahead of her helping to plan Homecoming Week. And now not only was she helping to plan the Homecoming Parade and Assembly, she also needed to be IN the parade and assembly. 

I asked my kids how one comes to be on royalty. They said that they give out a list of all of the seniors to the student body, asking them to circle the top 5 or 6 guys and girls that they would like to nominate to be on royalty. Then all of the votes are added up and the top six guys and girls are the royalty for that particular dance. Then some members of the exec council set out to do silly announcements to the winners letting them know that they are on royalty.  This year those announcements included things like going into someone's room early in the morning to wake them up, shooting water or silly string at someone, dressing up in a gorilla costume, doing a silly dance on someone's front porch and so forth. They record all of these and make a video which they show during the Homecoming assembly along with a video of all of the interviews they do of the royalty members. 

The royalty members are divided into groups and are asked to plan a skit to be performed during the assembly. Rick and I came to watch the assembly. Jaiden had asked Josh to be her escort.  After the assembly they had everyone vote for a Homecoming Queen and King through a voting poll on their devices and planned to announce the winners at the homecoming game that night. 

The skits... Jaiden's group did a skit from Barbie Life in the Dream House. I had never heard of it but apparently they have. Who knew that high school students watch Barbie Cartoons?

Jaiden goes to every game she can and always dresses up according to the theme for that game. The theme for tonight was " USA Out!" Thus the red, white, and blue clothes and paint! At the beginning of the second quarter she changed and met the rest of the royalty at the end of the stadium. During halftime they announced all of the members of royalty along with their parents as they walked on to the field. Then Wally the Warrior ran back and forth behind the students, finally placing the crown on the winners! (Jaiden Jensen, Homecoming Queen and Spencer Hale, Homecoming King!) 

Then the royalty rode golf carts around the track...

(Pictured) Jaiden with the other girls who were on royalty (missing one). 

Snow Canyon ended the night with a big win and celebrated with fireworks. It was a fun evening!! 

Snapshots for Distinguished Young Women

 

Janelle Painting

Janelle took Art 1010 (a concurrent enrollment class) this semester and this was her final painting. I think she did pretty darn good!