Middle School Valentine's Dance

Jenna had her middle school Valentine's dance tonight. She and her friends make SUCH A BIG DEAL out of all of their school dances this, ha ha! Even though the dance is casual, they still get dressed up in dresses (and often wear each other's dresses), and go to one of the girls' houses (usually Caprina's house) and they all get ready together. Then Caprina's dad drives them the half mile to the dance in their enormous RV (the party bus) and the girls crank up the music and dance and sing at the top of their lungs. There had been a bunch of drama leading up to the dance with certain guys in their friend group asking certain girls in the friend group to the dance. When Jenna told me this I said, "Don't they know it is not a date dance?" Kind of weird. But as middle school relationships go, most of the kids "broke-up" before the dance anyway. But a few still went with the person who asked them. Several boys had hinted to Jenna that they (or their friend) wanted to ask her to be their Valentine, but she successfully squashed such attempts by saying that she didn't want a "Valentine" and was waiting until 16 for anything resembling relationships or dating. Good for her! The girls all had a great time before, during, and after the dance, and took a billion pictures, ha ha! 

 

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! 

Preference -- Jared

Jared went to Preference with Charlotte Apple.  They went hiking in the morning with their group in Kayenta. It had been raining all day on Friday and off and on today, but must have been okay for their hike! They went out to eat at the Black Bear Diner and then to the dance, which was held at the Gardener Ballroom at DSU and then played games at one of the friend's houses. Jared said that the date was awesome!

 Pictured:  Matt Gottfredson/Lindsey Bringhurt; Jake Brown/Heather Condie; Marcus Esparza/Fariba Mahmud; Jared Jensen/Charlotte Apple; Josh Wilde/Kira Boettcher.

(A copy of Charlotte's screen-shot on snapchat).

Senior Ball -- Janika

Today was Senior Ball (and is was raining just like Junior Prom).  Janika's day date included swimming at an indoor pool for their big group.  She arrived back home around 3:00 and started getting ready for tonight's event when Julie (Rick's sister) called and said that she and Madee were in town.  Abbee had told them that it was Jani's dance tonight and so she offered to come and do her hair and have Madee do her make up if she was interested.  YES!!  They did a great job and Janika looked absolutely gorgeous!!

 

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