Josh: Senior Ball!!

Today was the last high school dance for Josh! I am glad that he could take Allie Lemmon, from our ward. She had asked him to a girls' choice dance earlier in the year, but he had already been asked. They went with Josh's friends Adam and Caleb Parkhurst, and Cameron Hugunin. Adam took Sarah Lyman, Caleb took Emily Condie, and Cameron took Taylor Peterson. They started off with pancakes at our house. A couple of the kids were gluten free, so I was glad that we had some gluten free pancake mix available. 

After breakfast they went to Veyo pools and to a place to try and catch crawdads. They even brought hotdogs to try and catch them. They said they only saw one, and that the Veyo pools were a little cold, but they still had fun. Then they brought their dates home to get ready and then met at 6:00 for pictures. I told Josh that Tuacahn at 6:00 would work because the sun went down behind the mountain about that time (I had been paying attention when going to Jenna's dance concert). But Cameron suggested a place in Kayenta. It was kind of in the middle of nowhere and there were two round-abouts next to each other. 

Josh had asked me to take the pictures, so we all drove to Kayenta, but it was really hot and sunny with no shade anywhere. It would have been a nice location had we done the pictures later, like at 7:30, but they wanted to do pictures before dinner. Also, some random lady came hiking up the road and said, "Do you know this is private property?" So anyway, we ended up going back to Tuacahn anyway. They didn't want to take pictures by the waterfall, and so we took them in the middle of the road, which actually looked really cool, but we kept having to move every time a car came. 

We got some nice pictures though. We had to take the rest on the bike trail instead of the road because we had to keep moving, ha ha. The kids all went to the dance and had a fun time and then went to Cameron's house for games. I came home and stayed up until midnight downloading and going through the pictures -- editing a few, deleting some, and putting an album of around 300 pictures together to share. I will put a few on this post. I am glad that everyone had a good time! 

Senior Ball -- Jaiden

Jaiden is off to her very last high school dance!! I have mixed feelings about this... I feel a little sad that this stage of life is coming to an end, but I am also excited for all that lies ahead! Jenna did her hair for the dance and it turned out really pretty! We bought the dress from Suzy's Closet, in Hurricane, and had them add in the sleeves. She looks beautiful!! 

For the "day date" they went rock climbing at the Contact Climbing Gym (owned by the Compasses who were in the 5th Ward with us). Then they went to the DI and picked out outfits for each other and did lip sync videos. Jaiden went with Lane Reeves and they doubled with Alex Merdes and Kirsten Carter. Lane brought a dozen roses for Jaiden when he came to pick her up. They went to the Cliffside Restaurant and then took pictures at the lava rocks near Harmons and then went to the dance, which was at some warehouse or something in Santa Clara!  

Here is Jaiden's write up (seriously, why does this generation cram everything together into one paragraph and not capitalize anything? It is so much harder to read, ha ha!)  

Saturday was senior ball!!!! it was so so so fun!! for our day date we went rock climbing at contact!! I am not very good but I tried my best hahah! then we went to the di and got outfits for the other couple in our group and they got one for us, and then we had to make a music video with our outfits!! lane had scrubs and I had a construction shirt so we had no ideas....but then while we were at lunch we got some of the glass sodas and for our music video we did bud like you by ajr and basically just danced around with our bottles it was way fun to make haha!!! then I went home and got ready. they picked us up and we went to cliffside for dinner!! I LOVE that place!! I got chilli glazed salmon and it was incredible!!!! then we went and took pictures and it was a blast!! reagan hopkin's sister was our photographer! and then we hungout for a bit and went to the dance!! it was a PARTY!! LITERALLY SUCH A GOOD DANCE! they played awesome music and I found keirra at the dance and we were screaming and partying so hard it was literally a blast! then after the dance we just hungout for a bit and then went home haha! lane made me a scrapbook with pictures of us and I literally cried its soooo cute!

Senior Ball: Jaiden and Janelle

 Jaiden and Janelle both had fun at Senior Ball! Jaiden went with Josh Larkin and Janelle went with Carsyn Richins. It was a little stressful trying to get both girls' hair done in between the day date and the evening date! 

Here are Jaiden's "day date" pics: 

And the evening pics...

Janelle's day date was at Contact Climbing Gym...

I guess that is all she gave me, so on to the evening pictures! They were pretty brave taking prom pictures in a river!! But they turned out great!