Homecoming dance!

Okay I know that the Disney trip isn't finished. But I felt this event was far too important to wait until I actually got around to finishing that damn trip. ;) I will get it done.. I promise! But I think I'm just going to lump the rest of the trip into one big post with a ton of pics and call it done! lol

So last week was Hannah's very first homecoming dance... a fairly formal affair around here. Of all the milestones we've gone through with the kids... watching Hannah become a high schooler has been the hardest! The last 14 1/2 years have just flown by and I can't get them to slow down! Starting high school just reinforces the fact that she only has a few more years until she goes off to college. And while I will still have plenty of kids at home... okay let's face it I'll have kids living here til they put me in a nursing home ;)... Hannah will be branching out on her own. As her life gets busier and busier I try and savor all the little moments I get with just her.

And these last few weeks I've had the opportunity to help her prepare for her first dance. Going shopping for her dress wasn't quite the long drawn out experience I was expecting. We walked into Macy's, I pointed out a dress that I thought was appropriate for a 14 yr. old, she tried it on ( the ONLY dress she tried on), loved it and we were done! I didn't even bother to look at the price tag because it was just THE perfect dress for her and I didn't care how much it was. Lucked out and it was only $75! Thank you Mema Judy for helping buy the dress :) We also shopped for shoes and jewelry that day and picked up a couple things for the baby too. I'm fairly certain I'm the only mom out there that was shopping for homecoming attire and newborn attire at the same time. lol

And then I got to spend several hours with her as she was getting her hair done. Could I have done it myself... probably. But I never got my hair professionally done for high school dances and it's something I wanted to do for her. She got new highlights, a new cut and then a partial updo with curls. Grand total....let's just say it was alot more than the dress! =P But she loved it and that's all that matters right? I just need to keep telling myself that. ;)

We took her over to her boyfriend Alex's house for pictures and then they went off to dinner and the dance afterwards. They both said they had a wonderful time!

So we've passed yet another milestone. A high school dance. It doesn't seem all that long ago that Matt and I were going to those dances together... okay it really wasn't that long ago. lol But the fact that Hannah was old enough to go to one still boggles my mind. And I know there will be many more dances in the coming years...but there's just something special about that first one.

I'm having issues with blogger and it won't let me upload pics!! So hopefully I can get some homecoming ones up soon!