Caveman Dance

Caveman went to Mormon Prom last week.  He went with his friend Katelyn from school.  They looked great and had a really good time. 

 They decided to make each other flowers.  Caveman had a little help (I pretty much made it)

 The shoes.  My friend got these shoes at a thrift store.  They were black.  She was going to a 40's themed party with her husband so he sprayed part of them white.  Caveman saw them and asked if he could borrow them for the musical.  They told him he could have them.  So he started wearing them.  All the time.  The problem was that they were just spray painted, so the paint was all cracked and they looked awful.  So Caveman did a little research on the internet, stripped the paint and polish off the shoes, then painted them with white shoe paint and gave them a good polish all over.  They turned out great.  Katelyn's shoes were cute too!

The whole group.

Sometimes my son makes goofy faces but his date is so cute I have to crop him out.

The guys.

The girls.

Some cheesy prom pictures.

Sassy Dance

Sassy's eighth grade dance was last week.  She was so excited  She was on dance committee and helped to plan the whole thing.  We had fun shopping for a dress but it was tricky.  For one, she is a tiny girl.  She doesn't quite fit into junior sizes yet. And while we didn't want to get her a little girl dress, I still wanted her to look her age and not too grown up.  I think we did good.  My friend Laurie did her hair.  Curls and twists.  It looked so pretty.  

The dress we got was a size three.  I took in almost two inches on each side.  Tiny girl!  She knew she wanted something simple without a lot of sparkle.  She said she didn't want to look like Toddlers in Tiaras.  Smart girl!  We had fun picking out jewelry at Charming Charlie.  And found some really cute gold sandles.  I think it all came together perfectly  She looked so pretty. 

She had so much fun.  She got home and didn't want to take her dress off because she felt so pretty.  And she is.  Pretty inside and out.  And ready to kiss middle school good bye and  move on to high school!

Throwback

We took a trip to Chicago before my sister moved away.  I never posted the pictures but they are worth posting so here we go...

We got up really early to catch the first flight into O'Hare.  We needed to be on the early flight so we could take the last morning train north to my sisters house.  If we missed it we would have been stuck at the airport for a few hours.  Once we landed and got our bags we rode the airport train out to the parking lot, then took the parking shuttle to the Metra startion.   The kids were excited for their first real train ride and loved it when the conductor came around and punched their tickets. 

 We spent the day at my sisters house and went to a great park near her house.  Caveman was excited that there was a skate park there.

 The next day we drove up to Wisconsin.  We toured the Jelly Belly factory and sampled LOTS of jelly beans. 

 Then we drove over to Kenosha.  The dads dropped us off at the lake and they went to play golf.  Lake Michagan was COLD.  A huge storm had come through the night before and there were a lot of waves still.  Caveman was even able to boogie board a little bit. 

 The next day we went into Chicago.  Our first stop was lunch at Portillos.  I'm hungry just thinking about it.  It was Rockstar's birthday and she was so excited to go to the American Girl store.  She had fun picking out some new clothes for Kit Kittredge. 

 We went to Navy Pier and rode the ferris wheel.  A couple of shots of Chicago from the ferris wheel...

 We left Navy Pier and went over to Millennium Park.  The girls played in the fountain for a minute but there were too many people there.  We checked out some of the art in the park then made our way to the bean,

 Then we left the park and walked over to Pizano's for dinner.  Chicago pizza is awesome. 

A quick family picture in front of the famous Chicago sign on the way to the car.  Those were five tired kids.  

 The next day Marlena made Rockstar a birthday cake before we headed out to the airport.  A happy birthday indeed!

It was such a fun trip.  Now that Marlena moved away we need to find another good reason to go back to Chicago.  Shouldn't be hard, the pizza is reason enough...