Matt and I graduated from Berean in 2005.
We started dating our senior year.
I had a lot of growing up to do, and Matt patiently waited for me to figure most of it out before he started dating me.
He had told his mom that he was going to marry me someday...
That was while I was dating someone else...but he still knew.
And never gave up, he just waited.
I love that!
At Berean, we have two special banquets.
There's a really formal one,
And then there's Jr./Sr. banquet.
When we went there, they always came up with a theme, and then we dressed according to it.
Our Senior year was Tom Sawyer.
Now...
We're teachers.
That means...
We went back to Junior/Senior Banquet...
Teacher Style.
Awesome!
I have to admit, I think it was more fun as a student.
That awkward date time...
Hours getting ready.
Sitting by all your friends...
That wonderful romantic fairy tale-like amazingness that covers the entire evening.
Teacher style, not so much...
Drop kids off at parent's house...
run home from a wedding shower with 5 minutes to get ready...
Squeeze into a dress you were sure would fit,
Wear an amazing necklace that makes squeezing into the black "out-of-dress-code" dress totally worth it...
Go pick up hubby at parent's house where he's frantically ironing his clothes since your iron is broken...
Have your nice sis-in-law help zip up the rest of your totally worth it little black dress...
Drive fast all the way there...
Get nervous when you walk in, hoping you look like a teacher's wife, but not too old looking, and still somewhat awesomely fashionable.
Then sit and watch all the little people eat, sit by their dates, look at the decorations...
And reminisce about when you were 17 and sat in those same chairs holding hands under the table and giggling with your friends.
5 years later, it's still pretty fun!
And...we got to spy on our brothers!
How awesome it that!
They are both seniors.
And were absolutely thrilled that we were there...
Really, they were.
I think.
Jake went with Kristen, a good friend.
She was Miss Berean.
Every time we go by Kristen's house in Elbing, Ellie informs me that's where the queen lives.
She's pretty funny!
No, that's not Matt's date.
That's Jason, the Bible teacher.
He didn't want me to put this on my blog, so I did.
They're weird together.
I don't get it.
Me and Mo!
She looked beautiful!
Matt and O.
They're weird together too.
After banquet, we went back to get the kids.
Ellie was ecstatic about all the seniors coming in with their princess dresses on.
She went crazy...have I mentioned before that she likes people?
She was in heaven and greeted everyone at the door by name and then promptly went in with the girls to change, and somehow got them to give her gum, and take her potty.
After she said goodbye to each person, we went home.
What fun, old married couple memories!
