Mackenzi's First date and First Dance!

In my last post I feel so horrible but another huge part of the summer was that Mackenzi turned 16!!! Yeah, I think I blocked it from my memory. Hard to let your baby be dating and driving! No really, she turned 16 in June and by September and filling in the whole summer I missed it on the BLOG sorry Kenzi!!!!
I am so proud of my Mackenzi, she is so sweet, smart and fun! As of now, she is loving history, loving life, having a great time as a sophomore, is doing great in school and wants to go into law! Sounds pretty good to me!


So the big event........
The doorbell rings and Lo and Behold there is a 20 lb sack of flour on the porch which has a note attached to "go through the flower and there would be a note!...... "


Chandler comes to the rescue and helps look..........for the said "note..... "
Okay, now everyone has pretty much given up (Brendan and Paige are there, chuckling in the background, giving no help whatsoever!!!) and Mackenzi starts to get a little worried, I mean like almost an hour of searching has taken place.....whew......

Mackenzi begins texting for help of who the said "note"is from, getting a little more nervous......

When Lo and behold ,

the doorbell rings again, there on the porch, lie actual FLOWER the "note" was in....asking her to the homecoming dance.

I know!..What actually happened to just ASKING a girl to the Homecoming dance, but such is the time of dance goings on...

So.......the hunt for the perfect dress begins, and I am thinking "Oh, how bittersweet, I have dreamed of this for so long, we are going to have such a GREAT day" NOT!!!

Chandler came along for the GREAT day as well!

Dress #1, I loved it! Kenzi said "NO!"

Dress #2, I picked this from the rack and really loved it, Kenz would barely come out of the dressing room in it, salesgirl and me loved it, Kenzi said "Definitely NOT!"

Okay so I am figuring out that me and her have quite different taste in dance dresses, I like flow, bling and pink, she HATES pink, purple, blue, any sort of bling and I mean not even one little sequin, no frill!"

Dress No 3, Me: " it's okay I guess, but I like the others better"

Mackenzi : " this is okay, but I want a black dress!"

Black dress # UUUMMM 10? I forget!

Now the frustration and stress is starting in....

Are we having fun yet?!!!!!

So maybe we should switch colors and maybe go long?..........

Roman toga could maybe work????

Help, Help we are dying! CANNOT FIND DRESS!!!!

BUT...........

Lo and Behold a miracle occurred and we found the perfect dress! We both loved it! It was so flattering on mackenzi and I was just glad we didn't have a major meltdown!

So........drumroll...............please.........the dress!!!!!!

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Okay, I know............

she is so stinkin cute! Jill came out and took pictures and when i get them Ill post the rest they really show how pretty the dress is.;; Thanks Jill!!!

On we go....

The Date .......How pretty is that corsage?

Date being extra brave for the big "Pinning" on of the boutonniere

Okay, so who teaches how to exactly pin this thing on..... I mean I had to take over, thought I was gonna draw blood, pins were poking out everywhere, flower was floppin around,, I don't know this was never brought up in home ed... I don't ever remember doing it, moms do it, but how do they learn?, Well if you know, give me a heads up for next time will you?

AAHHH! How cute!!!!

All in all, it turned out great! Another BIG event in my life and one of my kids, down in the history books! I think we did okay!

Love you baby!!!!