Sweetheart 2012

 

Kelsey was asked to her very first High School dance on Valentines day.  She found this vase on our front steps when she came home from a youth activity. We are not really sure how they stayed in tact because the dog was outside. She is lucky he didn’t eat the flowers and candy.

After dumping out all the candy she pieced together the valentines to find the message below.

First Dance!

She also got a bouquet of flowers from “Alexandria” for Valentines.  Two bouquets in one day!! No word yet on the new name her dad will be giving to Tanner. I’ll keep you posted.

The day of the Sweetheart dance, she had to work from 8-4. So I picked her up and dropped her off to go bowling. Then she took a quick shower at her friends house and I met her there with her dress.  I loved helping her with her hair and makeup.  She is so incredibly beautiful. I couldn’t narrow the pictures down to just one so get ready for a model shoot.

                                                  

I took this picture when she wasn’t expecting it. When I pulled the picture up later I gasped!  She looks like she is 18 going on 25!!! YIKES! This growing up thing is speeding up it seems.

Kelsey and her friend, Maria.

After the photo shoot, the boys arrived.

Maria and Tyler

Kelsey and Tanner.

No you are not seeing things….they are identical twins.

No worries, parents.  Jesus is watching over them.  

Seriously, she did not get her photogenic genes from me. She looks good in EVERY shot! (her date is pretty cute too.)

We gave her a midnight curfew and warned the boys that it had been snowing at our house so the roads up the mountain would be slick.  We got a phone call about 12:05am.  The road was so slick they couldn’t make it up our street.  Dad had to go out on a rescue operation.  But he slid all the way down the street, through the stop sign at the bottom and on down the next road before he was able to stop and turn around to go get Kelsey. She had a fun night and I love this time in her life. Even though it has some emotional up and downs, it is awesome watching her embrace life.