Homecoming

While we were at Peach Days, Brooklyn's BFFE asked me if he could get into my house sometime that day.  I knew right away what those words meant.  He wanted to ask her to Homecoming.  He made a cake and in the cake put the paper asking her to go with him. 

And this was how she answered:

After that we went on the hunt for her Homecoming dress, shoes, jewelry, etc.  There are only two places to find dresses in St. George...not counting the expensive Bridal and  Prom shops.  One is Debs in the mall, and the other is a consignment shop called Closet Revival.  We went to Debs first and the dressing rooms were full of girls from Brooklyn's school all coming out in the same dresses.  Closet Revival didn't have anything she liked.  So we decided we would need to take a dress from Debs and make it her own.  She has always loved black and red so we bought a black dress.  We bought a red rose from Walmart and glittered it up so we could put it on the dress.

We couldn't find any red shoes.  Brooklyn suggested we make them.  So we were off to the thrift store to see what we could find. We found a strappy pair of black heels for $4.00.  We bought some red paint and red glitter, and wah-lah...she had beautiful red glitter shoes.  We also put red glitter on some diamond rhinestone hair ornaments she liked.

She loved the combination and decided she also wanted to try something new with her make-up.  She wanted to do a cat eye with red lips.  She had fun learning and practicing this technique.  She then asked her friend Kenadie to help her with her hair. 

For the day date, they went cliff jumping at Sand Hollow.  This little mama was mildly, put that majorly, worried.  I trust her date to take care of her, but jumping off cliffs into lakes isn't always the safest activity.  There were three couples that went, and word was Brooklyn was the only girl to jump off the 30 foot cliff.  Great so I have the stupid, I mean brave, daughter!  She had so much fun and I am actually glad she had the opportunity to do that.  She has always been a little daredevil.

I wanted to take a few pictures of Brooklyn alone.  She looked so beautiful and I couldn't believe this was the same little tomboy of only a couple of years ago.

Christian came that evening to pick Brooklyn up.  They made a stunning couple.