Homecoming.. The Sequel

Sorry it took so long for these pictures and the stories. I owe you some stories.

That day I got ready. Had curlers in my hair for a few hours. I was really excited to get into my dress and get all dressed up. My friends got to my house around 4:00.

Joe showed up first. His parents were really nice. We took tons of pictures.. I felt like a movie star. "Dahling, dahling, no pictures, please!"

Maddie and Ally arrived after some chatting. They looked so pretty. Maddie's mother was funny. She loved my shoes so much she took a picture of them!

We ate at Buffalo Wild Wings. My friend Aubrey met us there. We played the trivia games while we ate. It was so much fun. We were all laughing so much. We left Buffalo at 6 to get to the dance. The school isn't too far from BWW.

Everyone loved my sisters comic book shoes. I had a teacher even compliment them! The dance was lots of fun. The same teacher who loved my shoes was next to us with a lot of other teachers dancing. The song Pop, Lock, & Drop It came on. She thought they were saying "hot monkey, monkey" so now everyone says that to her while walking by in the hall. Funny stuff. After that song, a song called Shake It came on. Not a provocitive song, I promise. The conversation between her and another teacher when the chorus of "shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake it" came on was, "What are we shaking?!" "I don't know! Just do what the kids do!" Then they would raise their hands up & wave them around.

They had professional photographers there. Maddie, Ally, Joe, & I did the group picture first. The male photographer was hilarious! He would show us girls how to pose. He told me "I wanna see a little bit of dress here," because I was standing behind Joe. Then he told all of us girls, "Gimme some hip! I wanna see some sass!" We were cracking up. He told Joe to sit "like you're the man!" I'm sure the pictures turned out great!

A surprising thing that happened.. the fire alarm went off. Maddie and Ally and I had our purses and shoes under the table. I yelled to them, "Our stuff!" So we bolted over to the table. I was like, "Those shoes aren't mine! I need to go get them!" Haha. We were only outside for a little. I don't even think the fire department came. It was a girl in the bathroom with hairspray. I would have been so embarrassed if that were me! But hey, who else can say the fire alarm went off at their homecoming? All the people driving by got to see our cute dresses, too!

Home from a fun night after a few more songs. We were all exhausted!
This night will be a hard one to beat.

Halloween Costume

Love the bow on this dress!


That's the unprepared for a picture, picture.


My feet are sort of funny looking in this one. I think I might have lost my ballance.


Another foot pop, yo!


So that's my Halloween costume. My grandmother made it. Adorable, right? I bought the pattern on rustyzipper. It's a for real 60's pattern. My mother did my hair. She did such a good job. It stayed in all night, too.

I'm glad for the carnival. It was sort of a test run on the hair & make up & costume, for actual Halloween. I'm way excited!

Oh yeah! The shoes. Crazy story here, for ya. I didn't have shoes to match. Payless is having this crazy sale like always. Mother and I run over there 2 or 3 hours prior to the carnival that night. We're looking, looking, looking... "Alyssa, these sort of look like the dress pattern." I was worried they would clash if they weren't dead on. We ended up getting them for $8.. should have been cheaper because they were scuffed up & obviously been worn before & a little stretched. Then we noticed they were regular $22. Heck! We'll take them!

So I get home and we hold the shoes up to the dress. PERFECT!! How the heck did we pull that off? It was seriously insane. Everyone thought I covered some shoes with the same material. That's how dead on they were. They're super comfy and a really cute style, too.

I'm going trick or treating this year. I always say I won't but end up going anyway. We hardly get any trick-or-treat-ers to pass out candy to. I want people to see this costume! My nana did such a good job on this one. I said it beat my pirate costume (all time favorite). I'd show a picture but somebody never took a picture that year. We're all very depressed.

I'll let you know how trick or treating goes.

Wow. I had trouble spelling "goes" just now. Weird.

HOMECOMING

This deserved to be capitalized. I am so incredibly excited for homecoming tonight! I have the cutest dress. I have my hair in curlers right now and I got my nails done today. They're soooo cute, too. [:

My friends Maddie and Alyson and Joe are coming over in 3 hours. What to do to kill time until then? Blog!

They'll be here around 4. We'll take pictures and then go to Buffalo Wild Wings. Then the dance. Then we're going to my house to watch The Grudge. I've seen the second one, but never the first.

Doesn't this all sound so exciting? I know!

I figured my hair shouln't take longer than a half hour to do; my make up the same. Then 10 minutes to get dressed and such.

I'm bringing my camera and will definitely take tons of pictures tonight!

Wow. I wonder how many exlamation marks I've used in this blog. What do you think!?!?!?!?!??!?! [;

Twilight

I forgot that I was going to post this.



I drew the cover of Twilight for an art assignment. I did it in pastels. It was pretty hard & I didn't totally love doing it. I could have done much better on it if I spent more time doing it. I got a good grade, though!

Not much else to say. I'll post the ballet slippers I drew later. I also drew a few other things. I'm making a color wheel. I drew a sunflower with lady bugs on it for that assignment.

Hey Look Out For That Moving Van!

I ordered the pattern for my much anticipated 1960's Hairspray dress for my Halloween costume. I had a lot of choices. It was so hard to choose what style. The one from New Girl in Town? The blue plaid one with a collar? There were so many cute ones! I finally decided on this one. Not one in the movie but it's definitely 60's.



I like the polka dot idea. I'm going to go shopping with my mother for material tomorrow or Tuesday. Any ideas on the material? Give me any ideas you have.

Just an update on my upcoming events: I haven't forgotten to blog about my homecoming experience so far. I'm going to wait until the 25th, when I have pictures and such of actual homecoming.

For my 60's costume I'm also needing ideas for the hair. I can't really do it like Amber's in the movie because my hair isn't that short. Help, help! Any ideas.. and pictures would be awesome.

"A black guy would be awesome. But there's only like 10 black guys in Utah."
Name that movie!

Please Don't Crush My Soy Nuts

I think Mandy Moore is underestimated for her acting skills. Comparing her in Princess Diaries to A Walk to Remember, shes a very good actress.

I've been pretty into celebrities lately.

Miley Cyrus closed down Disneyland for her 16th birthday even though she isn't 16 until November 23. I thought that was pretty stupid. She also got a puppy. And what's up with her dating a 19 year old or something? This girl is going to mess up her life if she's not careful. I find it sad but hilarious at the same time. How bad of me, is that? : p

There's a concert here in town in a few days. It's only $8. Too good to be true for Lifehouse, Puddle of Mudd, Metro Station, Secondhand Serenade, Justin Nozuka, & Lenka!! I absolutely am going and I am so incredibly excited!! Lifehouse is the best on earth. Puddle of Mudd has a few good songs. Metro Station, I love (Miley Cyrus' brother is in that band.) Secondhand Serenade is great. Justin Nozuka has a beautiful voice. Lenka I've only heard one song of hers but it's really good.

Sounds fun, no?

Hmm. Poor writing today. I might edit this later.. just ignore the spelling & grammar and what not.

I've got some updates on the almost 16 year old girl's life. Just have to load the pictures on the computer as soon as I figure out how. Oh, speaking of which, that reminds me I need to finish making my birthday list! I'll post it on here.. just for your looking pleasure.. not that you need to buy me any of it.. [;