Homecoming Dance

Here are some pictures of Brendan and Caitlin going to Homecoming Dance. It was actually held at the school for the first time and they brought in all these giant video screens, a DJ and couches outside with a red carpet. Brendan said it turned out to be really fun. Only two more dances before he graduates..Sadie Hawkins and Prom..

I was thinking about it... both Emily and Brendan have not missed one single dance with their school ...and have gone to many dances with someone at other schools as well. Can you add up the money I've spent? LOL. It's funny because there is such a difference in boys and girls...Emily had to shop and shop to find that perfect dress, make an appt. at MAC for make-up, also have her toes and nails done, hair appt. for the day of the dance..get together early in the day and spend all day with all her friends so they could get ready together...

For Brendan... we went to Macy's (it only took one store)shopping for his shirt and tie to match Caitlin's dress on the Thursday before the dance and he already had black pants that he wore only once before so he wore those... He didn't even want to try it on and was annoyed that I had the lady measure him to make sure we had the right neck size at least..Funny! It was the first dance that he didn't need me to drive him or pick him up...it made me sad. :( They looked so cute though.

We all met at one of Brendan's friends house to take pictures of them and all their friends and the parents had a professional photographer set up in the backyard to take pictures and they are going to E-mail it to us. I also took this one there. Nice idea!







Doesn't he look thrilled? Apparently I was taking too many and he couldn't stand up straight anymore.. :)








Gary let Brendan take his car..how cute is he opening up the door for her? Awwwww....

Amy Concert

I went to see Amy Grant at the Mariner's Church in Irvine a few weeks ago...what a beautiful church! Amy re-released her Lead Me On CD, which was one of her best CD's and one of my favorites. She is on tour for this CD and her older music. It was such a great concert. She also put together her same band from that tour years ago..many who have gone on to solo projects and working with other musicians, for example, her guitar player from that tour is now Keith Urban's guitar player and he was there, which made my friend Crystal very happy..one step closer to Keith. LOL It was a long day but so worth it. We had soundcheck passes so we got to go watch that early in the afternoon and met some fun people. It was fun to see how they work out the "bugs" from the night before and rehearse parts over and over. They were all really funny. We also had passes to a pre-show party later in the evening before the concert. Amy sang a couple acoustic songs at that. The actual concert started at 8:00 and it was so good!!!. So much energy and so inspiring. It was fun to hear the older songs performed.

Soundcheck



Soundcheck

Pre-Show Party



Chris Rodriguez..for Crystal

Random Pictures

I have so many cute pictures that I just uploaded from my camera so I'm just posting some of them in no order





Emily and Caleb playing at the park.




I love this picture of Caleb trying to look over the top. He's so cute!





Lauren and Emily at Disneyland




Emily, Steven and Caleb at Disneyland on Monsters Inc.,



Steven and Caleb at Disneyland



Me and Emily on the new Toy Story ride at Disneyland with our 3D glasses



Angela and Caleb on the Toy Story ride at Disneyland

Brendan and Caitlin at Brendan's birthday dinner

Brendan's 18th Birthday Party

A month later I'm finally getting these posted...anyway, for Brendan's 18th birthday party we rented out the Youth Center and it turned out to be a great place to have a party (we actually reserved it already for Lauren's bridal shower in March). They have a great kitchen area. It's always scary to have a room that big and worry if enough people will come to fill it up. :) It was invite only and we had a list at the door to prevent uninvited guests and people just walking by coming in (which I was worried about) It was a great party and fun to see Brendan's friends...some that he's played hockey with for years...friends from school...some he's known since 1st grade....all grown up now. Everyone seemed to have fun. We had a DJ and gave them all glow stick necklaces or bracelets to wear while they were dancing where the lights were darker...they worked up an appetite... We had two 5 feet burritos and a ton of food and not too many leftovers so I was happy about that. I'm very thankful to my great friends for helping me at the party and also calming my nerves the whole week before. My baby is 18! I can't believe it. Emily will be 21 in January..Scary



Brendan and his crazy glow-in-the-dark glasses that he just had to have.



Emily and Jill taking a break from helping set up.



Brendan and Caitlin

He loves the movie cars and he loves the color green and this green and black went with his party color theme! Yes, it was an 18-year-old's party.LOL