Homecoming Senior Year

Homecoming was Saturday September 19th.

Landon made a mix cd (my brilliant idea) to ask Erin to Homecoming.

The first letter of each song was a letter to his name. I thought he should have used songs that all had the word dance in the title but he just picked songs he likes. He left this on her porch one night.

Then she left this on our porch the next day...we had frozen peas everywhere!

Landon's Homecoming group rented these blow-up balls for their day date and hilariousness ensued.

Landon and his date Erin.

It was a super nice day outside and only 65 degrees but they were roasting in those things.

That evening I met them at a park near the restaurant they were going to so I could take pictures for everybody.

The light was fading but everyone was cooperative and cute.

The girls were all about posing like they were having the best time ever (their idea). 

The boys made fun of them.

Homecoming 2014!

Since Landon turned 16 back in August (which I still haven't blogged about) he was able to go to Homecoming. I began asking him questions about this as soon as school started, (i.e., who are you going to ask?, how are you going to ask her?, who do you think will be in your group? etc.).

Finally on September 1 when we were together at Pizza Factory for dinner (and him cornered) we got him to say who he wanted to ask to Homecoming. This felt like a big deal and meant that we could move on to the next phase which was coming up with a clever way to ask her. We discussed several ideas and then brainstormed about things they had in common or that she likes, and he mentioned that she's way into the BBC show Sherlock. Randy and I rewatched an episode that night (we like that show too) to freshen our memories and came up with a fun idea.

Fast forward 3 days later when it suddenly became urgent to actually follow through and make this invite happen (he texted me from football and asked me and Whitney to put the tiny papers in the pills so he could drop it off when he got home around 9:45). Five of the pills had blank papers in them and one had his name on it, he came up with the "Holmes-coming" which I thought was pretty cute.

This is how it looked when he left it on her porch. The tag on the box says "The Game is On" which is a Sherlockism.

Her response was some stuff tweaked from Sherlock as well so it was pretty cool.

The ticket.

The $20 corsage.

Landon wasn't super keen when I initially offered to take pictures of their group, but I reminded him that every body seems to do a full on photo shoot for dances...I said I'd be on standby in case he didn't get a better offer.

It was fun seeing them all in action, they're so cute.

Landon's cute date Ashley is from our ward.

This is one of their silly shots.

The boys.

I don't even know how this strange shot came about.

How adorable are those yellow boots?! 

I don't think he started the date expecting to do this.

Isn't the beaded bracelet corsage cute?

Landon and Parker have been friends since they were little (maybe age 7).

I love their friendship.

One last shot.