Weekend Promenade

This girl... 

 

I love her to pieces!  

I got up early Saturday and had already eaten breakfast when Meri came swooshing in and said, HEY!  Let's go to Ryan's pub and have breakfast there!  

 

I had just eaten...  AND I still had a little bit of work to do on her dress, IF she wanted it to be done for prom, I mean...  I was down to hand sewing on a button, the lining to the zipper and then pull off the three pounds of thread bits.  Oh and press it.

So I took it along with me and while I hand stitched the lining to the zipper, enjoyed a caffeinated beverage while Meri ate a full British breakfast.

This is hers.

The main reason she wanted me along was to pay for the flowers (she was getting paid back half from her date later) and to have me along to pay for some hair supplies.  We got a new curling iron!!  I guess I get to curl my hair some time...  As it IS mine...

When we got home, I started in on her hair.  It took a full hour plus some to get curls in all of it.  The last 20 minutes of it, one of her friends came by and waited patiently for Meri to do HER hair.  So I styled Meri while she started in on Emily's hair.  Meri didn't have much faith me me but after I toyed and teased her hair a while, I had her check my progress.

"Glue it on with hairspray and we're done!" she said.

WHEW!

Then Meri ran to another friend's house for her make up but I waited at the house for some cinnamon rolls to show up. yum...  They were for the breakfast the next morning.

Once they arrived, I headed over to watch Meri get prettied up.

Then back home for me to finish ironing her dress.  What a rush of a day!

"Mom... MUST you document everything????"  We headed to the photo shoot at the park.

 

Almost forgetting the flowers in the fridge.

 She chose orchids, the most expensive of flowers...

 

Here is her group.  What a great bunch of kids!

 

I needed some solo pics of the projects too.  They'll probably accompany the outfits to the fair.

 

Briar looked dashing...

Remind me never to wear this shirt again...  But we got a mother/daughter pic in anyhow.

 

The girls...

 

The guys...

 

Then they all headed off to a fancy schmancy dinner where Meri had made the reservations.

She's growing up too fast!

 

I met up with them at the Grand March later.  Briar's jacket got commented on by the MC!

 

But the kid (was Gaston in the B&B play) behind Meri!  His suit was WOW.  Red, White and Blue.  The MC actually bowed the "I'm not worthy" stance for him when he walked in.  WOW!

Just before the dance, I caught up with Meri and Briar again.  What a dashing couple!

 

And this is Briar's cousin, who came over after the after-prom also.  She was fun!

 

At 3am, I set the alarm and got up to pop a breakfast casserole in the oven, then went back to sleep until the timer went off.  Then made waffles and pancakes for the kids.  Hardly any of them ate any waffles, but Briar's mom's cinnamon rolls were a hit and so was the breakfast casserole that the mom of the above girl, sent.  I also had bacon and fruit and they were pretty popular too.  So I've got several waffles and pancakes in the fridge.  Leftovers are always good.  I may even dig into waffles for lunch today!

The kids were all bleary eyed but still excited about the dance and everything.  It was fun to hear all the stories and their takes on everything.

Anyway, that was prom.  The fire didn't kill the weekend. YAY!