Jenny's Jabberings

Maunia turned 16, was finally able to go to Mormal, and was soooo excited to go to Mormal...now she just needed a date. Her friend Trent asked her to the dance and she was super thrilled. Unfortunately, I pointed out to Trent's mom that it was his Spring Break weekend and he would be in San Francisco with his dad so Trent had to back out :-( In stepped date #2, John. John showed up with a darling balloon bouquet and sunflower and asked her to Mormal. Once again elated to have a date she happily accepted.

John's family is Hawaiian so his parents planned a luau for 9 couples at their house before the dance. We got the dress alterations done (we had bought the dress 7 months earlier when we were in UT and it has been hanging in the closet just waiting for a date) made the hair appt., ordered the flowers and were all ready to go...and then...two days before the dance...John got the chicken pox :-( Down goes date #2.

Faced with 24 hours to find a date, things were a bit stressful. I started networking with other moms and the search began. This is a 4 stake dance so all the boys from Laguna Niguel, Rancho Santa Margarita, San Clemente and Mission Viejo were already going. We even branched out to a family friend in Yorba Linda but that didn't pan out. Finally late Friday night, the night before the dance, a friend called and said she had found a boy! He had been told of Maunia's situation and said he would be happy to take her.

The aforementioned luau obviously could not be held at the chicken pox house so we took that on as well. We had 18 kids over for dinner and pictures. It was so much fun. The day of the dance it was dumping buckets of rain and the wind was howling! The rain let up just long enough for us to step outside and take pictures. The wind was still blowing and the girls were freezing.

Mauia's date, Jake, was very shy and quiet....Maunia...is not haha. Poor Jake endured many, many, many pictures and was a very good sport about it. It was very sweet of him to step up at the last minute :-)

Here are the pictures of both of the invites, the pictures from the dance, and the very sweet thing Jake did for Maunia after the dance.

The first dance invite from Trent...it involved LOTS of locks :-)

She didn't send Trent an answer because we figured out the day after he asked her that he wasn't going to be able to go :-(

Invite #2 from Johnny

Her answer to John

Here is what the stuff in the basket said

I "skor"ed a great date (Skor bar)
My date "rocks" (pop rocks)
I am filled with "joy" (almond joy)
I'm so happy you're "take"ing me to Mormal (Take 5 bar)
It was so "sweet" of you to ask me (sweet tarts)
"She" is very excited (Hershey's bar)
We get to hang with our "peeps" at the dance (this one was my favorite haha, it was peeps on a stick LOL)

Then she had Easter eggs filled with sayings that included "egg".

I am very "egg"cited to go to Mormal with you
I am "egg"stremely happy you asked me
I was "egg"static when you showed up on my porch
I must say I have an "egg"ceptional date
It was "egg"cellent of you to ask me.

And finally here are the pictures from the dance...there are LOTS...you're welcome grandparents ;-)

I think poor Jake thought she was going to stab him

The rain let up just long enough to do pictures but it was super cold, the wind was really cold.

The peach tree made such a pretty backdrop. Jake is so tall haha. This picture is WITH her heels on. She wore flats to the actual dance.

Poor Jake, since he is so tall we kept saying, go down one more step, one more step, ummm, one more step until he finally just stood on the floor and tried to look all casual hahaha

I think in this picture he is wondering why on earth I am STILL taking pictures haha

What the heck are Andrew and Bryce doing LOL

Haha, love this picture, I love how Jake and Ashley are trying to be all normal and just smile with all the other weirdos haha

How cute were Tommy and Ally...

The shoe picture of course :-)

And just to be fair...

The luau dinner

The "prop" pictures. Those girls loved them monkeys!

What a beautiful group of girlies <3

Andrew competing in the well known sport of...palm tree javelin

Lisa had decided not to give the leis to the girls since they all had flowers already but the girls decided they wanted to give them to the boys. They had already been at pictures and dinner for 2 1/2 hours at this point so they were kind of done. This is the most normal picture I could get.

I realized at the end of the night I didn't have any really great pictures of Maunia's dress, but it was almost 1 am, she was exhausted...and goofy...and highly uncooperative...

This is the point of the night where I just gave up

Here's the dress...it was gorgeous

I came home Monday and found these on the doorstep. I was so excited...but they weren't for me, they were for miss Maunia :-) Jake sent her flowers to tell her thank you for going with him and that he hoped she had fun. It was very sweet.