Senior Highschool Homecoming

Ahhhhh, those were the days, carefree memories of Highschool Homecoming and to top it off our Senior year!!!! We began the Homecoming weekend with flying home with a 6:45am Friday morning flight from Utah, checking on work related issues, picking up last minute items for the last Homecoming Boutinere. I received a phone call from Brittany at 5:00pm that I needed to have his boutinere ready before they left for dinner at 7:00pm. So, thank goodness before I left town I knew basically what we were putting on his armband and just needed to put it all together. We were hot glueing the golf ball on the mum when Blake arrived to take Brittany to dinner with their group. Whewww, that was close!!! The next morning we were off and running! Brittany left at 7:30am to pick up Shipleys, as our bribe of course, to feed all our helpers at the school for Homecoming Decorations. David helped me load up both cars and then our Homecoming decorations Committee began working frantically until all the decorations were complete. It went pretty well since we had held 2 work parties previously to help prepare for the big day. I almost lost it though when I was told at about 10:00am that 400 German students were coming to the school for a "luncheon" held in the Commons (school cafeteria) where we were decorating and that everything needed to be moved out of the way in order for them to set up their tables. I was also told that one of the areas could not be decorated yet because they needed to use that area to move their ice coolers out for the luncheon. "What!!!" I said "You've got to be kidding me, who in their right mind would schedule a luncheon with 400 students on the same day we were trying to decorate for Homecoming for 1,000 students?" The reply was "Well, I did because I've never been involved with Homecoming". "I never knew it was this big!!!"the school counselor said. I then took a deep breath, knew there was nothing I could do and would argue later when I had more time and energy which will probably be never since I won't ever have to worry about this again!!! Can I say that with enough entusiasm so you understand....I WILL NEVER HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT DECORATING FOR HOMECOMING AGAIN!!!! I love you all but some things I truly will not miss. Anyway....back to our day. We finished everything by about 12:30, loaded up the cars and went home for a few minutes before the 4:00pm Salon appointments began. Dad and I decided to run to the grocery store before 4:00 to pick up all the breakfast food for our.......yes, you guessed it, our 2:00am post Homecoming Breakfast at our house. We were in line at the grocery store when Brittany called and said, "Mom, did you know that my appointment started at 3:15 and not 4:00?" I said "No, but I will meet you at the Salon". We were driving to the Salon and saw Brittany behind us so I quickly switched cars at the light. Brittany and I drove to the front of the salon and I told Brittany that I would park the car and she could just run in. I ran around to the driver's side found a park nearby and quickly ran into the Salon. I walked back to the area where they took Brittany so I could take my traditional pictures and was walking around looking at the Makeup Artist work on Brittany's makeup, taking pictures, and one of the Stylist (Lilly) came up to me and whispered in my ear "Miss Lisa, you have something on the back of your pants." I thought, what in the world could that be? I quickly walked into the restroom, and looked in the mirror and sure enough there was a huge, dark brown spot right in the middle of my bum about 8" long and 4" wide. (Yes, my one cheek is large enough for a spot that large). So, I proceeded to take off my pants to see if I could wipe it off. Thank goodness this was a large bathroom with 1 single toilet and a sink in the same room or I was going to have to explain my peculiar underwear. As I began wiping off this dark stain, I thought to myself, could this actually be dog poo? Or the other thought was, how could chocolate have gotten on my pants? I wiped off most of the stain and walked out to the salon area and Brittany began laughing. She knew exactly what it was. She then proceeded to remind me about the chocolate cake she brought home from work on Friday, and that the top was not on securely and while she was driving home the cake fell out of the container. And, yes you guessed it, the chunk of chocolate frosting is what was smushed on my right cheek. Sorry, to get so side tracked,I was talking about Homecoming. So, we rushed home after her appointment and Brittany's hair was so beautiful. Her makeup was gorgeous. Just as we pulled into the driveway, Blake arrived to pick her up for the game. She put on her hat and letterman jacket then off to the football game. Dad and I had just enough time to grab a bite to eat and go over to the school to turn on the lights to the decorations. After the game, Blake dropped Brittany off and she quickly transformed into a beautiful princess! Blake came back over dressed very handsome and Grandma and PomPom were there for the pictures. It was about 9:30pm and Dad and I were exhausted but we needed to cut up the fruit for our "after Homecoming guests". After we prepared the table and a few foods Dad and I decided to take a short nap. We slept for about an hour and then it was time to run up to the school at 1:00am to remove the decorations. This went pretty smoothly and around 1:30am we were on our way back home to make breakfast. Thank goodness with full tummies and tired football players everyone went home at about 3:00am so off to bed we went for a very short night! (Especially for Dad since he had an 8:30am meeting at the church) Well, that wraps up the Homecoming Weekend and on to the anticipation of the rest of the Senior year activities!

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It's not Halloween without the WITCH

How could you have Halloween without hearing the Witch! So, I was talking to Christy the other day about putting out all the Halloween/Fall decorations and I said "I don't know how much longer I'll be doing this because who am I doing this for?" Anyway, Christy talked me into it and said Mom, you have to do it, and anyway I love looking at them so, the rest of the tour is for you Christy since I really want to justify spending hours putting up Halloween decorations. Sorry about adding the new bedding but I told Christy I would show her our new bedroom too.

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CAN YOU SAY HOMECOMING?

Well, after rumors of Britt being asked to Homecoming by a new "friend" Blake seemed to perk up a bit getting a little worried Britt may go to Homecoming with someone else. So, we heard day after day then week after week he was going to ask. Believe it or not, we even found the Homecoming dress before he asked. But, after much talk, even from the Golf Coach and teachers Blake finally asked. Here is a picture of the roses he gave her and her cute dress we found. More to come on October 27th, the day of Homecoming.

THE BUTLER WARRIORS

I know, I know Jake reminded me I haven't blogged in a while. I've really been waiting for..... to ask Britt to Homecoming and do a blog on that but he's taking his time. So, thank goodness we had something today to blog about. Terri invited everyone over for Family dinner and before we ate we had a surprise visitor. Bryan saw it sliding down into the water so Kevin quickly grabbed his shovel then the snake slithered into the rocks to hide. I wish I had more room on my card to video longer because it was so funny watching everyone give directions....from across the pool of course. You will notice that Dad was the best instruction giver of all and was of course the farthest away until the snake was dead. But, nevertheless our big strong warriors won the battle and as you can see in the pictures were so proud of their trophy!

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A WINNING TOURNAMENT

We're off to a great start with the opening tournament for Clements Golf. It was the Katy Taylor Tournament held at River Ridge Golf Course. There were 32 girls with 10 schools represented. Brittany took 2nd Place as an Individual with 2 strokes behind 1st. She was tied for the low tournament score shooting 75. Clements girls Team won 1st Place 60 strokes ahead of 2nd Place. Unfortunately I didn't get my camera out in time for the announcement of her 2nd Place but you can hear the applause. Also, the Tournament Director didn't have the trophies ready so in their Team picture they're holding a "paper plate" in replacement of their trophy.

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DAVID'S ABC
A- Attached or single: attached
B- Best Friend: lisa
Cake or Pie: cherry pie
D- Day of choice: Friday. All work and no play.....
E- Essential Item: Driver, 3-wood, 3-pw, and a putter, someone to play with..priceless
F- Favorite Color: black
G- Gummi Bears or Worms: Gummi Bears
H- Hometown: Houston
I- Indulgence(s): Beach vacations with mom, any vacation with mom, being around and sharing our childrens lives, golf
J- January or July: July- I love the 4th, and hate the cold (ditto to Jake)
K- Kids: 10
L: Life is Incomplete Without: Family
M- Marriage Date: August 3, 1977 and we're still waiting to celebrate
N- Number of Siblings: 1 brothers (my name is Kevin) 2 sisters
O- Oranges or Apples: Oranges especially if it's juicy and cold on a hot day!
P- Phobias or Fears: MRI
Q- Quote(s): GOOD CHOICES EQUAL HAPPINES R- Reason To Smile: Watching my family all together
S- Season: Spring because the humidity is gone and its just getting warm enough to sit outside in the sun
T- Tag Three +: Brian, David (son),John,Josh,Brittany
U- Unknown Fact About Me: Called to Bishopric
V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: I love a great steak at Taste of Texas
W- Worst Habit: Procrastinaton
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: Give me a good MRI any day
Y- Your Favorite Food: Room service
Z- Zodiac: Cancer

ABC
A- Attached or single: attached
B- Best Friend: David
Cake or Pie: This is hard but I think I would have to say Chocolate Cream Pie
D- Day of choice: Sunday because I actually make myself not work and enjoy the day!
E- Essential Item: Big surprise...cell phone
F- Favorite Color: I love all colors but some color combinations are my favorite like ice blue and brown right now
G- Gummi Bears or Worms: Gummi Bears
H- Hometown: Houston
I- Indulgence(s): Ok so here it goes...all spa treatments,eating candy and popcorn for dinner at the movie theater, Eating Tomato Basil Soup at La Madeline in front of a roaring fire on a cold day (which doesn't happen too often), Beach vacation with David or any vacation at all with my family,Girls trips, Tennis trip with Kathy,Visiting the temple in a foreign land, There are a lot more but I better stop now.....
J- January or July: July- I love the 4th, and hate the cold (ditto to Jake)
K- Kids: 10 but actually only gave birth to 6
L: Life is Incomplete Without: Family
M- Marriage Date: August 3, 1977 and we're still waiting to celebrate
N- Number of Siblings: 2 brothers, 1 sister
O- Oranges or Apples: Oranges especially if it's juicy and cold on a hot day!
P- Phobias or Fears: snakes and scarey movies
Q- Quote(s): Poem...Footsteps in the Sand
R- Reason To Smile: Watching my family all together
S- Season: Spring because the humidity is gone and its just getting warm enough to sit outside in the sun
T- Tag Three +: I might be setting myself up for failure but I still would love to see their comments - David (husband),Brian, David (son),John,Josh
U- Unknown Fact About Me: I'm an open book and I think ya'll know me better than I do
V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: I love a great steak at Taste of Texas
W- Worst Habit: Impatience and saying yes too often
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: Ultrasound
Y- Your Favorite Food: Buffet breakfast at a resort hotel (who serves grits), anything sweet but especially Big Mama's brownies and Hot Apple Pie
Z- Zodiac: Pisces