Prom 2011

We ordered a dress about a week before anyone asked her.  We ordered it too late.

Prom was last Saturday and the dress still hasn't arrived.

That's okay, though.  She still looked beautiful in the dress she wore to Preference and I am certain that she will have an opportunity to wear the new dress next year.  Maybe for Homecoming or Preference.

She was asked to Prom by a boy in her math class named Seve Trevino.  That is actually a nickname, short for Sevestian and it is pronounced "Sevie".

Their 'day date' was breakfast at Kneaders and the Holi Festival of Colors at the Hare Krishna temple in Spanish Fork.  It is a celebration of Spring where participants throw colorful chalk (replacing the ground flower petals of 5,000 years ago) at each other.  This is a big deal locally, and more than 30,000 people attended this year.  Helena came home from it VERY colorful and seemed to have a good time.

I met Seve when he picked Helena up for the day date.  He seemed very stiff and didn't smile even once (I never did see him smile).  I felt like he was extremely nervous and wondered if it was his first time meeting his date's parent(s).  When he came back to pick Helena up for the evening, I did the standard mom taking pictures routine.  No smile again.

 
They were in a Prom group with Seve's friends, whom Helena did not really know.  They went to dinner at Olive Garden.  The prom this year was held at the Sleepy Ridge Golf Course club house.

It's beautiful, isn't it?  I always felt bad for the school gym sort of prom.  It sort of makes dressing up in a fancy ball gown pointless if you are just going to be dancing on the 3 point line under a bunch of crepe paper streamers and the home team scoreboard.  A building like the golf clubhouse looks like just the sort of place to wear a fancy dress!

Helena said she had a nice time, though apparently Seve talked a bit too much about video games and not enough about things that interest Helena.  This was their first date, and according to Helena, their last.  She still thinks he is a nice kid, if a bit weird.  Today she told me that he asked her if she would be his 'girlfriend'.  She tells me she let him down gently (my words, not hers) by telling him she didn't have time for that sort of thing since she really needs to focus on school right now.  His response was to ask her if they were still friends, though?

Ahh!  High school!  Does it ever really change?

In the meantime, if you are reading this and you have young boys to raise...

Will you make sure, when the time is right, that you teach them how to meet and greet the parents and how to hold lively conversations with their Prom date?!?