Homecoming

 We are still getting used to the idea of being WDM Tigers instead of Ankeny Jaguars, but a week of homecoming celebrations helped a lot!

As a member of the Jordan Creek Lighthouse Leadership Committee, Emma walked in the homecoming parade!

The rest of us caught candy. 

It was such a cute little parade- just WDM school groups and sports and the band and lots of candy!

And Emma!

And the WDM Tiger. 

Leah and Daddy went to a homecoming game... it just happened to be for Ankeny to support Leah's bestie Sarah in the marching band while Adam was at Ben's birthday party. 

And Leah went to the homecoming dance!

We had lots of conversations about the differences  between a school dance and a stake dance, from the types of music to the types of dancing to the types of people, but she was excited and curious to check it out with some of her new school friends Erin and Cam. 

Who doesn't want to get dressed up and be fancy for a night? 

It was super surreal- high school homecoming for our baby?!

Emma was curious about it all, too. :) 

This cute little group ate dinner at one of the girl's homes, then headed over to the dance which, according to Leah and some adult chaperones that sent me a few updates throughout the night, was loud, dark, and hot. There wasn't a single slow dance to even think about being asked to dance with a boy, and there were tons of kids there all having fun and being silly and probably a bit stupid, as high schoolers do. 

She came home happy and tired and said that the takeout Olive Garden and the getting fancied up- she found the perfect modest dress online and ended up rocking my wedding shoes with it!- were the best parts of the night, and that she much prefers the fun and friends of stake dances.  And now she knows a little more about what homecoming is all about!