Prom Past and Present

My youngest cousin Kortney and her date.

Kortney and her friends, aren't they gorgeous?!!
L-R Taylor and his date, Nate and Rachel and Rachel's brother Greg and his date. Nate and Rachel are seniors this year and Taylor is a sophomore.
Then we have this lovely couple, from 1988! We look like babies!
My crowning moment! Mr. H needs a chair to see over my bangs!! Andy the King and I are dancing in the first picture. (these are from my old scrapbook) This is right out of my high school yearbook! Andy and I are with our Prom Court, the bottom picture is just the two of us. See, no crown, no roses and big hair!




Prom season is upon us and every weekend we see young couples going out to dinner before the big event, dressed in their finest, smelling their best, 100 bobby pins holding up that hair, well tanned bodies, giddy in love and enjoying this special night in their lives. I know I have told you before that Mark and I went to 3 proms together! Poor guy had to come home from college to take me to my senior prom! Mark knows I totally get all gushy and geeked up when I see prom couples. The other night we were in Applebees and he said, "oh boy Les, it is prom!" He knew I would spend our dinner checking the dresses out. Wow have they changed since I went to prom, they look more like the pretty little something I wore on our wedding night!

Our nephews both attended their prom a few weeks ago and my cousin Kortney also attended her prom the same weekend. I can't believe that they are now as old as we were back then, where does the time go? Nate is graduating this year and has been dating the swettest young lady, Rachel for about a year now. Taylor went with a friend of his and Kortney also went with a cutie pie. Boy does this take me back! Twenty years ago this week I was crowned Prom Queen of the Class of 1988, my goodness, do I feel old! Twenty years!!!! Two decades ago! 20 dress sizes later too! (ok not really but close, I was barely a size 1 back then! ) I pulled my old yearbook out this week, it just seems so strange that I hardly see any of those people on those pages anymore. I felt so honored to be chosen as their queen, my mom had always taught me to be nice to EVERYONE, and I guess it paid off. I remember when they called my name, I was in shock, I thought it would have gone to one of the couples up for it. Instead, one of the guys who was in one of those relationships won the King and I was the queen. We were good friends and he was a nice guy so I was happy for him as well, we had to share a dance, it was a bit awkward but I remember us both shaking from the excitement and both shared how honored we were. My Dad's really good friend was our Assistant Principal and he crowned me that night. Our Principal had been in trouble for conducting a strip search and so our AP was the acting Principal at the time. It was kind of neat that Mr. H. got to crown me being that he actually knew my family well. The teacher advisor in charge of the Prom came up to me immediately and apologized for the fact that my bouquet of roses were at home in her refrigerator, she asked for my address and told me she would drop them off the next day after my track meet. Sure enough, the next day, I arrived home late in the day and they were on our porch. So in our picture in the yearbook you can't see my crown because I had huge 80's bangs and it got lost in my hair, and I had no roses! So typical of the way things go in my life! I remember looking over at Mark while I was dancing with Andy (king) and he had the biggest smile on his face, he has always been so supportive of me! I remember going back to Mark's parents house that night after the prom and his brother Scott was still awake and he asked how our night went, I pulled my crown out of my hair and he congratulated me. My parents were really proud of me as well. My dad kept calling me Queenie. That was also the name of our first Irish Setter so not sure that was a good thing! I will always treasure my little crown and the honor I felt that night, it was very special to me. Here are a few pictures of the new prom and the old prom couples!