At last the long awaited Winter Formal pictures! Before the pics though you have to hear my rant. I know winter formal is not at all about the parents, but what a night I had. Jim, Em, and Mel will appreciate this. First we (Colleen and I) had to pick up the fire pit from Sarah's house (at the beach) for the after party. We drove to Veronica's (in Mandarin) to drop it off and pick up some of the kids in Colleen's group. The group was huge, 40 some kids. We drove to Timaquana Country Club (on the other side of the river) for pictures. This is a beautiful country club overlooking the St. John's river with magestic views of downtown Jax. However, it was dark out so don't know why we had to go all the way there, anyone's house with Christmas decorations would have done nicely. It was totally chaotic at TCC, there was another huge group of kids taking pictures as well, juniors (ack, seniors cannot be seen with juniors) and they had a party bus, totally cool. Obviously a parent was involved in planning that group. Then we had to carpool to Five Points. Two limos were picking up the group after their dinner at a restaurant there. The idea being it would be cheaper; good intention, bad plan, too much driving. I think it was a wash. Anyway, back through downtown and out to the beach. I met up with Robyn and Randy Riegler at Ruth's Chris for a much needed glass of wine and some dinner myself. As you young people know, it is a lot of organizing, preping, driving, and they only stayed at the dance for 30 minutes. That's right 30 minutes! One more dance to go....prom!
Okay, here are the pics. Everyone looked great and they all said they had a fun time. Which is, afterall, the point!
Okay, here are the pics. Everyone looked great and they all said they had a fun time. Which is, afterall, the point!
Colleen and her date - Bradley. (Melissa, note
the sneakers.)
Mel and her date, Shubert with Colleen and Bradley.
The Farn Family (aka Fearsome Foursome), Haley, Colleen, Mel, and Sarah.
Group Shot
2 comments:
SOoOOOO cute. I LOVE the dress (and the sneakers.... now was this my type of "boy friend" or Em's? haha)
Looks like you had a blast! And Mom, its the COOL thing to do to only stay at the dance for 30 minutes. Its not about the dance anyways, everyone knows that!
Also, the trees looks good!! A bit on the small side, but well done with the decorations. Looks like its still sunny down in Florida. I miss the palm trees!!! I showed all of my friends here and they balked at the idea of christmas in florida (ie they made fun of the contrast... pine tree and palm tree, ha).
Tell them they shouldn't knock it until they try it! I love xmas in FL, sunny, warm, golf, walks on the beach, being outside.... what's not to like?
Can't wait to see you!
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