Emma’s Senior Ball

Hello everyone…I wanted to share some photos of our daughter Emma’s senior ball with you. The gown (unbelievably gorgeous), the hair, the bling… etc.

She looked so beautiful! She found her gown on Bon Ton on-line. The moment she saw it, she knew this was the one.

First we will start with the hair. Believe it or not, the curls for her up-do were done with the hairstylist using a straight iron…by spinning it in circles…Who knew? Here she is “before”… during her hair appointment.

She wore a simple headband with a single row of crystals along it. Here is Emma’s finished up-do.

Then there is her nails and the “bling”. She chose to wear a beautiful vintage bracelet that belongs to her grandmother, my Mom.

I did her make-up…The primary colors in her gown were purple, light green and blue…So I did green on her lid, purple above that and added blue in the crease.

You can also see the gorgeous earrings she chose in this photograph too.

And here she is…“the finished product”.

 

Here is the back of her gown.

 

Here she is with her Daddy. She looks so much more like her father than she does me.

(You’ll get the goatee and mustache eventually Emma. In due time!)

See…(Never mind the fact that I did nothing with myself the entire day and that I look dead compared to her tan skin.)

 

The front of her gown was all beaded. I had to shorten the halter 2” because she has her father’s breasts, and couldn’t hold the gown up with what she has…or should I say hasn’t.

Notice the small scar right next to her eye in this next picture? Not so funny story behind that! When she was about three or so, she had just gotten out of the bathtub and was all wrapped up in a large towel…She was jumping up and down on the bed while I was looking for something in the dresser. Well she fell off the bed, on to the open dresser drawer and her head bounced off the corner of the bottom drawer! An inch or two over and she could have lost her eye! I still see it happening to this day! Amazingly enough, there wasn’t a drop of blood…just a deep puncture wound that the Dr’s decided not to try to stitch up, as that would have been more traumatic than just bandaging it.

It’s amazing she has even survived to attend this ball, considering that she is the type of kid that would run from a bee right in front of a bus!

Gotta love her!

Excuse the un-mowed lawn…We have had nothing but rain here!

 

This year, she went with her best friend Sam. This girl is a peanut…I mean tiny! Adorable too. I mean Emma is a size 1/2…and Sam is even smaller!

Here is a picture of the two of them before the limo arrived.

And in front of the limo.

I took this picture of the limo driver and told him… “Now I know who to look for if anything happens to my kid.” I think I scared him…and Sam. He said I could find his picture in any Post Office, so I felt much better after hearing that!

Here a just a few more pictures of Emma and her friends enjoying their night.

 

She and her good friend Val.

(Oh Mom…enough already!) I know, I know.

Ironically enough, this boy’s mother and I grew up right across the street from each other.

And just a few more pictures she took while at her senior ball.

Her friend Emily…Hard working, intelligent…just a sweetheart.

She and her friend Becca. Becca got best hair in their class.

Emma and her good friend Melissa. Melissa was recently in a terrible accident this past winter while on a ski trip through the ski club at school. She somehow veered off of the trail and hit a tree. She suffered head injuries and a compound fracture to her arm. Thankfully, she doesn’t remember any of it and is doing wonderful.

So that’s it…My baby graduates soon and will be attending a local Christian liberal arts college. She will be studying nursing and wants to become a surgical nurse.

Her father and I are so proud of her.

Always remember Emma…One of life’s greatest lessons to learn, is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn.

Congratulations baby…The world is at your fingertips!

Sincerely,

Debra   (a.k.a. ~ Mom)