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Homecoming Week!

fun, fun week at our house...

The Murray Associated Girls sponsored the Powder Puff Flag Football game where the Senior girls played against the Junior girls. Since Kyleigh and Emma are M.A.G. officers they got to help plan the activity. Emmsie got to be down on the sidelines taking pictures.  Kyleigh played football! With a bow in the hair! {of course} and she also helped plan the "Men of Sparta" halftime routine......

Blast from the past! {y'all can stop laughing now...} THE HAIR! I know.  This is a picture of me and one of my bestest friends {still to this day} on our way to play the flag football game OUR Senior year. On the back of the photo I wrote...Wed. Sept. 20, 1989 Homecoming Week... Powder Puff Football game.. Sr. "Buff Puff's vs. Jr. "Black" Oh gosh! 24 years ago, almost to the day. {The nostalgia in me made me almost cry.} I got to wear #11 my favorite number, because my all time favorite BYU football player "Bellini" was #11, thus the sweat towel with that name tucked in my pants. It was also one of my nicknames my friends gave me. My maiden name is "Bell" so it worked. Plus my teenage self was certain back then I was going to marry him! Ha!

Tons of Sr. girls came out to play....Kyleigh was able to actually get some playing time. The quote of the week was when the Sr. coach, who was overheard telling another Sr. girl {who was questioning whether she had the skills to play flag football}..."If Kyleigh Cooper is playing, anyone can!" 

These are the "Men of Sparta" boys...Kyleigh and a few other drill girls held a couple of practices and taught them a spoofy dance number to perform at halftime.

Thursday night was the pep assembly, "Spartan Spectacular", where Kyleigh performed. 

Traditional burning of the "M"

Emmsie with some of her friends...

BAAAAHHH! If you only knew half the story with THIS picture here............I'll leave it at that!.... 

This kid, who is in our ward, coached the Sr. girls in their football game Wednesday night. ;) He and Ky are buddies. 

The Homecoming game! SO FUN! Kyleigh performed at halftime...

Dad took a panoramic shot of our new football field just recently finished...it. is. awesome! Wish the outcome of the game would have been.  

This year Kyleigh has gone to every football game...home or away..She is one of their biggest supporters. {I'm sure of it.} Either before or after EVERY game she and her girlfriends deliver treats to their closest football buddies.

The culmination of Homecoming Week.....

THE DANCE!

So... 

a week before school even started...as in Aug 19th! this was left on our porch. Kyleigh was out with friends so we called her and waited for her to cruise home to find out WHO had left it....

I would "BURST" with "JOY" if you went to HOMECOMING with me. She had to find the initials to his name on the starbursts...

I caught Kyleigh and her girlfriends on video pulling in the driveway and running up to the porch all giddy and squeal-y like....hilarious! I couldn't post the video though! Too much damaging evidence in regards to Kyleigh's current mystery crush {Zorro or boy #6! we call him...although she'd be quite happy to retire all the other boy's numbers from way back when and put him as #1..haha}

When asking or answering back to these dances she really tries to personalize it for the person so it means something to them. Guys could probably care less, but we care! :) The boy that asked her works for a hot air balloon company, so she answered him back with her own hot air balloon inspired theme, with the bucket saying YES.

So this year's Homecoming drama pales in comparison to last years. Thank goodness! Although we did have a minor hiccup. I think I've mentioned before that Kyleigh does not post much of anything on social media. {Just not her thing.} Most teenagers do though, and it seems that is how word gets spread on who has asked who to the dances, etc.  Well, we've decided she needs to have her friends start posting FOR HER cuz we had another repeat of PROM with the double asking!  A kid in our Stake, on the night of the first day of school, asked her to the dance with this cute dog. 

Poor guy! Obviously didn't know she had already been asked.  She took care of it right away and answered him back the very next night. 

It was raining!!!! So on his porch she set out a new umbrella with the dog he gave her underneath it. The note said "DOG GONE IT," I've already been asked to Homecoming.  Can I have a rain check please? She left a little dog inspired treat too.  

THE DAY OF...

So.... here she is with her date. The day date started at 8:45 in the morning, in their p.j.'s. They went with a huge group, had breakfast, and then went to Boondocks, like everyone else did. {she is not a fan of that place.} She didn't get home til 3:00. She had two hours to get ready and then he was back again....When all was said and done this was a 13 hour date! I say OVERKILL. {she would agree.}  

THE DRESS....totally going school spirit with the orange....

Big dance fell on big game day....{that's a whole other post} Painted her toes blue in honor of it...

                     
Such a super, nice kid.
He even asked what time we wanted her home.

They went to some kid's rich grannies house for breakfast, pictures, a catered dinner and for the after activity...

 What a crazy week for her. Even the day after there was no time to recoup. She had to work an 8 hour shift!...She's like one of those Energizer batteries that just keeps going, going, going....