Austin is going to Junior Prom!

So exciting! For me that is! (Not so sure Austin is that thrilled?)

He's a junior and at our high school (Yes, I said OUR because my kids go to MY high school), prom is HUGE! It's at the State Capital building and involves practicing a promenade with your date after school a few times and formal prom dresses and tuxedo's! The works! 

I told him he HAD to go. He MUST take a junior girl. (This coming from a girl that did NOT get asked to Junior Prom her junior year and never had the opportunity to be in the promenade! Boo.)

He hemmed and he hawed and he never asked anyone. THEN a girl asked him! (You go girl! I should have been so bold!) And he's thrilled because he doesn't have to foot the bill. (He did hit me up for a tux rental because when trying to persuade him to ask a girl I offered to take care of the tux!) So, Saturday we went to the tux rental place. For being a boy that feels he's "not a champ in the looks department" (his words, not mine!) and wears gym shorts and plain, white t-shirts to school 85% of the time, he had a definite idea about what he wanted in a tux. 

Go figure?

I -only having a daughter go to big fancy dates up to this point - was prepared with camera in hand to document our "first tux rental" experience. When we got there I asked Austin to smile at me -  in the car - to document the beginning of our adventure. He wrinkled up his eyebrows, looked at me in disbelief, got out of the car, abruptly said "No!" and walked into the shop. 

Hum...this is not how it was with Kambree.

We waited for a bit in the tuxedo store (nothing like waiting until the week before to go rent your tux) and then it was our turn. He had it all set in his mind exactly what he wanted. Which turned out to be the most expensive tux in the store! Really? (But compared to a girls formal? It was chump change!) Then they had him try on some generic pants for a waist fitting and a generic shirt for a neck, generic jacket to check for shoulder fit, and we were done. No parading around in different tuxes, trying out different styles, no ties to try out, no cumber buns to try on. Nada. So my pictures are lame. (Except that the pants he tried on were terribly short and he looked like a cross between Alfalfa and Urkel! Teeheehee!)

I will defiantly be getting some good shots on they day of the dance. (If he likes it or not!)

Why am I am excited about this whole affair?  Because parents are invited up to the Capital to watch the promenade and then dance one dance with their son or daughter. As mentioned, I didn't attend my own Junior Prom and I was in Ukraine during Kambree's (I do remember shedding a tear or two 1/2 way around the world- knowing I was missing this once in a lifetime event!) So, I am excited to go! In fact if it wouldn't be tacky - which it would - I would wear a formal myself! I'm sure I can hold my breath long enough to get one of Kambree's prom dresses zipped up!?
Sigh

However, I am sure Austin would never talk to me again.....