Prom time!

Yesterday Hannah and I went shopping with my mom. We started out at a nice little shop in Collin Creek Mall. Hannah was less than enthused about all the embellishments on all the dresses.
When Hannah was little, I dressed her in dresses all the time. As she grew, she liked dresses less and less. She became a "tom boy" by 6th grade.


Hannah spotted a dress that wasn't overly embellished. It was a dark forest green. We chased down the cute little asian lady that was tending the store. I said "She'd like to try this on, but we aren't sure on her size." The little lady circled behind Hannah, placed her hands on her ribcage, waist, then hips. She announced rather loudly, "ohhhh you a laahhhhge". Hannah looked at me with disgust in her eyes. The little lady walked over to the area where more sizes of the dress hung and announced even louder "ohhhhh.. we no have a laaahge, you try extra laaaahge?"
Hannah turned to me and said flatly, "I want to go somewhere else, right now."

We tried Dillard's, Foley's, and Macy's. No luck. We went into Claire's because my mom needed to pick up something for one of my nieces. We saw a girl working there that was about the age of 20. My mom asked her where in the world to find a good selection of prom dresses. She mentioned Whatchamacallit Fashions on Preston, in Dallas. We got there and it was like a dance club with dresses of every color and style imaginable hanging on the walls. There are some dresses out there that I really have to wonder wht the designers were thinking. Hideous. Seriously. At first Hannah was trying to stick to just trying on dresses of orange, pink, or green. She wanted something that would be very girly since she is usually anything but girly.
Here is the first dress she tried on. She was less than impressed that I had a camera whipped out.

Here's a mossy green one that I found that was going to need some serious repairs before leaving the store. There were a lot of sequins missing.

I had to beg her to try on a lavender dress. I've always thought lavender looked amazing with her blue eyes. I almost sobbed when she opened the door. She didn't like the way it fit her chest.

Being laced into a very barbie pink dress.

Another two shots of the barbie pink dress that became a contender in the battle of dresses.


The contending dresses.

Nana and Hannah discussing the two contenders.

Hannah calling her best friend Megan to discuss the dresses, ask for direction.

Shopping for dyeable shoes.( I thought the converse off to the side was ironic.)

Here's the winner. It's champagne. Not gold. I think it'll look great with her hair that she just dyed a very dark brown.

A sunday drive...

On Sunday I found 2 free hottubs. One on http://dallas.craigslist.org/ in Corinth, and one on Plano's freecycle, in Anna.

We left Heather and Crista to babysit the youngest two, Misty and Bethany. We took Hannah with us because we figured it would take the strength of three to lift the tubs onto the trailer we had borrowed from Marty, a close friend of Mark's.

It was a tight fit in Mark's little S10 pickup. Mark was driving, i was squished in the middle, with my body twisted and my legs pushed off to the right, next to Hannah's. Hannah was squished against the door. We were seated legally, all with seatbelts on. Thankfully, we had completely emptied the back of the pickup of all engine blocks, pistons, heads, carburators, and whatever else pieces of heavy metal that would have smashed in our heads upon impact.

We stopped at a stoplight in Princeton Texas. We were sitting for a good 10 seconds when I heard Mark say "OH SHIT!!!" Then the impact. My head flung forward and hit the rearview mirror. Then immediately flung back and hit the back window. I didn't even know I had hit the mirror. Most of the pain I felt was in the back of my head.

Anyway.. our friends trailer was pushed up under the backend of the truck. His car appeared unharmed, but apparently had a lot of internal damage. There was radiator liquid all over the ground. He had hit as at approx 60 MPH. That's quite an impact. I'm just glad Hannah wasn't in the middle.

Anyway... here's some pictures I took with the new camera I got. My old camera finally died. I got a newer model of pretty much the same camera. It's a Kodak with 6 mp. The old one was 2 mp. Mark still plans to buy me an slr, I just haven't decided whether to go with the Canon rebel xti, or a nikon d80, or better.

Here's the guy's car.

Two shots of the truck

Here's the guy's car going onto the tow truck, and some of the help that arrived. There were a lot of very nice and helpful paramedics, and policemen.