Sophomore Winter Formal 2022

Bryce and Caleb went to Winter Formal this year. They are always last-minute kind of guys on deciding plans, so Caleb had finally made his final decision to go just a week and a half beforehand. I had already been out shopping with Bryce and Bree for his outfit and I knew that the stores were picked over on mens formal clothing. Bryce had ended up finding a black slim fit suit that looked really nice on him and he went with a blue shirt and bow tie to match Bree's dress. Caleb wanted to do a suit also. We went to Kohls and found a jacket that fit him which is not easy since he needs a long. They didn't have the matching pants though, but they were available online, so we ordered those. We were feeling pretty accomplished about having out shopping done. Until a couple days later when the pants came, and they weren't the correct ones to go with that jacket. I panicked a little because we were now at 4 days until the dance. I had commitments the next 2 nights, so I sent Caleb to Emsuds (the men's clothing store where they are amazing), I told him to ask for the cheapest suit they had. He returned 30 minutes later, and he had picked out a suit, by himself! The pants had to be hemmed, it's tough to find pants that are a 32x36, so he had to pick it up on Thursday before the dance. I was so relieved that it didn't even matter that it was more expensive. Both boys looked so nice! They clean up pretty good. 

Caleb had to make sure that everyone knew he was the taller brother. 

Bryce has a girlfriend now which is a whole new thing to our lives! It seems so weird and yet Robb and I met when we were a year older and got married eventually. Her name is Bree and she is really sweet. They are both crazy about basketball and that's how their friendship started was by shooting hoops at the Y. She has been over to our house a handful of times and Bryce is over at her house a lot too. 

They looked so nice together. They both like cool shoes so they wore their Jordans instead of dress shoes. That was a brilliant move on Bree's part because heels are brutal. Bryce even remembered that he needed to buy her a flower and told me what to order. 

I had contacted Nancy, that owns the wedding barn across the street to see if we could do pictures there. The original plan was to do outdoor pictures, but the night was freezing, and it gets dark so early that using the wedding barn was perfect!

Is it even a get together unless someone gets picked up for a picture. Bryce was voted easiest to pick up. Left to Right (CJ, Brody, Caleb, Noah)

Bryce and Bree went as a couple and there was one other couple that went with this group, otherwise it was just a group of friends. They all seemed like great kids, and it was funny to hear them banter back and forth with each other. 

These boys are going to pass us both up in height!

They have already passed up grandma and grandpa. Thanks Bob and Susie for helping me as I frantically tried to pull together snacks, drinks and clean our house to host the boys while they were getting dressed up. I guess I should just know to prepare for the unexpected because they aren't great at making plans much before the plans are actually starting. As Susie reminded me, they are only this age once. Make the most of it. Keeping that in mind we let them stay out until 2am at the after party at Claire's house and then they had the guys sleep over at our house.