Bunches o' Stuff

Heyo!

Were you wondering why I haven't posted in a bit? I bet you were. I bet you were just DYING to know what's going on in my life. Wellllll get ready, I have pictures. :)

1st: ORCHESTRA BANQUET!!!

If you didn't know, I am a cellist in the A-Town Symphony Orchestra. I am also the Social Chair for both Symphony and Philharmonic, so basically I make sure everyone's happy and plan parties! One thing that all the clubs do is this banquet, where they give out awards and have dinner and all the kids and parents that come just have a good time whilst dressed to the nines! This year's theme was "New York, New York" because our orchestra went to New York for the Orchestra trip this year (which was A.W.E.S.O.M.E.). Unfortunately, I didn't get many pictures of the set up by itself but mainly of people. But you can still tell, right? :)

 Some friends and the screen before we sit!

 halo! And my best friend's signature face <3

 That is my date and me. We sort of match, and we didn't even mean to! :D

 That's Mr. Lopez, our orchestra conductor. He's one of my favorite teachers, and really cool! He's talking about the seniors graduating right there.

 "Mr. Davis's Top 10 Reasons Orchestra ROCKS!"

 The Phantom... of the Laundromat? We didn't understand either, but it was funny!

 awards :)

Caleb, some other friends and I went to go eat FROZEN YOGURT afterwords, and also got our minds blown by dubstep!

2nd: PROM
    Prom, the major point of many high school girls and boy's lives. "Who will YOU take? What will YOU wear? And oh God, is she wearing the same dress?!" All these I was expecting to hear tons and tons of times, but really, when my boyfriend (who is a junior so he can go) asked me I was crazy excited. I didn't care that it was cliche or girly, I wanted to get dolled up and figure out why this thing is such a big deal.

 Me, in my dress... :D:D I basically cried when I first found it in the store. I had never felt so pretty wearing ANYTHING! It was a great reward for losing 60 pounds. :)

 candid shot. Probably my favorite. :)

 That's my BEST FRIEND! Don't we almost look like sisters? :D

 There's some other friends (sophomores) that had been invited to prom! We're switching colors!

 My boyfriend and his best friend, who was in the group we went to prom with. Haha, they're dancing!

 He ended the night with his beautiful singing and all of us joined it sometimes. :)

  In the end, my realization was that it's not the Dance itself that makes the night, but the getting ready and the people you spend it with that makes Prom so magical. I was having the time of my life with my boy and his friends (who I mostly just met) while I heard a plethora of complaints from others, mostly because their friends/dates/plans weren't working out. In a way, I was extremely lucky my first prom was that amazing, but I'll be cheesy and say that it was mostly the boyfriend who made it that way. And before you come to conclusions, NO we did NOT do anything dirty. >:( We just danced and spent the evening together. It was a very nice ending to a very nice school year. :)

That, along with school has been taking up most of my life. I'm so close to the end of the school year! I just want to be DONE. I lust for summer like a Winnie the Pooh lusts for honey. Mostly because my birthday's in summer.... and money. And it makes it that much closer to GERMANY! But I can wait. :D:D

I do believe good times and better friends make life special!
Lilly