Senior Year Sadies.

Mar asked Jake to Sadies... three times. 

It was all part of her plan.

This was the third and final time (all in the same day), and since we had the Elders for dinner, she thought it would be fun to involve them. They shared a great spiritual thought tying in the story of Jonah and the whale, and then asked Jake what the "porpoise" of the message could be. 

Hahaha. So clever.

Nice job, Elders!

The theme of the dance was a "Sock Hop" so Mar decided to dress up. Most kids don't theme dress around these parts -- what fun is that?? She got Jake to dress the part, too. (I think she could pretty much get Jake to do anything... including wearing jeans, which he doesn't usually do.)

Lex snapped most of the pics, so I had to include these cute ones, too.

We met the Sadie's group at the MAC park for pictures.

 I was happy to see the boys in the group were down to theme dress.

Everyone in this picture except Jake is in our ward. 

There were several other groups of kids there taking pre-dance pics, and nearly every girl was in black. Mar stood out in her bright blue dress... but I think she liked it.

 One of the parents had the idea to take a "Greasers v. Socs" picture (remember The Outsiders?)

Cute cute.

The rest of the group skipped the dance and went to Boondocks (some of them don't like school dances), but Mar and Jake went to the dance. 

Mar LOVES school dances. 

One more to go.