Caroline's Winter Semi-Formal!

 Caroline attends the Commonwealth Governor's School, which is an accelerated program in high schools all over Virginia.  The surrounding CGS from King George, Spotsylvania, and Stafford have a semi-formal each winter called the Snow Ball.  It was rescheduled from Feb to March 11.  Caroline and her group of friends had made plans early on to just go as a group.  Bella, Cullen, Kate, and Connor joined Caroline for pictures (at Kate's house), the dinner at Chili's, followed by the dance. 
 I took Caroline dress shopping a couple of weeks ago, and it was not very successful.  She's a picky shopper to start with, and we didn't find many options for a semi-formal (lots of prom dresses).  We ended up finding that cute navy blue number ON SALE on JC Penney's website--marked down to $39!  She also got fancy nude high heels that will work with fancy dresses in the future, some earrings and bracelets from Charming Charlies, and a whole bunch of curls courtesy of me :)
Connor's mom became my hero by offering to drive the kids to dinner, then to the dance, then hang out in F'Burg until the dance was over, AND drive them all back home!  I passed out at 10 PM while reading and Caroline made it home about an hour later.  Her first comment this morning was "God, my feet hurt so much!".  Yep, welcome to high heels, they suck ;)

The whole group, looking all cute

The "serious" pose

Don't let the smile fool you--it was absolutely freezing!

Gimme a "YAY!" for awkward high school dances!