Geez they grow up fast...Photos finally!!

[byrdr1]

AAAHHHHHH,
the joys of dating.... As a dad of 2 young ladies. One almost 20 the other just turned 9.
I have been there!!! done that!!!!....
The oldest finally has a good boy friend. One who will come to church with us and is not afraid to tell us he LIKES coming to church. This is the 1st boy who has ever come to church with us.....The others just stayed away on Sundays.
He has been to school and has 2-2 year degrees in construction/framing/contracting/carpentry.
He knows we want our daughter to finish school and get her degree/s.
He likes the other kids in our family and has taken our 13 year old son out hunting this past deer season.. He loves on the youngest like a baby sister...
He has his head on straight and has plans for the future.
Build his own house, make lots of money, take good care of a wife.. You know all the things a dad like to hear.. But he is the best one of the 3-4 she has dated through high school and college. Best of all he has been around for 9-10 months.....
SO to all who have the little ones (DD's) growing up... It does get better..
And there are a few good men left out there..... We all aren't married!!!!
randy

[SkipP]

Camperoo and SkipP--TELL!!! We are anxiously waiting to hear how these MIleStone Events turned out! Where are the digital pics of your darlings?
 

The Ball, according to DD, was "a blast" but the heels made her feet hurt! LOL. We were really gratified to see that the boy's parents were as, uh, anxious as we were! There is a picture of them on my Webshots site under "Camper Mods"

[B-flat]

I don't know who has the worst "growing pains," the parents or the teenagers.:eek:

[Camperroo]

Hi gang geez I'm so sorrrrryyyy!!!  My laptop crashed the day after the big night, then DH moved his computer into the house for me from his office and then when I tried to find PUT....I couldn't find the webpage!! I even went to PUX to ask if anyone knew what was going on!!!

Well, well, the dance was a huge success!!  DD looked just beautiful.  The dress dilemma was taken care of by a very kind tailor and dress was safely back in our hands by 2 pm.  Took DD to haidresser and an hour later all the curls she put in FELL STRAIGHT OUT!!  I was so mad!! I then spent an hour recurling her hair, I don't know why the hairdresser do fell out!  But mom and her handY curling iron to the rescue!!  My neighbor who does Mary Kay came over and continued the transformation into Princess for the night!!  DD was just stunning!!  I don't know how to post pictures here to show you all and I don't have a web page.  NightOwl if you know how maybe I could email you a photo and you could post if for me??  Or someone leave very easy, EASY to follow directions for me to post digital photos!!

DH just couldn't believe his daughter looked so "grown up"!!  She was so excited about it all.  I followed them over to her date's house to take photos and her young man opened up the door to greet her and  DH and I.  Then we went into their family room and took photos in front of their fireplace and her date told her he had something for her and proceeded to give her the most gorgeous rose wrist corsage complete with silver ribbon to match the small sequins on her dress.  She gave him a rose boutonneire complete with lots of laughing over not knowing how to put it on.  They had a wonderful time at the dance.  He stay by her side all night and was a true gentleman in helping her on and off with her coat. When we left the house he opened up the car door for her and then the poor kid after being so gallant all night walked around to let himself in and went down in a heap on a piece of ice in the driveway!!!!  We couldn't believe it!!!  He jumped right up with both hands in the air and yelled out "I'm OK!"  My DH just put his hands over his eyes at that point!!!!  It broke the ice so to speak with the jitters because both kids were laughing away at it!!

She had a wonderful, wonderful night and when she got home she was exhausted and kept saying..after waiting all this time it went bye all so fast!!   I told her welcome to life!!!  The things that seem never to come, arrive and go so quickly!!  That's why its so important to enjoy the moment!!

She hasn't yet put her dress away.  It is still hanging up where she can look at it...along with those photos of her handsome date!!!

We survived the first big dance with bursting hearts of joy and pride and I'll now remember to note to always get the dress hemmed RIGHT AWAY!!!!

[MommaMia]

if you know how maybe I could email you a photo and you could post if for me??  Or someone leave very easy, EASY to follow directions for me to post digital photos!!

Feel free to e-mail me the photos and I'll be glad to  post them for you!
hokan@comcast.net


and... glad to know she had such a good time!

[birol]

So, are any pictures on the way

[Camperroo]

Thanks!  I'll email the photos in a couple of days!  Right now my laptop with all my digital photos stored on it is in the Comp USA computer hospital being fixed!!!!!!!!!  She requires a new battery charger operation!!  Mild, but recoverable!!

[Camperroo]

MommaMia thanks for the offer of posting the photo, I decided to try my hand at the AOL hometown page and gave it a try!!  It's not great but will do for now! By the way...Florida is still heavy on our minds.  We are now rethinking of a bit closer towards Tampa in the Brooksville area as that is where my folks had lived and my aunt and uncle live down there.  Found a great development like Julington Creek.  I wish we could just make the decision...but it's taking some deep thought.


Well, here's the official photo page.  This is my very sad attempt at a web page so bear with me!!!  Here is a link to where I posted the photo of DD and her date.  You will have to scroll down the page a bit because I can't figure out how to move the picture up higher on the page!!!!  Plus the photo is on the dark side.  Like I said...bear with me!!

I can't wait to get my laptop back, my DH's computer is about 4 yrs. old and very slow and I can't get things done like I can on my laptop!!  Which is much more user friendly!!!!

http://hometown.aol.com/camperroo/myhomepage/photo.html

I hope the link works!!  The Semi-Formal was a great event and the kids are still talking about it!!  It was so much fun to just watch the whole process evolve.  I set up a camping webpage to, but I have to find it!!  I'll post that here too. It has our TT set up on site and a photo of the lake, not very creative, and I smooshed the picture somehow so the TT photo is a bit squished up, but you'll get the idea!!!

Here's the link to our camping webpage

http://hometown.aol.com/camperroo/lovetocamp.html