Chillin with the Dallings

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Homecoming 2008

Alyssa and Kyle

Alyssa & Nikole

The Group (all but 1 guy)

Kyle's the one with the hammer - boy am I a trusting parent!

All the girls/All but 1 of the guys

Alyssa & Anika

Sunday, October 19, 2008

The Shirt and the Mum (The rest of the Dumb Tradition)

There's a strange tradition here in Texas - the gals make the guys a garter and the guys make the gals a mum. Earlier we showed the garter Alyssa made for Kyle, well here is the Mum Kyle made for Alyssa.

They also do shirts - the front of Kyle and Alyssa's shirts say "We Ballin' on the Eastside" and the back of the shirts have their dates last name, a picture of thier sport along with their number.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Some Dumb Tradition

This is the garter Alyssa made for her Homecoming date. With the amount of bells on it, he should be heard all over campus. Texas has a tradition where the girl makes a garter for the guy and the guy makes a mum for the girl. (a mum looks just like the garter, but much, much longer. It hooks around the neck and on the shoulders. They're suppose to be full of ribbon down to the girls feet that represent them and their date.) And they cost and arm and a leg (they start at the store for $70 and go up into the hundreds.) We made our own and saved lots of money. Ha Ha Ha...

Ask anyone in Texas and they have no idea what the tradition is about, but nobody is about to break this wonderful tradition.

Watch for Homecoming pictures after October 18

Dress for Homecoming!

Okay, we've got the dress, jewelry, shoes and purse. Now the hairstyle ideas. Yes Kenna and Deonne, I have someone arranged to do the hair so Alyssa doesn't have to put up with me and only me (do you feel sorry for me yet?)!

Please send us a message with any ideas for the hair.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Here are some pictures of some Alyssa's Homecoming dress. We'll post the pictures of homecoming as soon as she and her date, Kyle get them.

Frogs

We've finally taken pictures of Alyssa's frogs. She started out with 21, then we only found 17 in the tank. We then took them all out to change the tank and found 20. We don't know what happened...