THS Homecoming

Victoria had lots of fun last week as she participated in her first high school Homecoming week!

She looked so funny on nerd day, had a blast riding on the volleyball team float in the homecoming parade, played in the homecoming volleyball game, wore her first Homecoming Mum, enjoyed her first high school football game, and was flattered that she was asked to homecoming three times, by three different guys- but graciously declined since she isn't 16 years old and doesn't date yet.

Volleyball team float.

At seminary before going to school for Nerd Day. (Tori is the tall one in the middle)

Some of you may be asking, "What is a homecoming mum?" And to you I say, a big waste of money. (haha!) No really, this is just the strangest tradition here in the south. I had never heard of this before and was really quite clueless up until last week.

Her friends told her to go to a few stores to look at and price homecoming mums. (Typically, your and you homecoming date buy them for each other and you wear them on Friday, the day of the big football game.) Seeing that she wasn't taking a date and "all her friends were wearing one!", off we went to Kroger. The Florist educated us (so we thought) on the mums and which grade wore what length and colors etc. We were told that Freshman only wear them to the waist and Seniors wore only white and silver and their mums went to the ground. The mum has your name on it, what sports you play, and if you are going with a date - their name is on it too.

Seeing how expensive they were (some were up to $150), Tori went to the local craft store and she made her own mum. I have to say she did a really good job! However, when she got to school, everyone wore a long mum. She said she "felt like a dork". But hey, I thought she looked cute. So, now that we have had our "guinea pig" make it through our first homecoming in Texas, we now know better!

The football game. Her team was 5-0. They lost big time.

Tori and friends at her first high school football game. She said, she had "like 7 people trying to explain the game to her". She still is not sure she really gets it! It's tough having no brothers!