Prom Invite

It's a big deal now in not just going to the prom, but in how you're ASKED to go to the prom.  Some invites are so elaborate that they could compete with marriage proposals.  Last year, this same friend found out how much our daughter loved pumpkin, whether it's pumpkin bread, pumpkin pie, pumpkin ice cream, pumpkin chips, really anything to do with pumpkin (afterall, it is a melon!).  So, last year he bought her a pumpkin muffin from a bakery and had them write "Prom?" with icing on the top.  She loved he did that, so she agreed to be his prom date.

This year, the same sweet guy wanted to ask her again.  But the question was how?  To take you back several weeks ago, there was a soccer game in which our sweet, intelligent, and considerate daughter played a bit too aggressively on the soccer field.  She had received a yellow card earlier this season (which is a warning from the referee), but was given a red card on this particular game becuase the aggressive behavior occurred within the goal box.  Since this was the first red card given to any athlete in the history of the school, our daughter got the nickname "red".

So, her date decided to purchase an official referee shirt and an official red card and wrote the word "Prom?" on the card.  Our daughter accepted with a smile at the elaborate length he went to ask.  She told him it would have been cheaper to just purchase a watermelon.