Spring is the season for the biggest dance of the year, the Prom. Since turning 16, Austin has been very into the dating thing, and almost every major dance he has been in attendance. His Jr. Prom is no exception. We spent several hours over several nights discussing different ways he could ask KC Gubler to Prom. We are lucky to have Austins friend Eric Colson living with us and he planned on asking Kelsy Rasmussen. Between the two of them and lots of other help, they came up with some great ideas. Eric really wanted to give his girl a real egg and baby chick and say: "I would be EGG-cited to go the the Prom with a CHICK like you!", but that one was hard because of how delicate baby chicks are, and he wasn't interested in any candy varieties. Austin wanted to to haul an old travel trailer into his girls front yard and put a sign on it that said "I would be happier than a tornader in a trailer park if ya-alled go to the Prom with me!", however, that didn't come together any better than the baby chick thing. Finally, Eric decided to buy two alarm clocks and hide them in Kelseys room, to go off at 2 am, and the other at 4 am. When the first one went off, (which she didn't hear for an hour and a half!) the note on it said:
Good Morning merry Sunshine!How did you wake so soon?
Come with me to the Prom
And we'll dance away the moon!!
Then at four o'clock when the alarm went off she found the note that said:
Love, Eric
She figured it out with the first note and texted him at 3:30 to get him up so he could share in the fun.
Austin couldn't make up his mind about how to ask KC until he talked with her dad about April Fools pranks, and Leon gave him an idea. Austin had an old toilet in the back yard that he was going to use as target practice, and was still in good condition, that he could use. They came up with "Don't FLUSH my hopes down the drain!" which they put on the front of the tank, then on the toilet seat lid they put "Go to Prom with me!!" When she opened up the lid, on the inside they had written "Sometimes you have to go through a lot of CRAP, to find the TURD who gave you this". They put his name in foam letters inside Baby Ruth miniature candy bars and put them in apple juice in the bowl. (I know. . . yuk!!!) The whole thing sounded pretty gross, but considering that it was her dad that gave him the idea, and KC is a good sport they followed through with it. I wish I had pictures to show you because it actually turned out pretty cute. Austin put flowers in the tank and it dressed it up really cute. They assembled it down the street from her house, then put it on her front porch and ran. They "happened" to drive by as she was opening her front door and got a quick glance at her reaction which I'm told was priceless.
To answer him back, KC kept with the whole "bathroom" theme, and put a NEW plunger in his truck with a sign that said. . "NOPE!!!! (go to your front door)". He got that on April Fools night during a Sunday School party. He ran home as fast as he could to find a NEW toilet scrub brush taped to our front door and the note said: "April Fools!!!! Go to your back door." He, and all of his friends then proceeded to one of our back doors and searched and searched and searched for her answer. After about 20 minutes of searching, Austin finally realized we have two back doors, and opened the garage door to find his blessed toilet, and his answer. The sign on the tank said "I'm OVERFLOWING with JOY that you would ask me!" covered with miniature almond joy candy bars. Then under the lid was her answer. I did get pictures of it this time, after they took the almond joy candy off. I am amazed about what these kids acan come up with!
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