Dress Success....

Y'all must have prayed for us...

Prom dress shopping was not only a success,

but we had a lot of fun too...

It was Cate, my Step-mom and I off to Nashville on this bleak & rainy day...

It started off iffy...

My step-mom's allergies are acting way up...

We ran out of coffee and...

The first few store we hit had (to quote Cate) "hoochie" looking dresses...

Low cut... excessively short... and clingy fabric....

She wanted sassy, classy & somewhat modest... but we started to think that dress didn't exist.

But a quick trip to Starbucks and hope returned...

Finally at David's Bridal we hit the mother-load...

Tons of dresses... none over $250... and almost every style in her size...

By 2PM she had it narrowed down to these four dresses...

Long & Classy...

Short & Sassy...

Long & Sassy...

Mid-length and Sassy...

All of these dresses looked really good on her and covered her in all the needed areas and accentuated her in all the right areas... There was only one thing to do....

We went out to lunch...

After a good meal, we headed back and she tried all four on once more...

I already knew which one it would be, you see when she tried them on the first time one of these dresses made her face glow... She spent more time looking at it then the others, but from years of being her mom I knew to let her make the decision her own way...

And the winner is...

Long & Sassy...

(By the way she hates this picture, but she was exhausted and only posed for one... so this is it.)

And as a bonus we found a dress for Sparky too...

We went to Kohl's on the way home to look for strapless bras and I found this dress...

It was on clearance... and with the additional 30% off coupon I had we got it for $19.70!

She has a dress that we were given, but it needs some work done on it, and I wasn't sure I'd have time to do the needed work... so when we saw this in her size, at that price I couldn't pass it up...

Sparky wasn't part of today's shopping trip for several reasons...

First, she had the afore mentioned dress...

Secondly, she is only in 10th grade... she will have other proms.

Cate is a senior, this is her one and only prom.

Lastly this shopping trip and dress was a birthday gift from her grandma who really wanted her to feel special for a day... Cate always includes her sister in everything and usually puts her sister's needs and feelings before her own... Today was Cate's day, and when they shop together they don't always get along... In most settings they aren't very competitive... until you put them together in a fitting room...

So Sparky went to spend the day with a friend while we shopping...

Was she a little jealous...

Oh probably, but I don't feel compelled to be even and fair in all things...

Lets face it, life doesn't work that way and besides "fair" and "even" are not always the same thing...

And it wasn't really in our budget for new dresses...

until we found this one...

I can definitely afford $20  for a dress and it fits her perfectly!

You can imagine her surprise and joy to receive this dress when she didn't expect anything!

Yes... we ended the day with two very happy girls and that is a rare treat...

Thanks for listening,