Elk's Charity Ball

Last weekend Stan and I attended the Elk's Charity Ball in Frederick, MD while Wyatt spent the night playing with his Cousin William. The Charity Ball's theme was "A Walk Through Time" and it was a costume ball. We had to choose an era between 1900-1999. Originally I wanted to do the 1940s but us big girls have to take what we can get so I ended up finding a dress from the 1970s. Stan's costume was full on disco complete with the platform boots and everything. I bought an afro wig so I could actualize my goal of one day having an afro but then I spent like three hours trying to do a Jaquelyn Smith do, so do I look 70's enough?


This is me and Wyatt just before we left to go drop him off for his Pajama party. My mom and dad got turn of the century costumes. She was the Unsinkable Molly Brown which seems very appropriate for my mom. My dad looked so handsome in his suit. It had a long jacket and of course a top hat. He said he was too tall to fit through the door with the hat on.
OF course my mom danced and danced and danced. Here she is guiding one of her fellow Elks across the floor. He was having a ball dancing with her and the spotlight was on them the whole time. Also notice the decorations, my mom was on the committee and she imagined all this up.

"DO the hustle" ok well we didn't actually do the hustle but we got up and boogied a little too. Here you can see Stan's costume a little just picture bell bottoms and big heeled boots at the bottom and that was him.

My mom and dad sharing a slow dance. I always love watching them dance you can really tell their height difference (she is in heels here too).

AND of course my mom danced some more.

While we took a little break...

My dad tried to take a break so my mom just danced next to him and bumped him with her hip every now and then.

The Charity Ball was a blast and it was nice to have a date night since we hadn't done anything without Wyatt since he was like 2 months old or something.