April 6th, 2013

So tonight was Delta Eta Iota's Formal! It was an absolute blast! I would like to make my thank-you's to Kelsie Schlese for doing everyone's hair and make-up without complaining. She is an amazing person who doesn't hear often enough how wonderful she really is! I would also like to thank her little sister, Celina for taking all of our photo's even though she didn't have to! She is an amazing photographer and I can't wait to see more of her work in the futur! Thank you's also go out to Jocelyn and Selena for MC'ing, Kelly Desjarlais and Lauren Mauthe for putting together all of the fun awards, Brendan Obuck for helping with the music selection, the Lethbridge Lodge for putting up with us, all my wonderful sisters for coming out and having a great time, as well as my wonderful date Loring (from Kappa Sigma) for the great time I had.

So, as per usual, most of us got ready at Kelsie's because she's magic with hair and make-up. Her little sister Celina was down for the weekend and agreed to be out photographer when ours backed-out last minute. Kelsie did an amazing job with my hair, I thought it looked absolutely beautiful.

Celina decided that we should all have some artistic photo's taken while we were all done up so here's my favorite that she took of me:

So, as I mentioned, our formal was held in one of the ballrooms in the Lethbridge Lodge. Funny enough, the other ballroom was being rented to the Scottish dancers of Lethbridge so there were tartans everywhere! Once we arrived at the Lodge, all the girls were asked to take headshots and then we took Date and Group photos.

So this is Loring and I

This is my greek Family. My little sisters Liesl and Alex (on either side of me) and my Grand-Little Rachel. 

So here are all the girls with their dates

And here are all my beautiful sisters!

After photo's, Jade gave her parting President speech and then it was dinner. Buffet style with Lasagna or Chicken, salads, potatoes, garlic toast, etc. I sat at a table with Kelsie Schlese (&Matt Hansen, & Celina), Alex Funk (&Brenden Obuck) and Rachel Ann (&Matt Basaraba). Well, my little, Alex, is very special. She loved the potatoes that they had. She loved them so much that when we went back for seconds, she also took her unused coffee mug and filled her place and her mug with potatoes... She also decided that her potatoes were messy so she needed a bib...Let's just say the evening was absolutely hilarious at my table.

After dinner, we had awards. Founder's Award this year went to Jocelyn Hamilton and President's Award went to Kayla Stone, who is unfortunately graduating this year. I will miss her terribly but wish her all the best of luck in the future. She gave a graduation speech that made us all cry (well I cried). We also had fun awards, I won the Harry Potter award (for best skill with a wand). Apparently it wasn't meant as a Harry Potter award but that's what it turned into! After it all was said and done, we all went down to Essie's (which is the country bar/club that's attached to the hotel) and danced the night away. Literally! I had so much fun two-stepping with Loring and dancing to Gangnam Style with the girls. The after, after party was at Jocelyn and Selena's house but I was absolutely exhausted by the time everyone decided to go and my feet were killing me so we went home and watched the original Footloose instead.

I had so much fun! It is definitely a Formal I will never forget!