and the homecoming queen is...

my cousin!

jackson and i took the girls to the game. jen, ("the queen"), had her own cheering section...my crew, her crew (my aunt, uncle, and cousins), my other aunt, and about a thousand rowdy teens screaming "we love you jen!"...

they announced the candidates, lined them up on the field, and we heard..."the 2008 homecoming queen is...Jennifer Schmitz"!

i was a flippin idiot...jumping and screaming and crying...
i probably would have been an embarassment if not for the fact that everyone else around me was doing the same! oh, and thank god for cell phones...how else could i have told EVERYONE i know in a matter of about 47 seconds??


isn't she gorgeous?!?!?

we went to the parade before the game...{nevermind the out-of-order sequence...it's backwards day - didn't you know?}
there's my stunning cousin and her escort...

and all the kiddos were "parachuting" off the curb with their candy bags {while their nervous nellie moms kept jerking them back since the traffic hadn't been stopped yet for the parade}...