Love is an Open Door - Prom 2k15
Seriously I couldn't have asked for a better senior prom!
Here is the run down of how things went:
Well let's start from the beginning. While being asked to prom by two different guys in the same day I noticed my biggest weakness, but greatest quality all at the same time and it's something I have noticed in my life, especially lately... I have grown up caring and working for other people's happiness more than my own. Although this is a weird thing to talk about for myself, it's something that my friends and family have really taught me lately. I also feel like this post can really help other people who might be in the same boat.
Well, i am a high school graduate and while thinking about what to do with the rest of my life, something always brings me back to what would make my mom happy and my brother proud. This is a quality I have had since I was young. When Jordan and I we're just little girls, she would often beat me up, anything from clawing, biting, punching, and even to attempting to drown me in the bathtub, I would never cry because I was hurting. I would cry when I saw my baby sister being sent to time out and the sadness that she had while in time out. This also happened when Jordan broke her nose. She was jumping off the roof onto the trampoline and she happened to slip on a pillow, because we had slept on it the night before, and she slammed her nose into the outside bar of the trampoline. While running outside to see what all the noise was, I was laughing because Jordan's cry sounded like a laugh and was very contagious. But when I opened the door to notice that her noise was not a laugh, and she was gushing blood, my laugh too was suddenly a hysterical cry. I have always thought of this as a great and loving quality to have and I am very grateful for it.
This is just a little glimpse of the amount of crazy fun things we did! Kyler Jonathan Croxford is a character! With one of the most amazing crazy fun personalities! He has been raised to be the perfect gentleman. Not a door was touched by me that night, or any night before or after prom. He has genuine respect for all woman and that is something that makes him extremely admirable!
Prom day Kyler and I skipped everywhere we went, sang like idiots in the car, took hundreds of pictures, danced like fools, and honestly had the time of our life. While at the dance and through out the whole date my smile did not leave my face! It was stuck because I truly felt like Rapunzel when Flynn took her to see the floating lanterns! I actually had a chaperone (someone's mom) address me and say " I have been watching you all night because every time I look up you pull my eye, you are absolutely stunning and you are so genuinely happy. I can see it in you beautiful smile". I will never forget the kind word shared with me that night and that blast that I had!
The only downfall of the whole entire day and night is that while eating at Texas Roadhouse they refused to let me eat of the kids menu! Rotten apples! But I enjoyed a delicious steak and like forty rolls. And! The girl sitting across from me at our table has a HUGE dress and it kept me warm like a cozy blanket all throughout dinner!
Prom with Kyler honestly made me believe that 'love is an open door'. With many numerous heartbreaks in my past whether with family relationships, friends, or actual relationships I had a feeling that I was 'broken' in a sense. I built up a wall that I was unsure if anyone was going to or could get over the wall....
Here is the run down of how things went:
Well let's start from the beginning. While being asked to prom by two different guys in the same day I noticed my biggest weakness, but greatest quality all at the same time and it's something I have noticed in my life, especially lately... I have grown up caring and working for other people's happiness more than my own. Although this is a weird thing to talk about for myself, it's something that my friends and family have really taught me lately. I also feel like this post can really help other people who might be in the same boat.
Let me start by quoting one of my favorite movies for an example; in the notebook, Allie is faced with a conflict between choosing to be with her first love, Noah and her fiancé, Lon. Right before the wedding she decides to go see Noah because of a picture in the newspaper of the dream house they planned together. While visiting Noah, Allie falls completely in love again and is faced with the decision. Noah asks Allie to stop thinking about what everyone else wants, not what he wants, what Lon wants, or what her parents want. Just to think about what SHE wants.
Well, i am a high school graduate and while thinking about what to do with the rest of my life, something always brings me back to what would make my mom happy and my brother proud. This is a quality I have had since I was young. When Jordan and I we're just little girls, she would often beat me up, anything from clawing, biting, punching, and even to attempting to drown me in the bathtub, I would never cry because I was hurting. I would cry when I saw my baby sister being sent to time out and the sadness that she had while in time out. This also happened when Jordan broke her nose. She was jumping off the roof onto the trampoline and she happened to slip on a pillow, because we had slept on it the night before, and she slammed her nose into the outside bar of the trampoline. While running outside to see what all the noise was, I was laughing because Jordan's cry sounded like a laugh and was very contagious. But when I opened the door to notice that her noise was not a laugh, and she was gushing blood, my laugh too was suddenly a hysterical cry. I have always thought of this as a great and loving quality to have and I am very grateful for it.
But.....
It has put me into some interesting situations. Situations like two great guys asking me to prom in the same day.
I was so conflicted in know which boy to choose and how to let the other one know that he was not my choice, this was not only my last dance of high school, it was prom! Something I wanted to remember for the rest of my life and be able to tell my kids about. I called and talked to my closest family and friends to ask and see what they thought I should do, they all said to choose the one that I thought I would have the most fun with and to follow my heart. Well I honestly just wanted to go with both of them and call it good, but my family and friends told me that that was not an option and that I would have to choose.
THIS CHOICE WAS ONE OF THE HARDEST OF MY SENIOR YEAR, no matter what I chose I would be hurting someone and their friends and family might think I am a jerk for turning their boy down, I felt terrible. There was no bright side to this. So I had to do what my family and friends told me, "Taylor, follow your heart." I knew that whatever I chose my family and friends would support me either way, but I also knew that I would have to live with the consequence of hurting that boy. In the end, I made my choice and did what I thought would be best and chose the boy I thought I would have the most memorable time with. And I think it is fair enough to say that I couldn't have a better date and group! I had so much fun, the most fun I have ever had at a dance!
This is just a little glimpse of the amount of crazy fun things we did! Kyler Jonathan Croxford is a character! With one of the most amazing crazy fun personalities! He has been raised to be the perfect gentleman. Not a door was touched by me that night, or any night before or after prom. He has genuine respect for all woman and that is something that makes him extremely admirable!
Prom day Kyler and I skipped everywhere we went, sang like idiots in the car, took hundreds of pictures, danced like fools, and honestly had the time of our life. While at the dance and through out the whole date my smile did not leave my face! It was stuck because I truly felt like Rapunzel when Flynn took her to see the floating lanterns! I actually had a chaperone (someone's mom) address me and say " I have been watching you all night because every time I look up you pull my eye, you are absolutely stunning and you are so genuinely happy. I can see it in you beautiful smile". I will never forget the kind word shared with me that night and that blast that I had!
The only downfall of the whole entire day and night is that while eating at Texas Roadhouse they refused to let me eat of the kids menu! Rotten apples! But I enjoyed a delicious steak and like forty rolls. And! The girl sitting across from me at our table has a HUGE dress and it kept me warm like a cozy blanket all throughout dinner!
Prom with Kyler honestly made me believe that 'love is an open door'. With many numerous heartbreaks in my past whether with family relationships, friends, or actual relationships I had a feeling that I was 'broken' in a sense. I built up a wall that I was unsure if anyone was going to or could get over the wall....
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