My Dad's Homecoming

As some of you may know my Dad was recently honored at our home town homecoming assembly. Every year they pick two people in the community(man and a woman) to dedicate the entire assembly to. These are people that are loved by many including the graduating class that chose to honor them, and have made a great difference in the school and community. I was lucky enough to get to go to the assembly and mostly i'm just writing this post up so my siblings can feel like they were there too. 

Most people know that my dad is...shall we say easily embarrassed by a spot light being put on him of any kind, for basically any reason. So of course no one wanted to tell him until he was there and it was too late. They started talking about the person they were nominating without saying the name, but once they got to the graduating year of the nominee he made this face at us...

Then he knew :) That's the best face ever. FACT.

The cheerleaders escorted him from the audience to center stage as they continued to talk about all the awesome stuff he's ever done, and all his FABULOUS bulldog children. At this point there was also a group of faculty behind us that kept yelling things about how he was everyone's favorite coworker and employee. It was really sweet. 

Here is Mom pinning his flower on him

I think he looks like he's having a pretty good time. Mom was just thrilled that she was able to keep it a surprise for him.

 There is a lot of clapping that goes on at these assemblies. So much that you'll get fatigued.  Pretty much every song you need to clap along, and they do it twice, its just tradition. I didn't notice this until I grew up and was not a professional clapper(cheerleader).

 And here is after the assembly. It was so cute to see so many people come up to him and talk about how much he was really appreciated. I never thought i'd grow up to get to see my DADS homecoming :) We celebrated by treating the nominee and his wife to Dairy Queen on us where even more people congratulated him. Nice job Dad, way to be an awesome Bulldog for LIFE. You gave us a legacy to be proud of, and you still do. 

 SO CUTE!!!