PDX Family Prom: A Family That Comes Together Stays Together

Here's a formula for living a life you love: Have great friends, plan cool adventures with them, work hard on projects that make you happy, only work on things that make you tick (or make you money), dress up, don't take yourself too seriously, listen to music, eat yummy food, drink Dry Fly vodka, stay up all night playing with your friends every once in a while (or every weekend or so), meet new great friends and let people you love know it!
Oh, and next year, don't miss the PDX Family Prom! Saturday night at Mt. Tabor Theater Just People threw the best prom Portland has ever experienced! (That is a scientific fact, I checked Wikipedia.) Just Peeps, Marv Ellis and the Platform, DJ Wu and DJ DV8 threw it down all night, and Phil and I MCed between sets, playing co-class presidents announcing superlatives, reminding prom goers to pledge their virginities* and get their prom photos taken by Moon Rok. I finally found a dress (mini gun-metal gray from Sloan boutique on 23rd) after my typical outfitting procrastination; everyone came looking so fly and fresh and steezy in their prom-wear!
(*Just kidding about the virginity pledge.) 56 hot Portland (and Eugene) old friends and new friends met at Bliss Cupcakes and boarded the trusty NW Navigator (aka Jillian Rabe's bus) (Jillian above with photog Shaun Mendiola) for the drive to Mt. Tabor. (We with the Just People/Jillian Rabe bus crew only take safe rides!!) Gorgeous Dry Fly Distillery rep Courtney Olsen Clarke and her hubby Jimmy Clark (from 94.7) miraculously showed up with millions* of tiny bottles of Dry Fly, and Just People manager Colby Hayden stocked the bus with PBR, so don't worry, no one was thirsty. Then we rode the bus and danced and sang and played music and watched music and took pictures and eventually made it back to the Cheerio estate in the woods to stay up all night long! (*Not really millions.) Ah, to be young again.

Top top, May 15th marquee. Above, sexiest couple Leah Haas and Just People drummer Alex Greene. Below, Alex and buddy ball Kevin Blackmore on the bus, Tory looking fly in his glasses and gear, Jillian and Tony "pinning" each other, Erica and Ryan in Bliss, Tim Shroyer and Tony sharing a quick celebratory prom smoke and fabulous Reem and Ari walking the red carpet.Thank you Shaun for all these great photos!! Two photos up, he and his beautiful girlfriend Jillian share a moment of love :) Above, Phil and I onstage, getting into character. (Me: preppy prom queen, Phil: goofy class clown. Oh wait, we didn't really have to do much to get into character.) (I swear I don't know what's going on with the whole prom queen thing.) Below, Just People: Scott leading the assembly line, Ian singing backup vocals and on his electric, and Peter on guitar and Todd kicking ass on bass. Above, Brook and Miss Alison Grise enjoying the micro brews and "de-virginize" prom punch from the bar. Below, Megan, Jillian and Ani looking gorge, and Kerri looking spicy and sexy! Great night is an understatement.