Ball of Confusion

Senior Ball is coming up in a few weeks, and Steph's boyfriend Justin officially asked her to the dance in one of the cutest, and messiest ways I've ever seen! When we got home from a family outing this afternoon, this was waiting for Steph on the front steps. Four buckets (in school colors... nice touch!) with what appeared to be filled with shaving cream.

Indeed, it was shaving cream, but it was masking all the other stuff found beneath... huge mounds of mashed potatoes and gravy, and some other substance we're not quite sure about, it looked like root beer floats, with tons of gumballs in it.

Steph had to fish out all these balls from each basket. There were some bigger balls, and tons of tiny ping pong balls, some with pictures drawn on them, some with words written. We washed the goop off all the balls and thought for sure one of them would say something about the Senior Ball.... Nothing. Soooo, we rinsed out all the buckets assuming that they probably had a message written on the bottom. Again, nothing.

Then we figured, maybe there's some special code on these ping pong balls that we have to piece together. Seriously, Steph and I sat there for a good half hour trying to figure it out. She kept texting Justin begging for clues but he refused. We both finally just had to walk away because it was hurting our brains trying to figure this out. A short while later, we hear a loud knock on the door and when we answered it this is what we found...

Pretty cute, huh?! (Justin plays football and Steph plays softball) Apparently all the pictures and words on the ball were just to throw Steph off. I'd say his plan worked more than perfectly.