Here's lookin' at you kid!

With Jared and his brothers, especially Dusty, you always have to be careful about taking a picture with them. They always end up making a silly face without you even knowing it. So you have to catch them in the act in order to stop them, otherwise, you get a picture like this.

Megann had no clue what Dusty was doing.

So I always take a quick glance at Jared to make sure he is being good. I caught him making a funny face which he quickly said, "You weren't suppose to look at me!" He smiled for me after I gave him a nice poke in the ribs. But I still checked to make sure he was being good after that.

(Beware of the double chin, I hate when that happens.)

Then we took another one, me thinking that we were both smiling at the camera. But Jared stole a glance my way.

I actually really like this picture of us. It makes me laugh and feel good. Jared just always makes me laugh and feel good.

At least we are finally looking at the camera together. I don't Jared to open his eyes so that they wouldn't be squinty and this is what he did...the deer in the headlights look.

I love this guy!

We went to a dance together, more on that later, and I tried to do a dark smokey eye look. When I went to pick up the baby sitter, I said, "Be brutally honest, does my eye makeup say sexy elegant, or cheap hussy?" (I never know because I don't wear lots of dark eye makeup so I didn't want to look like a hooker or anything.) She said, "Hum, well, there are a lot of girls at school who wear makeup that dark all the time so...in between." (Great! I am either an elegant hussy or a cheap sexy person.) I took Jared's opinion in the car instead, which was, "You are so beautiful!"

My hair was another mess. I had envisioned it a certain way, slightly slicked back into long flowing curls. When I had finished curling it, I grabbed the hair spray to keep it in place but after saturating my hair with it, I realized that I hadn't grabbed the hair spray, but the detangler spray. My curls were ruined. I blow dried my hair and attempted to curl my hair again but it didn't really work. I was really bummed and ended up putting it in a swoopy messy look type of side ponytail. I also asked Jared how my hair looked and he said in a very pondering sort of way, "It looks very natural." Natural? What is that suppose to mean? He saw that I was a bit confused by that remark and began again, "It looks like you didn't take any time to do it." That statement can be taken two ways, good or bad, I wasn't sure which way to take it. He realized that he was making it sound like I looked bad but then he remedied the situation by just saying that I was again, very beautiful. I ended up getting lots of compliments from Megann and Sarah that my hair looked pretty, so I guess it did turn out.

I was not a "natural" looking "hussy" that night!