Pictures and Memories...Recording the chaos at our house as it unfolds!: i love you a bushel and a peck

lauren's big spring recital show is in just a few hours and i have literally spent two hours curling her hair. just when i get it all finished, what i just curled 20 minutes ago has fallen out! i'm glad i didn't wash her hair before i started otherwise it would have been worse. i practically used a whole bottle of hairspray! i should have gone and bought some aquanet or something equally potent! anyway.......

daddy is not a big fan of little girls wearing makeup, and i see his point...so i was very careful how much i actually put on. i barely put on anything actually...just enough so that lauren could see that she had it on and wouldn't feel left out around the other girls. i did use my lipstick that doesn't come off for like 3 days. she was super excited about that. i did have to use that as bargaining for pictures outside. she did ham it up for me. and i promise you...all of these "poses" were of her own doing. i just kept clicking the big silver button on the camera!

here is our prima ballerina!

look at that hand on her hip. she's something else!

as if one hand on her hip wasn't enough...

just when you thought she couldn't get any sassier.......

actual dance step in the "i love you a bushel and a peck" number

this was her "ending" shot!

giving our regards to broadway

performing to "i love you a bushel and a peck" from guys and dolls

their ballet number

lauren receiving her first trophy!

i moved to the front of the auditorium to take lauren's picture receiving her trophy. when mrs. brenda called out lauren's name to come get her trophy, at the top of jared's lungs he yelled out, "THAT'S MY LITTLE SISTER!!!!" it was so cute! he's so proud of her!