Prom Pictures 2009

Prom was last weekend and I had a great time. A quick update from my last blog: I went to state honors orchestra and got first chair. :) Very cool. The conductor was a really cool guy from Vermillion, South Dakota, which is neat because we nearly moved there. We almost moved to a LOT of places, but in the end is was either Vermillion or Dubuque. We chose Dubuque, but had we chosen Vermillion, I would be studying with this guy next year! :o anyway, he places the bass like nobody I've ever seen before. Absolutely GORGEOUS. His bass just became a part of him. The way he handled it and played it, it was like an extention of his body, mind and soul. Amazing how he did it. It sounded better than my cello. I now have a completely new appreciation for the string bass that I've never had before. He played a violin solo on it. I asked him if there was music I could get, and he sent it to me for free, along with the piano accompaniment! What an awesome guy. I'm excited to learn the cello arangement for it. It's beautiful.
Anyway, here's some prom pictures! :) There are a few where there's a photographer also in the picture. I'll get those pictures next week.


I went with my good friend Marlynn. Neither of us were asked out, so we had a goal to look so gorgeous so that the next day at church, the guys would be jealous that they didn't ask us at all. :) hehehe. (it worked! haha loved it. The guys were talking to me and watching me and everything.... ahh I could live with that! Man! Let's do it again! haha)

I absolutely love my dress. It fits me just perfectly. Didn't even have to have anything tucked or redone or anything. Just hemmed (because all dresses are too long for me), and there was a train that we had shortened. I designed the sleeves, because modest is hottest, and they turned out perfectly. :)

Alyssa Hayes did the hair. Love it! Marissa Alexander did the makeup. Loved it, too!

eeeee I loved my hair and the back of my dress sooo much. :) I felt like a million bucks. Hehe. And the week before, I had missed a dosage of my once-every-two-weeks medication for my crohn's (it's a shot), and I went downhill pretty fast. Lost 5 pounds.. I didn't mind the weight loss though, it meant my dress fit even better! :P