Tag!

If you haven’t yet read yesterday’s post, Babies on the Brain, please scroll down and leave me a comment. I’m in need of advice, and everyone who comments on that post will be entered into a giveaway I’ll be sharing next week.

Also, please head over to Wyldechylde’s blog – she’s having a super cool pet-themed swap! You will be paired with someone and instead of swapping for items for yourself, you will swap for each other’s pets. Cool beans!

I’ve been tagged by a few people this week, so I’m going to combine them all in one big megapost.

I was tagged by Jen at Tatertots and Jello and Shawn at Seriously for the Keeping It Real Game. Here are the directions:

• Take a picture of yourself right now. No primping or preparing! Just snap a picture.
• Load the picture onto your blog.
• Tag some people to play. Remember, if you are tagged, we’ll be heading to your blog to see if you played along.

Y’all. You have no idea. It pains me to share this picture of myself. Here’s something you should know about me: I’m an obsessive picture deleter. For every picture you see of me that looks halfway decent, there were about 10 other deleted pictures of me with wonky eyes and five chins.

This one would have been deleted, except I got tagged. (Thanks, Jenn!) Look at my wonky eyes! I swear that in person I don’t look as if one eye is larger than the other. Geez.

I tag:

• Jules from Chic & Pink
• Justine from Tiney’s Froggy Bloggy
• Jill from Jill’s Believe It or Not
• Katie from My First Year as a Wallace
• Kasey at All That Is Good

I was tagged Shawn, Kasey, and Jill to share a prom picture of myself. Jill went a step further and had a cute little button made by Danielle, The Design Girl.

Here are the rules:

1. Upload your prom picture. If you don't have one, email your mom and have her send it to you. That's what I had to do. :)
2. Don’t forget to include the year it was taken. Again, don't be shy. The older the better.
3. Grab the "Prom Queen" button and add to your post. Isn't the button adorable? Thank you Danielle, The Design Girl. You must check out her fabulous sale!
4. Copy and paste the rules to your blog.
5. Tag 5 others!

My mom couldn’t find my actual prom picture, but she did find the pictures we had made at Olan Mills of my in my prom dress, so that will have to do.

This was taken in 1996, for my junior prom. The first thing Jason said when he saw this was “All you need is a baton; you’ve got on your marching band costume!” I look so strange here – like I have a weirdly small head or a very large body. The dress is actually a pageant dress, which explains the sequins and beading. It was just a long column dress that cinched in at the waist. I thought I looked really pretty, but all the other girls at the prom were wearing satin dresses with cut outs in the waist.

I tag:

• Becca from Lovely Yellow Ribbons
• Natalie from The Brocks Rock
• Unwrap Life
• April from Deltakids
• Shannon from Just A Girl

I was gifted with the Neno Award from the lovely Jules at Chic & Pink. This award serves as a dedication for those who love blogging and love to encourage friendships through blogging. If you receive the award, you are asked to share why you love blogging, share your award in a post as soon as you receive it, link back to the person who gave it to you, and distribute the award to other bloggers.

I gift this to everyone who gave me such awesome advice yesterday! I really appreciated everyone’s feedback. If you left me a comment yesterday, this is for you!

HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE! Feel free to participate in either tag, and if you do, please let me know so that I can come by!