Red Lipstick Steps Up Any Outfit

Emily wanted to do some "glam" shots just because. She put on a white lace dress, brown booties, and of course red lipstick. I have hardly ever seen my sister wear lipstick. Of course she's worn lip gloss or lip stains, but lipstick? I didn't even know she had a good shade (she normally steals my mom's make up). After attempting to curl her hair and pin it up -which ended in disaster- we decided to just pin back part with bobby pins and flowers.

Apparently it was supposed to rain last night - it never did - so I kept driving away from the dark clouds overhead in hopes of finding refuge. Originally I wanted to go by this nice lake in this neighborhood, but since the storm was in that direction I had to just drive east. We didn't know exactly where to go, but as I was heading down Spring Creek I passed a church on my right. I quickly turned into the parking lot and decided that is where we would shoot. The clouds were moving east and Emily swore she saw lightning in the west so we had to work fast. It was getting humid and nasty, but Emily pulled off the look.

After we got home, she threw on her PJs but still had on her lipstick. I then told her to throw on her PINK hoodie and we took some more pictures outside (the rain never came even though the clouds looked ominous). Just because of her red lips, she looked like she was posing for Victoria's Secret. So lesson learned, wear red lipstick to make a statement.

July 4th with Megan

This is my best friend, Megan. I met her right before we started our freshman year. I was in Girl Scouts since I was a daisy, and I was part of the same troop all the way up to middle school. Before starting high school though, the troop decided to disband and quit the whole Girl Scout thing. My mom didn't want me quitting, mostly because she wanted me to get my Gold Award eventually (and I did). So she started looking around for a troop for me to join. This was easy for her cause my mom was a Girl Scout leader for my sister's troop. There were two troops in the area with girls my age. One of the troops was with girls that I already knew. Personally I didn't want to join that one because I didn't really like those girls. They were a little superficial to me, but in general a 14 year old girl can be like that.

That left the other troop with girls that I did not know at all. One girl, Megan went to the same middle school as me and we were band together. We played different instruments though, so we didn't really have any contact at all. So, that summer before starting freshman year, I went over to their swim party just to get to know them. Immediately I was accepted. We stayed together for four years, but since then we've all gone our own ways. Megan and I have stayed best friends since I joined her troop back in 2007 (or was it 2006?). Much has changed since back then, but I have a good idea that Megan and I will be friends for a very long time.