us, however, she had help from her co-worker --

Kellen is quite the ... vibrant fellow. He loved Bookworm's outfit, and has opined that she'll be "make it big" someday. He could just tell by her flair for the original. He had flair too...We had to pry him off that table to get the "saner" picture with Shannon.

Gotta love staff with a positive attitude like these folks.

After dinner, we went back to the room, watched a movie or two and went to bed... to prepare ourselves for the day.

So... I armed myself with three projects this trip. I worked on Must Have at the Hotel, and am now a the bust darts for the front.

I tried working the 9 - 5 socks. After several rounds, it looks like this:

Frankly,grown-up fancy dress, let me style her hair and put make up on her face, and put high heeled shoes on to go to the last dance of the year at school.

As moms are wont to do, I took a slew of pictures. There was the obligatory formal posed seated shot

and the full length standing shot

And the one of her shoes up close (did I really buy her those heels???)

And of course.... the shot she likes best:

On Friday, I watched her walk across the stage -- to receive the official certificate saying she's been promoted from Middle School to High School. I tried valiantly to photograph that. This was as good as I could get.

She was all done by then. (what, you want to see the stage shot?