"Way Back Wednesday"

I just had to get in on the fun of "Way Back Wednesday". I love what everyone else has done on their blogs. I kind of have two for today, a true "way back" and a semi "way back". At first I didn't think I could do a true "way back" because I don't have my childhood pictures, but then my mom sent me one I can use. So first I'll do the original and then I'll do the semi.

In Heather's blog she asked what our favorite outfits used to be back in the day. I had typed in response that I had this bright multi-colored shirt that in the print you could make out some sort of animal, like a lion or zebra or something. Well when my mom read my comment she knew exactly what shirt I was talking about so she found a picture to send me. Since she knew just what I was talking about from that description you know I must have worn it A LOT! She said I wore that thing all the time. She didn't know why because it was huge on me, but I absolutely loved that shirt. Here's a picture of me wearing it. You can't see it in the picture, but Heather and I are both standing on just one leg like the flamingos in the background. Do I not look HUGE standing next to Heather?
I am the younger sister, but she looks like a mini me. I don't think my giant shirt was helping matters any! Don't you just love our awesome hair, man we were so cool.

Now for the semi "way back" story. Apparently I become easily attached to clothing. When I was a junior in high school (16 years old) I had another shirt that I absolutely loved. In fact I think it used to be Heather's shirt. I ended up wearing this shirt for picture day my junior year and my mom had the picture hanging on her picture wall in our family room. Okay, now fast forward 5 years to when I was 21 and started dating Jared. One night Jared and I went out on a date and I happened to be wearing this shirt (surprise, surprise). Well, he being the only observant man in the whole wide world recognized it from the picture on my mom's wall. He asked me "isn't that the shirt you're wearing in that one picture?", to which I hesitantly responded "yes". So then he asked "wasn't that taken like 5 years ago?", again completely embarrassed I answered "yes". He just started cracking up, he couldn't believe I still had the shirt and that it still fit. Needless to say, I made sure I never wore this shirt on a date of ours again. I didn't get rid of it though, oh no I still have it. I don't really wear it any more, but every once in awhile when we were first married I would put it on and he would just laugh and laugh and laugh. I pulled it out of the closet today to take a picture of myself in it and as soon as Addison saw it she grabbed it and said "niiice" while trying to put it on herself. She loves it. I put it on her and she just kept touching it because it's kind of silky material (I don't know what it's made of as the words on the tag have worn completely off) and saying ''niiice" or "be-a-bowl" (beautiful). You see it's so in style still that even the next generation is going to want to wear it. I think I might just save it for Addison! Anyway, here are the pictures of me wearing it. The first one is my junior year in high school (1996) and the


other one was taken today, 11 years later. Keep in mind that I am 5 months pregnant, I don't normally look like fat girl in little shirt when I wear this (or perhaps I do and that's why Jared always laughs so hard). Regardless of what I look like though, doesn't the shirt still look absolutely fabulous after all this time? Why wouldn't I wear something that still looks this good? =) All right, all right, I'll hang it up for good, but first take a look at Addison pulling off this timeless look!