(Sorry for the terrible pictures, these were all taken with my phone)
This weekend, Joel and I were invited to our city’s annual Black and White Gala, which is a black tie fund raiser for charity. It’s held at the lovely Omni Hotel in Fort Worth, there’s live music, good food, dancing, and a boisterous live auction. We mostly wanted to go just for the opportunity to get dressed up and have a night out. I was super lucky and snagged my little black dress from modcloth.com for a steal!
Cassidy was fascinated while I was doing my hair, putting my makeup on, and picking out jewelry; she didn’t leave my side until it was time for us to go (honestly, she probably just wasn’t used to seeing her mommy in pretty makeup and nice clothes…she may not have even been sure it was ME!) 
You can see in the picture how she’s playing with my bracelet- this girl loves jewelry!
Although we didn’t win any bids (thank goodness- the item Joel was bidding on was a helmet and football signed by Johnny Football and it went for 10 grand! I can think of a LOT $10,000 will buy and none of it involves a football helmet…), we had a really good time. Joel got to mingle and exchange info with the congressman, which was exciting for us small town folks!
…a couple of nerds.
