On Facial Hair

Remember this guy?
Seen him lately?
I haven't, and I sure do miss him! 
Such a good-looking guy...
Sigh

I have, however, seen plenty of this guy.

He was apparently supposed to be the replacement for the guy shown above.

Not much of a trade, if you ask me.

There was a reason to his madness, though.  He was an extra in the Church's New Testament Video Project.  They are filming all of the stories in the New Testament.  Jef got to be part of a lot of cool scenes, including the Sermon on the Mount and Peter's Denial.  So, if your Sunday School teacher is showing a New Testament video in class, then look for this guy. He had a great time, and really loved it.

But then he trimmed his beard a little,
and thought he looked totally different.
He was quite offended when I said it pretty much looked the same. (But really, what do girls know about facial hair, anyway?)

This was my favorite of the beard phases.

I could have survived with this one.

At least it was better than what came next!

They finished up with filming the first week in October, so he was done with the beard, and didn't need it anymore, but it took him days and days to get around to doing anything about it. He was just too emotionally attached. And then he couldn't just shave it off all at once. He had to do it in phases. So he wore this look for a whole day. Definitely not my favorite look for him.

And this look only lasted long enough to take the picture.

I told him it was wrong.  

Just wrong...

And so is this.
Definitely not the guy I married.

And this is pretty much what he looks like right now. He won't let me cut his hair too short, because they're filming again in the Spring, and he doesn't want to be too far behind in the hair-growing department. So he still doesn't look like the guy he used to be, but at least I can see his face. He's already talking about growing his beard back again to get a good start on Spring. But I told him he had to wait until the baby was born so we could get one good family picture before he disappears again.