A few days ago my soon-to-be-senior little sister asked me to take her senior pictures for her. This was a complete shock to me because the last I had heard about her senior pictures was that she and my dad were going to fly to Florida to have my cousin take them.
When she asked I was floored! I didn't think she really meant it until she started talking about her reasoning for not going to FL, it would be rushed, my mom and I wouldn't be able to go, she had ideas in mind of places here that she liked around town (the list went on..), and I couldn't help but give a little smirk and agree.
We got to our destination around 5:30pm, just as the sun was starting to set, which was perfect lighting for where we were. When I got out of the car and Keegs started pointing out the different places she wanted pictures taken at, it hit me. My little sister is a senior, she's graduating in May, she'll be going to college in a year from now!!! You know how parents always seem to say "Can you stay this size forever?" almost every year to you? Well that's how I feel about my little sister right now! In just two weeks she'll be walking into high school with a senior lanyard around her neck and will be the "older kids" at school! I want to freeze her right here and keep her as her 16-almost-17 year old self forever! But as I think about it I get excited too because I can't wait to see how our lives will change in these next few years.
We spent about 2 hours walking around downtown taking pictures and getting eaten alive by mosquitos, but the pictures are amazing. My sister is gorgeous and SO photogenic it's crazy. Here's a little sneak peek at some of her pictures :)
Another weird realization this week? Summer is over. I leave for college tomorrow afternoon. How weird is that?!? How I realized this, you ask? My best friend came home from her summer in New York City. After spending every summer together since I can remember it's become kind of a habit, so it's safe to say I was not ready her to be gone all summer. Although, since I visited her over a month ago all I've been looking forward to is her coming home at the end of the summer but I guess I didn't really put together that when she got here it would really be the END of summer. So yesterday when my mom and I went to pick her up I started thinking.. 'Today is Saturday, tomorrow is Sunday... Then it's Monday.. That is when I leave for college'... (Bare with me, I know the days of the week. Days just feel longer during the summer so you forget what day it is)
Thinking of this made me realize how fast this summer went by. I instantly thought of that first week I started babysitting Jack, then I thought of the random trips I took and thought how could it have passed by so quickly! If feels like just yesterday was May 27 and my friends and I were parading our way across the stage at graduation! As I babbled all of this to my mom she replied with a short answer, "Did you blink?". And I guess I did, I definitely didn't want to, but this summer is coming to an end quickly and as I try to squeeze in every last thing I want to do before I go I'm not going to let it just pass me by that fast again.
(Me, Rel, & Keegs at summer camp in 2004)
(The three of us dancing our last recital together- Spring 2011)
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