A sister is a little bit of childhood that can never be lost. ~Marion C. Garretty

 I was blessed with three crazy sisters, and we've had so many good times together. I don't know what I'd do without my little sister Emma, who over the last few years has become one of my best friends. I'm so happy to have that little high school freshman as a role model, someone who I can talk to and actually learn from. Love this girl!

  "Erm" finishing her cross country race..I was injured this year and was named "team photographer" for the season, and watching her run those races made me soo glad that all I had to do was take pictures

3 wishes

If you could have any 3 wishes, what would they be? Trying not to be superficial with this this prompt, I'll admit was a bit of challenge.

You may say that I'm a dreamer...

My word for 2011 is Dream. Maybe it started with my best friend telling me I had the most dreams and aspirations out of anyone he knew, or my mom slipping in the phrase "dream big" anywhere she can, including my Christmas presents; a "dream big" laptop skin and Dream perfume (she was never one for subtlety).  Capturing my cousin's Caroline, Reese, and Luke's  many expressions pushed me to dive into my my dreams rather than watching them from afar. It's easy to say "I want to be a photographer when I grow up," its off in the distance, "when I grow up" seems like a world away to me. It's a lot harder to put myself to the challenge by replacing "later" with "right now." It forces me to push myself past my comfort level and start making my dreams a reality now.

"I believe in the power of telling our stories – the stories of how we muster up our courage and leap and dance and breathe our way into our creative dreams." -Kelly Rae Roberts