Blast from the Past

So, it's always fun when you are home for the holidays to look at pictures of when you were younger. I recently had a birthday, and my father put a slide show together of such images. Here are a few of them. I apologize in advance to my sisters if some of these are considered "embarrassing".

My favorite has to be the one where I am trying to pry open the Pepsi can with my teeth. Oh, if only I could have stayed so innocent. Then maybe I wouldn't be so addicted to Diet Coke. The other funny thing is that I think my mother still has that awful blue and pink winter coat in our closet. Yes, I was stylin' back then! Overall, it's nice to look back and see how cute you were as a baby, how weird and awkward you were as an adolescent (I left those photos out on purpose BTW), and how much you miss those times when you had absolutely no responsibilities. Still, there are some perks to getting older. Hopefully, I've learned from my mistakes and can say that I'm a little smarter than I was back then. That is the hope. In the end, all I can say is that I am so grateful to have been raised by such good parents and that I had the companionship of two great sisters. You have made me who I am today, and I can't imagine having gone through it all without you.