Nathan and his Guitar

Sneaking around the house while they're asleep

At the homeschool conference today, I saw a family I wanted to introduce myself to. They had no idea who I was, but I knew exactly who they were. In fact, I had been at their house in the middle of the night while they were all asleep and they never knew I was there.

Before you start thinking I was up to trouble, let me quickly explain.

A few months ago, I attended my second-to-last homebirth. The couple who was having the baby were renting an apartment attached to someone's house. I arrived at the birth around 1:30am (first time showing up before the midwife!), the baby was born about 2:15am, and I left around 5:15am.  For the midwife and I to use the bathroom, we had to go into the family's house so we were quietly sneaking around the landlord's downstairs.

As I was sneaking through the downstairs to get to the bathroom, I passed the kitchen table. It was a looooong kitchen table with many seats. Then, I noticed that at each spot was a stack of books and other stuff (similar to what my mom does - if you leave something on her counter, it ends up at your spot at breakfast the next morning). I recognized most of the books as homeschooling books and thought, "Oh, cool!"

Then, at the two-week visit after the baby was born, we went into the downstairs to take pictures of everyone. I saw a picture of the homeschooling family and recognized them. I saw them today and introduced myself.

After I clarified why I had been in his house, the dad started laughing and called his wife over, "Hey, honey, this girl was at our house in the middle of the night a few months ago!" Her face was priceless. :-D

Happy Anniversary!

Happy 20th Anniversary to Mommy and Daddy!

Twenty-years ago today, May 22, 1992, Mommy and Daddy got married in Connecticut, two or three days after graduating from the Coast Guard Academy. That night, Mom told Dad that he was stuck with her for life because she was never going through the hustle and stress of a wedding again. They stood by that vow! :-D

Tonight, they're going out to dinner at a *very* fancy place. In fact, it's so fancy that the place called Dad to remind him that there's a dress code and to check on what he was planning on wearing...

(Sorry the pictures aren't good quality...)

Isn't my mom gorgeous?

Daddy Love

Graduation

I am an official high school graduate!!!!!

I don't have time to describe the graduation, but I'll let the pictures do the talking. Warning: there's a lot of pics!

Graduation set-up

Me and Daddy - note the balloons in the corner :-D

like my heels? I was 6"4 because of them :-D

Many thanks to my wonderful teachers and parents!

On stage

Oh boy!

congrats, Mom and Dad! One down, six more to go!

Joy Anna really liked Uncle Steven

cool dude ;-D

Grammy and Grandpa - one down, nine to go

best friends - Brittany and Danielle :-D

Grandma, Aunt Tara, Mom, and Joy Anna

Isaac and his best friend

Daddy and Grandpa

Promise and Grace

Grandma

Joy Anna really liked my outfit

The wonderful Aunt Tara

family :-D

More Brittany :-D

Happy grad :-D

Proud parents

Trouble waiting to happen :-D

cake

more cake :-D

me and the wonderful Riah, whose wedding I'll be shooting in a couple weeks :-D

The three stooges

My last doula client came to the party - it was awesome seeing how big her baby's gotten!

Graduation Practice...

...was today!

That means tomorrow is GRADUATION!!!!! *Yippee!*

Here's a picture from today. I'm holding a fake diploma so that's why my hands look weird. :-D

Guess what?!

Guess what?! High school. Is. Done!!!!!!!!

I graduate with 21 other seniors next Saturday at 2:30. I can't wait!