Well, my baby sister has an 18 year old “baby” as of Monday…and it sure has slipped up on the older adults in her life! Look at us as she celebrated her first Christmas…
She was such a little pixie elf…and look at her picking bluebonnets…she loves flowers and she would head straight for them always picking blooms for Mom…
When she was older, she spent weekends with us…of course, her favorite place to be was down on the river. Here we are with the twins one July 4th …
and Michael-Mike helped her catch her first perch! I don’t know who was more proud or excited…
And she was always so bold…she would catch minnows with her bare hands and pounce to grab little frogs! No fearful shrinking violet this one! She has always been brave about things she really wants to do… Look at this tricycle Uncle Mike bought for her…
Can you see the stick horse she has tied to the handlebar? She was already a horse lover at heart. She put on her little straw sombrero and rode the whole parade looking over her shoulder…
because her favorite part of the parade was behind her…
That’s her “I can’t contain myself…I’m so excited!” gesture…She was giddy over the horses! That was then. Look at her now… Fast forward a few years and my baby sister’s “baby” turned sixteen!
She celebrated that one with Willie Nelson at his big bash…
We had a hard time accepting the idea that she was sixteen…but EIGHTEEN!!! It is going to take some getting used to… Here she is last Christmas getting into her letter jacket…diving team at Incarnate Word High School…She will start her senior year this fall and in the blink of an eye she’ll be graduating…we are so proud of her and the most excellent young woman she is becoming.
Even though it seems rushed to us, she has really taken her time growing up and she has filled her life with good choices. And she has given us all eighteen years of joy. Happy Birthday, Baby!
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