Random Photos That I love

Today my oldest Caleb brought home two things from school to look over. Drivers Education Forms and the forms to order a Class Ring. I don't know why these two things suddenly hit home for me; maybe because I remember the delicious anticipation of getting my class ring like it was yesterday. And that I got my drivers license on Groundhogs Day 1983. Suddenly, it just all seemed real to me, that he is growing up. Growing up...heh..that's pretty funny seeing that he is 6'3.

I suddenly found myself thinking of this photo. It was taken on Caleb's first day of second grade and Joey's first day of 4K. This photo was hand printed by me in photo school on delicious black and white fiber paper and I love it so. I love everything about it because of all the things I remember so well about their childhoods...Caleb's obsession with Lion King, Joey and his Hot Wheels addiction, the Buzz Lightyear lunch box, the totally cute wedge hair cuts that someday they will hate me for, how they used to be tow heads and how Caleb has his arm slung protectively around his little brother.

They really do grow up in a freaking blink of an eye. But when I look at this photo I remember so much about them at this age. This, my friends, is the beauty of a photograph.