Happy Birthday Mama T

Today is my mother's birthday. She is a great lady, let me tell ya. She's been a beautiful blessing on this journey through my own life. Really I've "never really needed" her as much as I have in the past year. While yes, she has provided me with everything I could ever dream of and hope for I would be okay without all that stuff but almost a year ago when I found out I had PCOS and then had to go get all this dumb medical testing done she was there, just like any other mother would be. The difference is, I cried for multiple days after finding out sometimes "publicly" sometimes just to myself at night, but the one time she actually saw me cry about how crappy I thought my life would become of PCOS she knew exactly what I needed to hear and although I don't know what those words are now I know it was great.

Another reason why she's great is because this last fall when I wasn't really sure where exactly life was taking me and I wanted to drop out, she supported me and although I'm not sure if she was really on board with it at first, she let me do what I thought was right for myself and let me figure out where exactly I wanted to go in life/what I wanted to do. And look at me now, I'm happier then I've ever been in a long time and it's because of the support I know I have at home.


You know back in this post where I really finally figured out my parents were proud of me, well there really wasn't any defining moment for myself where I finally figure out that mom was proud of me but some time last fall it finally happened and I got over the whole "I don't measure up to my siblings" thing and just learned to love myself and believe them when they actually said they were proud of me.

Us on move in day 2 years ago , also the only picture I have of us. 

So lady, Happy Birthday! I hope your day was great, and all you could wish for for the start of your 52nd year of living! 

Pram 2012

Well since I don't really have anything awesome to post about right now, i decided I'd post the pictures of Elk River's prom a week or two ago. My friend Jake asked me to take pictures of his group and boy did I not know what I was getting myself into. It was like chasing a class of kindergartener's around and trying to get them to pay attention to me. 

Even more drumline

So now that I've posted some photos of drumline I'm starting to confuse myself on what I have and haven't posted so I'm just going to do one giant dump of drumline and then start posting other things. 

What's that, MORE DRUMLINE?

What I know to be True

Lately I've been thinking, it's really interesting to me how people can have one thing in common and that will all of a sudden become a starting point to a friendship.

Within the past few months I've made some pretty great friendships based on photography, music, and surprisingly work.

I'm really just thankful. I've never really talked about religion and I've also struggled with faith for a while in my life but right now I'm thankful for God (or at least a greater power then myself) for placing me in the places I've been in the last 6 months. To be able to meet so many great people and start some really great friendships based on that placement.

It's kind of weird how easy it is for me to make friends combined with how shy I am.

I feel like if you can have a good laugh with someone there's potential to become good friends. I also think it's interesting how after you become friends and start talking on a regular basis you find out that you have a lot more in common then you thought.

Another thing about that, I think that whether you consciously think about it you're attracted to people that are similar to you but at the same time have to have at least one or two friends that are so ridiculously different than you that your friendship just works.